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I second this. I have been attracted to O gauge but always managed to resist but I have three reasons to change my mind: 1) I knew the Tottenham Gas works well as my father worked just over the road for a number of years and then we moved and I commuted past every day in the early 1970's until it closed. I did try try to purchase one of their loco's but I think they all went for scrap. 2) for a year I worked at Reading Signal Works but I was in the Computer Division and it was a serious disciplinary matter if we attempted to go into the yard so I only ever saw No 20 from the station. and 3) I volunteer on the Colne Valley Railway and the 88DS belonging to one of our members is usually stabled next to a Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0 and a couple of weeks ago, for our 50th Anniversary weekend the 88DS and Austerity were on display together in the station.

Having some experience in this field it is indeed a minefield and I wouldn't attempt to give any advice on a forum like RMWeb. All the topics: copyright, trademarks, patents and "passing off" fall under the general heading of Intellectual Property and each has it's own rules. The British Library web-site has some useful guides for all IPp issues.

If you search for pictures of the last freight working to Chiltern Court (the siding off Baker Street) you will see the brake van which was used on that working. Although I have not carried out much research into LT freight I would be interested to know more about this vehicle. Perhaps to run behind my Heljan Met loco.

When I received the e-mail about the LNER livery I thought great I'll contact Accurascale about changing my order. However having now consulted the RCTS green volume on this particular sub-type I will stay with my pre-order of 68535 in BR Plain Black, with Early Emblem and backdate it. I'm not 100% worried about details, as long as it looks correct it will be OK with me but that cab roof is out of period. Well done to Accurascale for researching and making this variant and I hope it is a success for them.

I did that on my previous layout. I purchased a Hornby Railmaster setup when it first came out as it reduced the entry cost of DCC (including accessory control) down to a reasonable price and I had a redundant PC to run it on. At that time I had very few loco's which were DCC ready, so converted the couple that were. The 8 points on the layout were DCC operated. I liked being able to operate the points from a panel but totally disliked controlling trains via a mouse. So I decided not to proceed with converting the loco's to DCC and ran the layout on DC still retaining DCC panel control of the points. Fast forward to today with a house move, retirement and a change of era for the layout. All the loco's for my layout are DCC chipped and I have a entry level controller. However this does not have accessory control so points are DC or hand controlled.

I have just worked on a layout: That started as DCC Converted to DC Reconverted to DCC Taken back to DC As the other posts have pointed out it's not too difficult. The main planning concerns how many trains at he same time you need to run on the the DC layout. If it's just one then the wiring is simple as all tracks can be live from a single source, which can be DC then DCC. If , on DC, you have passing loops, dual lines, sidings where you leave loco's etc.. then you need isolated areas with separate feeds and this was where the first conversion from DCC to DC took time, these had to be made and feeder cables inserted. The other two conversions were easy as it was just a matter of using connectors between various wires. Three lessons I learnt: Use two colour cables: red for one DC feed and black for the other, this layout had all red cables! Label all your cables so you know what feeds what. Avoid common return on the DC layout. It may save time and wire but stores up issues for the future. The layout I referred to above is not mine but my own layout is switchable between DC and DCC so all the points made in posts in the thread apply.

This thread reminded me that down the back of the sofa (well actually on shelf behind my layout). I have this Found in a charity shop over 40 years ago. Details of a couple of the models : https://www.scalemates.com/kits/kleeware-3-66-coronation-coach-and-hansom-cab--1225720 So dates from 1955 and to 1:87 scale. This is the Coronation coach. A curiosity that I will probably never get around to building unless I get he urge to build a HO scale Wild West Layout.

Don't forget that if you are modelling an urban area trams might be an option. http://www.kwtrams.co.uk/product-category/oo-gauge-kits has anice range. They also do some horse drawn items http://www.kwtrams.co.uk/product-category/cars-lorries-people Some of these moulds are rather old as I built some of these about 45 years ago.

Ratio make this in OO - is this the sort of thing you are looking for? https://peco-uk.com/products/coaling-stage?_pos=3&_sid=769474523&_ss=r An internet search will bring up a number of images of such structures but no drawings

Until I read the later post with EXPONG as ExpoNG I thought this was an exhibition related to the comments often made on RMWeb about the washing habits of certain exhibition visitors.

That was Global Crossing. I managed my employers contract with them for data services. As I result I attended many meetings in No1 as as US company they liked to entertain their clients in rooms overlooking the Thames and the Tower of London this disappointed me as I would have preferred to watch trains go by on the other side. We had about a dozen sites served by GC and I attended the commissioning of a number of these and got to chat to the engineers. In conversation I discovered most of the engineers had Personal Track Safety qualifications as GC through a takeover had acquired the privatised BR telecoms business and they were regularly called out to mend faults in the fibre cables that were trackside.

During my employment with Barclay's that I referred to earlier one of our tasks on the evening shift was to take the back up tapes from the City of London to a site just off Tottenham Court Road for safe storage. This was had to be done by taxi as allegedly the attempts to take them on the underground led to corruption of the the data. It many years later that I found out that I had visited one of the "secret" deep level bunkers built in WW2.

I got the same and discovered that you have to scroll down. Unfortunately their web site has a number of glitches which certainly show up on a Android tablet

As this RMweb my old computer story brings together computers and railways. In 1971 I joined Barclays Bank's computing department and at that time it was merging it's systems with those of Martin's Bank which it had recently taken over. The Martin's staff told us that a few years earlier they had installed some new disks drives. These were the 14 in platter type and I remember we were told during training about how the read write heads floated at a height of less than a human hair diameter above the platter. Martin's discovered that they had a very high failure rate. It was then realised that the data centre was in Willesden and the vibration from passing trains was causing the failures.

I won't go into too many details in case the Mods think I an selling through this post. For two sperate 7 day auctions I have listed a limited edition train pack and neither time did it sell in that form. So I have now listed the rolling stock separately, without the box, certificate etc. Guess what today (with about 24 hours to go) the bids have now exceeded the previously asked price for the set. I guess this is not one person buying the whole set. Also the views for the set, fully described, were very low, whereas the separate items have many more views. I will report tomorrow giving more details and the final outcome.

My go to sites for standards and information tend to be: British Museum British Library The National Archives Archives and Records Association ( https://www.archives.org.uk/ ) They all have downloadable and free, resources. As I am a volunteer museum curator I have access to a various other sources, included a network of others who can often help. As to books as they are very specialised, and people buy them on expenses, they tend to be extremely expensive. For example https://www.routledge.com/Conservation-of-Books/Bainbridge/p/book/9780367754907 at £190 although the ebook is only £38

As I am now on my PC I can check it, search Duck, Mallard, Train on Getty images and you mainly get feathered creatures but you also get this https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/class-steam-locomotive-mallard-with-a-lord-nelson-class-news-photo/90748423 even worse indexing than I remembered, But returning to my original point it's at the bottom where it shows you the search terms: "Mallard Duck" and "Aquatic Organism"

One of the big picture libraries, I think it wasGetty, has a picture of an A4 Pacific catalogued under ducks - yes it's Mallard.

Five years after there was no reply to these questions I have to post the same question after some years in store my Bo-Bo now has home but with a 21pin decoder installer I have the same problem.

Adding to my own reply. Having nearly finished the quayside diorama section on my layout, I found I had nothing suitable to run on it. So after many years of putting the purchase off, today, I finally purchased a J70 Tram loco.

The Colne Valley Railway museum has been given a large donation of model railway items from circa the 1950's. We will be displaying these next year but they do give an example of how modelling took place in the days before injection moulded plastic took over. My first examples are of wagon building The components for a wagon Grey printing added at least some PO wagons or you could go full colour. More from the collection as I photograph and catalogue it.

As advertised in the latest BRM obviously the Danbury Mint know what discerning and knowledgeable readers that esteemed journal has.

My heart says Yes to this as what could be more suited to a model set in late wartime East Anglia? My head asks questions: Actually my layout is in 1945 and most (if not al) the loco's had come off loan by then and were on mainland Europe I would guess this will not be a cheap purchase and every pound spent on this loco will be a pound not spent on other items to finish the layout, or other things. Anyway I guess the lead time on this will mean we will not see it for some time so things might chagne in the future.

This may have been said earlier but the CDL questions is not just about people falling from trains. Over the years I have been on a number of railtours (including one earlier this year) where during a station stop that was for operational, rather than passenger, purposes people have open or attempted to open doors to ask "is this the train for xxx?". They then don't close the doors. This can lead to trains departing with doors not fully closed. In the case of the tour this year, which had WCR stock, the doors had all the bolts set so the attempt to open the doors failed.

I wasn't suggesting importing but rather just commenting of the price differential.