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I will have another play in the near future thanks. 

38 minutes ago, RAF96 said:

All sound profiles in the app have been updated to incorporate bug fixes and to enable static power bank charging.

It is recommended that to take advantage of these fixes folk should download the new profile versions to their decoders.

There will be a new PDF update listing on the Hornby documentation area shortly, with explanatory notes.

Is there an update to the asymetric brake? I need it to stay stopped when it's told to stay stopped.

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/record/EPW039206

On 07/09/2023 at 14:56, hucknall byron said:

Any one happen to know the sizes? I'm guessing around 75mm Square and 600mm high?

Not a million miles away. Nine yards apart. Bring them in a bit closer for more than six wires or on a curve. Use a long one with swivel pulleys. Steel ones are ok in straight lines. I’ve put two back to back with swivel pulleys as they flex a little. 

Good grief it was where i was expecting it...

Considering everything is stored on a tiny little chip, and I know exactly where that is, the whereabouts within said chip is a bit more of mystery. I will go and rummage.

On 27/08/2023 at 22:14, Nearholmer said:

I know there was a discussion of pretty much the same topic in another thread, but I can’t find it. I remember it because it got me looking very closely at how the interface with “the railway proper” at Wisbech was dealt with, and I drew out a diagram of it.

 

I will keep searching!

 

EDIT: False memory syndrome! I found the discussion, and the diagram was from the SRS, and showed how Wisbech station had a “railway side” and a “tramway side”, separated by trapping. The discussion was about FPLs, and the fact that the W&U had none, because, like trapping and s lot of other things, they weren’t required on a tramway. IIRC, it did have one signalled level crossing, with I think a gate on one side of the road only, on the outskirts of Wisbech, where it dived across Elm Road close to a LC on the main line, so would presumably constituted a potential danger to traffic queuing for that. Apparently, the signalman from the box that controlled the mainline LC (Wisbech Harbour Junction) was responsible for the tramway crossing too, and flag-signalled trams over it, and I think opened and shut the one gate, although photographs of the later period seem to show the gate left permanently open (and that it opened ‘inwards’, onto GER property, rather than outwards across the road).

 

You can just see the tramway sneaking into his signalling diagram at the bottom left:

 

 

There is a little trap on this diagram. Signal 11 couldn't be cleared with the main line gates shut to road. If you were modelling this location with trains on both lines the gates would have to work..

37 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

 

Until relatively recently, the mass-concrete bufferstop blocks within the former munitions dump remained in-situ.

 

CJI.

Is there a photo anywhere? 

This is perhaps a better image?

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/record/US_7PH_GP_LOC285_V_5022

19 hours ago, melmerby said:

I wonder whether the notice "Guided Buses Only" is there because the route only goes to the main guided route, where there is a T junction.

Non guided buses would be a PITA.

 

I much prefer what was there before. Far more interesting...

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/record/RAF_106G_UK_1490_RP_3331

1 minute ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Yellow arm for lentil soup, red arm for tomato soup, green arm for pea soup  😁

Levers actually.

42 minutes ago, Ian Blenk said:

Thank-you for taking the time to post this, it's very useful showing the yellow board. I had wanted to build a miniature, because it is a little different.

 

I have the real post in my garden albeit with a main arm on it now. It used to be the Cambells Soup siding.

1 hour ago, Nearholmer said:

 

 

Don’t IP sell a 4WD conversion kit themselves? 

I couldn’t find it. 
 

I’ve been gifted a significant amount of track and the original thought was to build a level roundy roundy to unleash a Mamod or similar. My lad saw Fen End Pit a couple of weeks back and now wants the loco controllable. 
 

Is there a suitable radio control/Bluetooth controller available for the motor as fitted?

I bought one recently and I am very impressed with it. After reading the instructions I reached for my box of useful bits and found a pair of sprockets and a bit of chain so I can drive both axles..

The modification seems to work nicely. I’m highly likely to do this again but after various searches i can’t find where I got them or anything equivalent. 

I've still not mastered the asymmetric brake settings. Stop needs to be stop. It's no good it eventually timing out and the loco moving off after a few minutes. 

In all other respects the control system is ideal for what I want to do. Altering the brake hold time does increase how long it stops for but eventually it moves off.

I swapped my Bristol GRS drawslide frame for L frame. I never took any photos of it though.

I don’t get much time to actually sit down for a read nowadays but I’ve enjoyed reading through this. 
 

My thoughts turn to a larger layout in the same space with more layers etc. 

My role when operating my layout has changed since using asymmetric brake. Once I’ve got the trains moving I can concentrate on being a signaller rather than driver. My layout will cope with three trains on each running line pretty much looking after themselves. I can now shunt to my heart’s content then wait for a margin and sneak a train out etc. 

The read has been most inspiring. 
 

Richard. 

I had no direct involvement with Portmadoc or Kingscote but did off advice to both. The Bluebell guys spent a day playing with mine very early on in the project. 

One day my L frame will relinquish its role as Ely Dock Junction and will take control of an enlarged garden railway. If I get a few moments to myself that is. 

The frame is now a 36 lever assembly, reduced from 220 odd. The rear gearboxes were never going to be used so I came up with this..

On 17/06/2023 at 14:01, 5BarVT said:

Still allowing myself to be sidelined onto things that don’t contribute to getting Heath Town progressed.

I wondered how an electric L Frame for Minories would look: how about like this.

 

Paul.

Not being able to use the last lever was bugging me. The cruciform turrets are there for the electric lock tappet but only half a hole for the circuit controller. I found a solution. I'll go take a photo.

14 hours ago, RedgateModels said:

@Jenny Emilyhas done quite a bit of testing with abc, hopefully she will pop by and help. What units are you using as I so know the DCC Concepts units are a bit different to Lenz or home made

I use a mixture of home made and proprietary ABC units. Everything works fine with normal dcc. Another evening trying to sort it out th is evening to no avail. Fiddling with CV 125 makes it stop and reverse. CV 126 seen to have no effect.