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    Anyone got a spare HABD? I’m currently trying to improve some Triang Ore wagons. Found some second hand wheels. Some had been given conducting paint to make the axle live for pickups. No problem. Only use one in each metal frame wagon to avoid any problems. Didn’t take metal couplings into account. Real flames. Melted insulation in a wheel set. Doh. Who says model railways aren’t exciting?

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    I have to make some for my kit at some stage. I’ve not tried yet but one thought was to draw the net then place the frame on top. Next I plan to use some old airfix kit sprue heated up then stretched to produce plastic ‘strings’. These strings would be then laid over the frame and plan and secured. I did this years ago to make something similar. Watch out for fumes. It wasn’t particularly robust.
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    An hours work with the RRV and clamshell bucket and…
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    I worked for BT in various roles before joining the railway. One of my favourites was the pole gang doing all the jobs the polecat couldn't get to. My gang foreman was ex S&T at Hitchin and would regale stories putting up signals by hand. We are spoilt nowadays with a near fifty ton RRV coming out to help us... But when you have to handle something like this nothing else will do.
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    I know what you mean. I’m actually from somersault land living within a couple of miles of Mr French, joint patentee of the somersault signal.
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    I had intended to use the ex Marks Tey 8/9 signal but the post was far to rotten. The proximity of 25KV had caused the cast iron and steel to eat each other
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    Yes indeed. 12/40 signal.
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    After just over a year of lurking in the dark wiring up a signalbox thoughts have turned to getting some outside kit ready. I'll post pictures of the signals as i build them as the details may be useful..
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    I've got a colourlight here in 1931 that was to do with linespeed increase..
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    After the catastrophic events of 1935 further south the signalling changed rapidly. I’ve been wondering when 18 became a four aspect colouright. Linespeed increases for the A4’s would have been well underway by your timeframe. In what form will you be modelling the up starting signal? I was out testing points much further north on the ECML last night at Huntingdon. Once I’m functional again I’ll get on with a copy of the diagram.
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    Here's another diagram though i'm struggling to find any differences with the earlier one.. If you want a full size Copy or similar let me know. How about a few block occupancy detetctors and have a working diagram?
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    All that’s needed now is another station at Fordham and reinstatement of the Snailwell Junction - Warren Hill chord with an Ely - Cambridge shuttle and it might be useful.
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    Soham signalbox and....
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    I'm thinking of a mail coach with an opening door and deployable net. Is it possible to get a dcc servo controller and small servo's that will fit in a OO scale mailcoach?

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      I've got TPOs that operate with

       

      HD 3-rail

      HD 2-rail

      Triang (and Hornby) mechanical ramp

       

      As mentioned above the HD offerings have a socking great solenoid that whacks the "net" and the delivery door open. Only a tinplate coach could survive the forces involved!

       

      The benefit of the HD setup is that it only operates when you want it to, if it passes the apparatus without the button being pressed, the doors stay closed. The Triang and Hornby version opens the doors each time it passes, whether there are mailbags to be collected/dropped or not.

       

      My first post should have had a "tongue in cheek" smiley after "I think its been done before...." :jester:

       

      Unless you have some sort of a lineside trigger, you'd have to have "net" boards at a suitable distance before the apparatus to remind you to deploy the pick up net in time....

    3. LNERGE

      LNERGE

      I can't use an extra rail with dcc so it will have to be something else. Magnets may be worth a try.

    4. Stephen Freeman

      Stephen Freeman

      Reed switch?

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    I've never heard of one being installed but if it was in the catalogue they must have been prepared to manufacture it.
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    Available in the catalogue..
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    I know of at least three level crossing that have it. Two are mine that i look after and have rather complex controls 75 yars apart. The third was on The Abbey branch between Denver Junction and Abbey over the A10 bypass.
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    No one has mentioned position 7
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    Nice butt. They are getting harder to find in 12 inch to the foot scale. The one that is in use has a plastic butt inside as the original is too leaky. I used to have some circuit diagrams for this box but lent them to someone to copy and i've never seen them again. I do hope they turn up somewhere. That is truly a magnificent model.
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    I rather brutally dressed the rails with a course file on some of my bridges on my garden railway. It looks awful but gives the bridges a nice rumble when trains go over.
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    Plenty of playing about with the various parts to get the best results... Hellifield.
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    Oh the blisters…. It was handed back as planned in the early hours of Monday 27th. I must admit I was surprised as there was track missing at 08:00 on the Sunday.
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    I've seen a picture today of the large concrete stop block at Mistley almost completely on it's back with CAO brakevan B954079 perched on top. Photo taken at 12:45 11th May 1982. Judging by the marks on the block this is a further heavy shunt from the one in Dave's photo. I've sent a text to the author of the book it's in to see if i can post the picture on here.
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    A better picture here..
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