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https://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/H05429/2020-07-13 I assume that this a Network Rail train given that it doesn't actually go anywhere, but what is it for? Similar services appear once or twice each day on Open Train Times and is usually cancelled (though not yet cancelled today). The train is described as a diesel loco with tonne load and leaves Kingsland Road for Temple Meads, where it reverses and runs via Bath to Chippenham. It then reverses and runs back to Temple Meads. It then reverses and runs to Westbury, before reversing and heading to St Andrews Junction for a crew change (with stops of under a minute for 'other operating reasons' at Clifton Down and Avonmouth). The train then travels to Cardiff Central, where it reverses, and begins to travel around Wales for most of the early morning. After a crew change at Newport, the train heads to Hereford for another crew change (booked on the URL - Up Relief Line?). It then reverses at Moreton-on-Lugg and returns to Hereford for a much longer stop (70 mins) for 'other operational reasons' on the DRL. The train then passes back through Wales and the Severn Tunnel, before reversing at Weston-Super-Mare and finally returns whence it came.

"There are so many massive reasons to oppose it: the ecological devastation that building the line is wreaking; the vast slug of carbon that is going into the atmosphere from its construction, and that it is planned to run mainly on fossil power." I may be wrong, but I would be willing to put money on the fact that the author, or at least many of their supporters, are also opposed to using nuclear power. Some of them are probably opposed to wind as well. I want to drop fossil fuels as soon as possible but it becomes very hard when so-called environmentalists reject every practical alternative, often with little or no scientific justification.

Why do they need to be approved separately? 25kV AC through OHLE is 25kV AC through OHLE isn't it?

25mm is workable. Do you know what it would be without modification? I'd be willing to try and take it off, but how much difference would it make? I like the idea but I'm definitely not confident enough to try it out (I'd probably end up having to buy another turntable after ruining both of the originals). That's odd. The image used on Hatton's website says that 'Adaptor plates are included for Code 75 and Code 100 rail'.

It is frustrating that the Peco turntable is so deep. It seems to do everything else well and is relatively cheap so I had considered putting a whole and fitting it. The trouble is that I have no clearance under the baseboard so it can't be deeper than 12mm unless I build up the ground level and make a whole in that. The issue is the 31mm depth, which would see the turntable sit 19mm above baseboard height The turntable would fit but the route leading up to it wouldn't. However, I have just realised that the 31mm must refer to the depth from the bottom of the well to the top of the guard rails (for packing purposes). Does anybody know the depth from the bottom of the well to the top of the rails? To save a separate post later on, how many adaptor plates are included for code 100 and are these available separately?

I believe (though maybe I'm confused) that one of the layouts at the WoR Virtual Exhibition was a BR blue GCML layout, and that they had looked at the traffic flows on alternative routes to see what might have been able to use the GCML. The only problems are that I can't remember the name of the layout or whether it was another closed line instead of the GCML. https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/virtual-exhibition-layouts//charwelton-into-the-80s And here's their thread:

It's in bold because the first 4 are yes/no conditions which need to be met for the turntable to do its job, whereas 5 and 6 are to determine the best of the options meeting these criteria, with 5 being more important that 6 (as long as there are exits at least as frequently as on the Hornby R070).

I've pondered a few options on turning locos for a while, but I have decided that now is the time to install a turntable. I would like suggestions for a turntable which is suitable given my criteria: 1) 16.5mm track gauge 2) Long enough to turn an A4 (and maybe a Standard Class 9F in the future). I believe that any turntable with a deck of 250mm or more should do the job 3) Surface mounted 4) Functioning electrical connections 5) As cheap as possible 6) It would also be nice to have closely spaced exit roads, but this is a secondary consideration The following are not important: 1) Scale (H0 vs 00) 2) Motors. My points are still manual and are likely to stay that way for some time. As a result, I have no issues with a manual turntable. 3) Prototype fidelity Thanks in advancee for any advice.

Would you rather: Enter an auction at £72.00 and 3 days left? Buy it now at £120.00? Buy it now in a box for £140.00? Enter an auction with the price at £2,648.00 and 5 days left?

Is there a specific subject line needed to enter?

What proportion of seats on heritage lines and railtours should be 1st class? I am imagining that for most railtours the answer will be very high in order to justify a premium price tag, whereas on heritage lines it would be very low in order to maximise capacity. I am talking mainly about using BR Mk1s, with perhaps some GWR coaches if they are available cheaply. I am looking at a rake of 2 on my heritage line (representing 4, unless I end up with a B-set) and a rake of 4 for railtours (representing roughly 8). Any suggestions for suitable formations?

And the brand is listed as Hornby.

You should also inform them that the county council's former meeting place now serves as the highest court of appeal for 13 nations and several other territories across 6 continents. Because I feel obliged to keep the thread on track, here's some relevant news: https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/hs2/hs2-announces-500-new-jobs-30-06-2020/

I've found them now. I don't know whether its what you were referring to but there were a pair of clips on the lower (plastic) chassis which I had assumed were part of the way the plastic and metal chassis parts were clipped together. I've managed to insert the pickups and connect them to the motor. The electrical side is now working. It's one formerly working model which has been out of use for a long time due to a broken right hand valve gear and sticking driving wheels (which turned out to be the pin connecting the broken valve gear to the central driving wheel, which had moved out of position and was catching on the chassis). I just need to find a replacement for the X1282 valve gear (I can only find one, and that's from a slightly suspicious ebay seller) and then it should be ready to go.

Can anybody help with this? Further reading seems to confirm that there is some sort of socket on the side of the chassis, but I still can't work out where they are.

I am trying to reassemble the remains of my old Fowler 4P no.42308, which I believe is R.055. From the service sheet it appears that there are contacts which clip into the sides of the chassis. I can't see anything on the model that would suggest how to do this. Does anybody have experience (and preferably photographs) of how this works? Thanks in advance.

I think that must be the case as none of the obvious models seem to share it. It surprises me but I'm not complaining as the standard 0-4-0 would never run as well.

I agree that its a good chassis for a little loco. As for scale, I would imagine that the standard 0-4-0 would have been the obvious option for a standardised chassis, but if for whatever reason they were more committed to keeping the correct number of axles on Toby than the class 40/37 then they did have an option available. On the service sheet the Electrotren models have only three spaces for wheelsets, not the four that Toby has.

This is a question asked out of curiosity rather than for any real purpose, as I have no intention of altering Toby. Does Toby share a chassis with any other loco? It is much smaller than the standard 0-6-0 chassis used on Thomas, with wheels closer in size to the standard 0-4-0. I've had a look at the service sheet but there doesn't appear to be a part number for the chassis. Surely Hornby didn't go to the expense of designing a new chassis just for Toby when a standard 0-6-0 under an oversized body or a standard 0-4-0 under the actual bod would have sufficed (remembering that the wheels are hidden unless you are at track level and that Hornby's accuracy standards for this range were quite low - the class 37 standing in for a 40 springs to mind). I'd be interested to see if anybody knows of other locos with this chassis, and if it is unique why Hornby would have produced it.

There is a table about 1/2 way down with the distribution in 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_31#Operation Others will be able to provide more detailed information but my understanding is that they took on a variety of duites (e.g. ECS moves between Paddington and Old Oak Common, Passenger trains in the South West, and various freight workings).

I understand what is required for stay alives in a general sense, but I was asking if anybody knew whether there was a resistor built into the circuit board (so that I wouldn't need to add another one) as well as questions about compatability with RM and capacitance. In theory I could buy a multimeter, measure the resistance of the loco, find out what votalge is required to keep the decoder alive, then substitute into V=V0e^(-t/RC) and rearange for C but: a) I hoped that somebody would already know what capacitance was required for a few seconds of discharging b) What works on paper never seems to work in practice (especially when I'm doing the practical parts) I will also add that you are correct about the need to make sure that capacitors are rated for a higher voltage than the track supply. If they aren't, this may happen:

To update you all on this, I have backed out of the project for now due to an additional complication involving a set of points at another join (which can't be moved without compromising siding length (so that they won't hold the planned trains) due to space issues. Something like The Johnster's solution sounds as though it may be closer to what I was hoping for, albeit too permanent for my needs. Given that I now have points over a join I would need a way of removing/relaying track which can be done easily and without consuming 4 fishplates per piece of track per week (I'm exaggerating the frequency slightly, but you get the idea). I have experimented with using various ways to hold my track in place but nothing works well enough to be useful. I thought I'd made a brekthrough with the idea to lay the track, then place matchsticks on top of the sleepers overlapping the ends of the bridge piece and glued to the pieces that are fixed to the baseboard. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the matchsticks to stick to the sleepers in order to test this properly.

One of the strangest things from my perspective is people talking about 66s as though they were introduced recently - they're up to five years older than me! In fact, the only locomotives introduced in my lifetime are the 68,70, and 88.

Do you have any experience with RM and what CVs do or don't work properly?

What is value for money will depend upon your requirements. As long as the decoder is capable of meeting my requirements on paper then it may be worth trying one and re-evaluating the value for money based upon my experiences. If it doesn't, then I will discount it as an option and look at another option. At this point, I am trying to work out whether it does meet my requirements (as set out above) and what capacitor is required, which will apply to any decoder. I also have no doubt that somebody will be along shortly who will say that Lais decoders do the job they need to do. EDIT: It seems that they already have.