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I had this round my tree this year, Its a good use for a christmas train I think!!

YEs looks like a older s and t battery charger. As it’s only a battery charger it can charge any 12v battery as you’ve found out. it would probably have been used to power anything but a track circuit, as I can’t think of any track circuit s that’s run off 12v it more than likely powered a signal, the battery bank providing upto 8 hours standby in the power failed.

Depend on what charger you have, some charge via the balance plug, others via the output lead. if the battery’s is in situ it’s easier to run a 4 pile and 2 pole extender lead out from the battery. You can buy leads ready made up on eBay, so you can have a short lead on the battery vehicle, And a longer lead to connect the charger and battery

Lgb locos draw 0.5 to 1 amp per motor, Lgb used to provide a 0-24v dc 1 amp controller as standard. as for radio control I use 3s lipo approx 12v on all my Lgb and it runs lovely. a 12v car or lead acid battery will easily be fine to run your loco.

I know of one instant that relates to the folding down of a signal is service. its wasn’t a full blown spring loaded post, but was a dorman light unit, that came unclipped inside the signal head and fell over. the lamp was still proved , and alight and pointing upto the sky, the driver of the train that found simply approached the signal at linespeed Andy found it missing. there has now been a national effort to modify and check all the affected signal to ensure no repeat happens.

This may be really simple, but have you tried re-binding the tx and rx, but ensuring that the throttle is centred? Using rc gear I have before turned on transmitters and had the control knobs and in the wrong place, it made control very tricky. might be worth trying, as it’s quick and easy to do dan

You wouldn’t be the first to use servos attached To a normal controller, i havent done it personally, but i have heard of it being done before. the main advantage of doing it, apart from the wireless radios control, is the output is pure dc, as electronic speed controllers normally put out PWM aka pulse width modulation. It means you can easily run any dc or dcc fitted loco, and have a wireless controller, DAN

Boat and car ones can be half speed reverse. Make sure you check before use i use this link to use aircraft stuff and make it bidirectional http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/satr/2point4GHz.htm

Just seen what your proposing it’s easily doable, all you do is connect the output from a speed controller aka an esc to the rails. i did the same for g scale the only difference was I could use 24v instead if 12v. It worked really well and give me a cheap wireless throttle I used rc plane stuff from hobbyking, just need a brushed esc, and one that can do full speed reverse, or a servo driving a dpdt switch to swap,polarity I only gave up on the idea as in the garden it’s better to go deadrail Andy fit the rc gear into the loco dan

Yep the yellow thing is for asdo automated selective door opening, they get get programmed with a laptop, fitted and then they tell any train fitted with asdo how many door and what side to open the pictures also shows a back drive attached to the point, the purpose being to move the rear of the switch over, Normally its mounted in between the running rails in 3rd rails areas , and outside when there isn’t no 3rd rail dan

First of they both run of dc, the one with 3 connections is a solenoid type, theres 2 solenoids with a common return terminal hence the 3 connections the other type is a motor that drives a toothed shaft which does the movement , just reverse the polarity to swap direction. The lgb unit takes ac, and converts it to dc via diode and feeds the half wave dc to the motor. the 3 connection type are pretty old, and we’re superseded buy the 2 wire type and it’s a good idea to open them- 4 screws to check the internals,

Gillingham Dorset tunnel is at buckhorn western,

Here’s a link to a new axle and gear for the consolidation , it’s in the Bachmann USA store, I'm not sure how easy it it to fit, but it will be a big strip down job https://estore.bachmanntrains.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=69_142&products_id=10285&zenid=ajhc2hucjine9pafrbn1eqj763

What Bachmann locos are they? Some types of Bachmann locos do split their main drive gears over time Its usually the consolidation loco this happens on Dan

It’s perfectly possible to hire loco from one company, and driver from another, so long as the company whose has requested the move agree the costs, You can even hire drivers for short bits of certain moves, the move you saw saw would have been requested by the owner of the emu, to send it off to a suitably licensed railway scrapyard companies such as , ROG, euroPhoenix , WCRC, LSL DRS will be happy to help, for a suitable fee