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If you want the same Windows games that shipped with Windows 7 installed on your Windows 10 system then you can get them from here - http://winaero.com/blog/get-windows-7-games-for-windows-10/

It's only a free upgrade for users of Windows 7 and 8.1.

Hackers and viruses feast on unpatched PCs. There are far, far more problems caused by people not applying security patches, than applying them and then having a problem. If all Windows PCs were up to date with security patches the world would be a much more secure place. As far as the tiles are concerned, there are a bunch of them which are there by default when you first install W10. But you can unpin some or all of them if you wish. My W10 PC has no tiles anywhere and it almost looks like W7.

Here's a picture of one on a Newhaven boat train in 1961 - http://railphotoprints.zenfolio.com/p287659169/h4168a3f8#h4168a3f8 And another on a Charing Cross to Margate service, also in 1961 - http://railphotoprints.zenfolio.com/p287659169/h56509826#h56509826

This article seems to be the definitive answer to everything you might want to ask about Windows 10. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_wintp-insider_install/frequently-asked-questions-windows-10/5c0b9368-a9e8-4238-b1e4-45f4b7ed2fb9 I have Windows 10 on my laptop and it seems fine. To qualify for the free upgrade you must update a qualifying system (7 or 8.1). Your PC is then registered as authenticated, after which you can do a clean ISO install if you wish. My other 2 PCs have full W7 licenses, unlike the laptop which is OEM. The full license can be transferred to another PC, or the existing PC can be upgraded with a new motherboard and the license is still valid. The above article explains this still applies after upgrading to W10.

It was not transferred to Nine Elms until 14/06/1959 according to this source - http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=118533&loco=35028 In other words at the same time the first phase of the Kent Coast electrification scheme went ahead. I myself actually spotted it on a summer trip to Tonbridge in 1958. It was then the only MN not underlined in my ABC so it was a red-letter day!

Ah yes, but it's HO scale, so as long as your railway is OO gauge you might just get away with it.

Yes - see picture at the bottom of this page - http://www.semgonline.com/steam/700class_01.html

Having got over the faff of getting my early BR version 30693 fitted out with a decoder, I today decided to do some load testing to see what it's capable of. I have a train of 10 Bachmann Seacow bogie ballast hoppers that's supposed to represent the sort of train that ran from Meldon Quarry under steam in SR days. Its current motive power is a Bachmann 9F which is more than capable of hauling it - the train is quite heavy because the hoppers are not very free running. I tried a Hornby Q1 with this train and it just about managed it - the load is really at the limit for this loco. Then I tried the new 700 and it nearly slipped to a stand trying to start the train out of the storage sidings. Glad I wasn't intending to use the 700 on this train. So a loco with a power classification of 3F can't manage it, the Q1 at 5F just about can and the 9F has no problem at all. What is needed is something a bit more powerful than a 5F, such as a 6F. Ah yes, I've got an S15 on pre-order and that's a 6F - should be just the job hopefully and more representative than the 9F. (I have a soft spot for my 9F 92192: as a 13-year-old at Easter in 1958 I went on an organized trip round Swindon Works and 92192 was actually under construction in the erecting shop. Little did I realize then it would be scrapped only 7 years later). The 700 will be fine on a model of the sort of train it usually handled, ie mixed freight. So I'm very happy with it.

If you've got deep pockets..... http://www.marcmodels.co.uk/html/sr_-_br.html

I have an N-class that pre-dates the fitting of a 6-pin socket. It has a Lenz Silver mini that's very easy to hardwire once the PCB board is removed. For the T9 with the 6-wheel tender, which is similar to the 700, I have also fitted a Lenz Silver mini. But I've simply taken a spare Bachmann blanking plug, isolated the solder blob at each end and soldered the decoder wires on to it. The mini decoder then sits at the back of the tender floor on a piece of the Lenz sticky tab. I may have to do the same with the 700. However I may use a 6-pin decoder instead, and fit using a Bachmann 6-pin to 8pin converter harness (36-563).

Got mine today - early BR version 30693. An excellent model that runs extremely well. But what a battle to fit a DCC decoder in the tender! You would have thought with a tender of that size that it would be easy, but it isn't. Firstly, the tender pickups are fixed to a pair of copper strips that are raised off the floor and extend the length of the tender. So care must be taken that decoders do not come into contact. Secondly, the weights are screwed to the underside of the roof and annoyingly are not flush so there's 2-3mm of wasted space. I've tried to fit a Lenz Standard+ by fixing it with the usual two-sided tab that Lenz supply. But the tender body won't go back on. Even though the decoder is single sided there's not enough room between the pickup strips and the weights for this relatively thin decoder. So I tried a Lenz Silver direct that I have spare for another project. Again, the weights prevent the body going back at one end, and the slope of the tender at the front also blocks it. Hence the Standard+ has been refitted but with the weights removed. It's stuck to the underside of the tender roof, but I've had to put some masking tape over the bare copper pickup strips, in case after time the sticky tab weakens and the decoder drops on to them. The problem is that Hornby still stick to their R8249 8-pin decoder, unlike Bachmann who have 6-pin and 21-pin versions of their entry level ones. So fitting a 6-pin decoder into the E4, and a 21-pin into the C class were no problem at all. As for the handrail knobs, what's the problem? I can't even see that they're wrong from close-up let alone from normal viewing distance. At least the NEM pocket on the tender's at the right height for a Kadee coupling. And there's a typo on the back of the box describing the loco as "4F". At least it correctly has 3F on the cab side which is all that matters.

Seems to be a business plan that works by attracting attention (eg ours!) - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OO-Gauge-Tri-ang-R753-BR-Class-81-BO-BO-E3001-/261896600486?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cfa40fba6

The larger lion-and-wheel crest looks much better on the bogie tenders, for example here on a Urie loco - http://railphotoprints.zenfolio.com/p1018623573/h59358f46#h283a91a7

Here's E5010 early in its life without gutters - http://railphotoprints.zenfolio.com/p287659169/h1fb4c639#h3584f7bd and later with them - http://railphotoprints.zenfolio.com/p287659169/h2910c508#h2910c508 And E5011 in plain green also with them - http://railphotoprints.zenfolio.com/p287659169/h1fb4c639#h3be7c1c1 So the addition of gutters must have occurred early in their lives.

A "Triang-Horny" . Also described in the text as brand "Truang".

Here's E5009 on the 8th April 1967 with no yellow panel. Was it still like this by August? https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/5519539925/in/album-72157603648772112/ EDIT: No it wasn't! By the following month it has panels - https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/5357110245/in/album-72157603648772112/

Your link doesn't work for me ...

I've fitted mine with #18s but even these look too long, and I'm sure they'd take a #17 although I've not tried one yet.

My local station - Tutbury and Hatton - is another example still in use today. At least the LC gates are still worked manually by a signalman in his box overlooking it.

He's registered as a business seller and has 7819 items for sale. But look at his sold listings and he's only sold 12 items, the last being on 24th March. So not very viable business then!

Update from another forum - "This errant bidder has now had his butt kicked. Actions taken may not be immediately apparent but eBay has responded that the seller has made a mockery of eBay's reserve pricing policy and will take action against him with possible suspension or cancellation of his membership. EBay take a dim view of this seller's relistings"

And why is the inner end of the power car painted yellow too?

But that's his responsibility, not yours. If he ships it using the original postage, and it's lost in the post, then he has to reimburse you in full. Those are the Ebay rules.

You can open a non-payment case 48 hours after the auction ends. I had one recently and despite a polite reminder got no answer. So I opened a case, and the buyer paid up within 10 minutes!