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Shunting today's vans...

I do know Didcot at one time displayed the restored tender on its own for a while after it's painting and lining. It's possible the engine went to a different company or so long had passed a total match wasn't possible.. the video shows it up more as I think HDR was on.

Well I decided to ask the local council if we could qualify for solar panel grants as the barn has an F rating and apparently this area falls into an income and savings are irrelevant as it's rural. They basically said surveyors on his way you can have them for free... I sense a catch but this is directly through the local council.

My limas are all 8 pin fitted with sockets and work fine.. though the auto profile produces the usual Lima 0 to 60 in .5 seconds result so I re programmed the curve manually for slow running. My only issue is that this seems to remove some auto functions on f28 from working correctly like break squeal. I need to relook at that. I also have a mix of hm7000 and zimo etc so the app as a controller is pretty pointless, it is however excellent for programming the hm7000 chips and fine tuning on the fly.

Well you can squeeze an Hm7000 into the EFE Hymek with no issues others than the usual elephant in the room. Lack of a class 35 profile.

Take your old unused track rubber, wrap a piece of lint free cloth around it ( the type used to clean spectacle lenses) tightly. And soak the flat bottom in electrical contact cleaner.. You will never look back. Ps doesn't have to be a track rubber just something easy to handle when you have tightly wrapped the cloth around and are holding the knot.

It sort of works for what it's meant to do, but it's not very good at realistic notch control, inertia and speed matching. You need to delve into the curves to get those working. TBF it's not Hornbys fault, it just would have been nice to be able to use the auto functions, though I wish they would fix that auto horn before a movement to have a longer delay before the movement.

Looking good so far.. I would agree with James though and go with the picture frame effect for a layout of this size.. Such as shown here, forcing a viewpoint and adding lighting makes a huge difference. Also make sure your landscape isnt all flat.. As you have already laid the track on the base you could take the other route and build up a little land at the front.

Finally located the class 47 sound test in the Lima using HM7000 8 pin and a rather "long" acceleration curve so that you can pretty much notch the engine up a step or two without the ringfield actually running away at 30mph from 5mph. Only issue now though this seems to have effected some of the auto functions like brake squeal.

A rather unlikely dirty "Prince William" with an even more unlikely payload. 🫣

I had a break for a while from the railway as I've been working abroad a while.. When I came back I placed a loco on the cleaned track and got no response from my DCC controller.. yet every other loco non hm7000 was fine After several hours of fruitless headscratching and jet lag sleep it dawned on me that my phone had Bluetooth off . Turning it on immediately sprung life into everything. But my point and query is, shouldn't it be irrelevant as once I put my profiles on, these are all run in DCC mode through my controller, not Bluetooth through the phone app. Or am I misunderstanding here.

Could a secondPower Hornby power bank be added to those then RAF

Some of these exorbitant fees from the US are simply because the seller forgot to turn off international and eBay went to default.. You can walk into any towns FedEx store and buy a shipping box with air for a fraction of these costs fully insured.

Is there a reason you need to know the exact voltage.....cheaper to Just get a simple proses voltage checker.. doesn't tell u the exact DCC voltage but does indicate if it's a bit low. 9.99 from your model shop