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    I am hoping to fit a Hornby Eurostar train (including divisable coaches) with interior lighting an passengers but am having trouble getting the coaches apart. I have tried the old trick of sliding thin card down either side of the body and chassis, but they refuse to come apart. I have tried the Hornby forum but didn't get a reply. Has anyone else ever done it before? I cannot see anything holding the two parts together.

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    We were lucky to have "The Friends Of Crystal Palace Subway",  who are involved in the restoration of this iconic grade II listed structure , under Crystal Palace Parade in South London, visit our clubroom on the 10th of August 2021. They were here to inspect our model of the Crystal Palace High Level station, which closed in 1954 and was demolished in 1961. They were particularly keen to see our representation of the subway. I think the model, still very much "work in progress", made an impression.

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    Point Motors for Garden Layouts.

    Any suggestions for suitable point motors for garden layouts please? I generally use PECO point motors for exhibition layouts, but don't think they would be suitable for outdoor use mounted underneath baseboards. I am concerned about water getting in, causing short circuits and corrosion. I don't have any problem with surface mounted motors as this is not going to be my usual fine scale modelling (it's really an excuse to give my locos a good run!). I'm using analogue not DCC.

     

    Many thanks,

    Gary

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    2. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      Personally if I was designing a garden railway, I'd try my best to avoid having any points outside, leaving them for undercover areas of the layout.

    3. Spam Can Man

      Spam Can Man

      Thanks for the advice both of you. I will try the Garden Railways Forum. Unfortunately, I cannot avoid having some of the pointwork out in the open and quite a distance away from the operating area. I had been wondering about the PECO P-11 surface mounting point motors. The baseboards a quite thick, 3 layers of 18mm marine ply laminated with boat builders adhesive, so any under baseboard types would need long operating rods. The Conrad point motors looked promising as they are more or less sealed pre-wired units, but are very hard to get hold of these days.

    4. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      TBH I've found the PL11s quite delicate, even for indoor use - every now and then the cover comes off and parts fly out! Apart from a couple of restricted locations, I've usually switched to using the Gaugemaster/SEEP equivalent.

  4. Spam Can Man

    Hi Phil.

     

    Just came across your name while trawling across the RM website regarding the viaduct layout built for what was then the British Railways Property. The layout was built by us at the Southwark Model Railway Club, consisting of 3 baseboards depicting a double track viaduct showing scenes in Victorian times, the 1960/70 and refurbished arches. The layout was built to fit into a trailer into which the public could walk around with two hidden loops at each end so that a train could go backwards and forwards. The trailer was usually accompanied by a person dressed up as a smiley railway arch known as "Andy Arches".

    The layout came back to us when Railtrack took over and found they didn't need it any more. We had to move to a new clubroom just over two years ago, so we ended up selling the layout to a family in Bexleyheath who plan to make it into a loft layout. We had started to build a fourth board incorporating a canal (loosely based on the Surrey canal at Deptford. I do have some photographs that I took of the layout over the years. I'll try and see if I can find them for you.

     

    All the best,

     

    Gary

    1. PhilJ W

      PhilJ W

      Thanks for that information. I still have some of the BRB publicity material dating from the mid/late 80's that was distributed when the layout was on display. 

    2. Spam Can Man

      Spam Can Man

      I Phil,

       

      Please find attached (if I've done it correctly! I'm still pretty new to this website) of some photographs I took of our Andy Arches layout (as it became known). The photographs were taken prior to the layout being put onto our club's website for the purpose of selling. We did an exhibition at Bexleyheath a couple of years ago when someone inquired about the layout and bought it. Unfortunately, due to moving to a new clubroom, we didn't have the storage space for it. We had hoped to extend the layout into a large oval continuous run, loosely based on the London to Greenwich line with a representation of Spa Road station and Deptford station and possibly the lift bridge at Deptford Creek. But it never happened!

      All the best!

       

      Gary

      andy arches1.jpg

      arches2.jpg

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