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The 48ds waits to enter the yard.

The yard.... One thing I think I'll work on next is the right hand side against the "side" of the backscene.. may just wrap the country side around in the same way I did it behind the bridge and behind the goods shed.

I just use WD 40 contact cleaner. Note it's the electric contact cleaner not the WD40 you use to lubricate squeeky doors ,.

Yes the points are all electrofrog. tbh I can't imagine how such a short base vehicle could manage anything but electro unless you keep that horrendous looking conflat wagon they have included permanently attached. Even if your not bothered by the conflats ancient tooling it's pickup design is pretty poor often resulting in it running round without it's wheels turning. As you can probably guess mines been put back in the box never to see the light of day again. Regarding the 48ds mines run smoothly from day one after the usual 1hour running in. I use nothing more than a peco or Hornby rubber on the track. Followed by a cloth on a stick with WD contact cleaner.. (Not and Never WD40).. I use the same contact cleaner on the point blades and have also wired them. Tbh my track is not particularly even so the 48ds copes very well. One other thing probably helps, for such a small layout I did make the decision not to use small points as on fixed chassis vehicles at slow speeds your putting more resistance the tighter the curves get. Ps on that video the power is DC with no feedback.A simple Gauge master W

They do look lovely when weathered up

And another little un protypical shunting (a bit future East meets preTOPS past West) with the weathered pilchard.

Pilchard in the sidings.

Reminds me of that picture of a dress everyone sees differently. Looks brown to me. As an aside what was the departmental terrier actually used for, what sort of wagons go with it? Etc

Waiting to depart with a lone fruit van.

View from the bottom of the embankment.

Bit bored this morning so after a good track cleaning session I decided to test the good old Hornby 48DS over the not very perfect trackwork.

Excellent job on the wall and signalbox

Lovely work Ian, will be looking forward to following this.

Digging through the archives I came across this pre grouping photo from Tunstead Moor.

Bit different this morning. A little (probably very non prototypical) shunting the yard video I threw together this morning. If the video looks at times like you have been eating cakes in Amsterdam I think it's to do with the stabilisation on the phone. Very weird.

I think we achieved capacity of 90%+ and at a guess the adult price was 46ish not sure of the child price though. 129 trips in total on 8 carriage sets. 1 carriage though was staff only, band actors, Santa, elves etc. Hard to keep prices keen at the moment with spiralling fuel costs.

Do you know I'm not sure lol.. Which is pretty bad as I'm a volunteer. 🥴 A few videos below...

Looking far to clean.. I feel a mighty weathering is required.

A few pictures from this morning.

A new morning begins