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It's the light pacifics that have the irregular wheel spacing - 7'6" + 7'3". Hornby already have the rebuilt MN chassis. To produce an unmodified one, isn't it just a question of replacing the valve gear? They have already produced original and rebuilt light pacifics.

The seller is a dismantler! If you look at his completed listings, he's already sold what was in the box - in separate pieces of course!

Describing the Schools as a 220 is using European notation (axles not wheels). The French Nord pacific will be a 231, for example.

Like the pictures and there's a certain poignancy in the last picture, as it shows D6502 which had to be withdrawn the following year (1964) when it was damaged beyond repair.

Agreed. And if you just search Ebay with the single keyword "awesome" you get 205,000 hits!

Perhaps the discount is to reflect that only one motor works and is therefore being sold as a static model! His quotes around excellent! THE LOCO IS PROFESSIONALLY HAND-BUILT BODY ,TWIN MOTOR DRIVE IN " EXCELLENT" CONDITION, HOWEVER ONLY MOTOR IS WORKING ORDER, THEREFORE IS SOLD A STATIC MODEL ONLY

Seems to be standard business practice of this seller, as has been noted several times before on these pages. Set a silly price like this and everyone notices them. Like many others I looked at this, and then at his other items......

If Hatton's have suitable decoders for the same price as ones on Ebay, then I'd buy from Hatton's every time. If things go wrong it will be so much easier dealing with Hatton's. This Ebay seller is not registered as a business seller, which would make me suspicious.

And if you search his other items you can acquire the loco to go with the box - chassis and body separately of course!

Apart from the numbers, it's been renumbered from 34041 Wilton. But this loco had 8'6"" cab and tender, whereas 34104 was built new with the wider 9' version.

It hasn't sold yet - still over 7 days to go! What's going on?

Clicking on this link opens MS Outlook for me ...

And before spending that sort of money, I'd expect the item description to extend to more than a single sentence, even though that sentence runs to around a dozen lines ....

I was testing this on DCC. The CEP does not have directional lights like the 205s.

When I tried this, I found the CEP coach's lights only worked in one direction.

Seems to me the seller's picture of the item for sale was lifted from Hatton's - http://www.ehattons.com/23514/Bachmann_Branchline_32_652_Class_44_Peak_diesel_44004_Great_Gable_in_BR_blue/StockDetail.aspx

SEMG have a lot of useful information on their website about Southern coaches here - http://www.semgonline.com/photoind.html#coaches Plus a list of all known coach sets, the file for which is embedded on this page - http://www.semgonline.com/coach/sets.html

You don't have to go to the sorting office to pay the £8 - you can do it online as I did recently.

I've had a couple of problems with Switch-8 decoders in that port 0 lost its address. On my layout I'm using RR&Co automation and the result of the first occurrence was that a train went into the storage yard down the wrong track when a turnout didn't change, resulting in a heavy shunt. An hour later another point on a different Switch-8 failed to switch but this time it was a train exiting the yard so just a short on the frog. I contacted NCE who advised sending the two Switch-8s back "for repair". They wouldn't elucidate other than to say that the problem would "only affect port 0". I have 7 Switch-8s and didn't fancy disconnecting all of them and sending them to the US. Instead I did a small re-assignment of ports so that all my spare ports are a port 0, and where I can't free up a port I've made sure that the turnout connected is normally a trailing one, so I'll get an immediate system short on the frog if it fails to switch, rather than an unwanted diversion with possibly damaging consequences!

This 3-way point is not the same as the standard Electrofrog points: you must use a polarity switch for the frogs since they are already isolated and otherwise they will be dead. The frogs do not obtain their power via the point blades. The bonding of the 3 rails on each side can be done without any other work and is valid for both DC and DCC. To be honest I don't know why Peco don't fit a permanent bonding wire anyway.

I have 3 of these on a DCC layout. At first I just connected them as normal, with 2 frog polarity switches powering the 3 frogs. However I started getting locos stalling as parts of the turnouts were dead - especially after ballasting and painting. The solution is to solder a wire across all three rails on each side where Peco have already thoughtfully cut the web for you! As my layout is DCC I've simply made this wire a normal dropper that's soldered across the 3 rails. No problems at all since.

And most of his other items for sale are suffering from vertigo too!

I actually tried that a little while ago, albeit with all-green coaches. The lights on the two 205 coaches worked fine, but the 4CEP coach's lights only worked in one direction. The 4CEP is wired differently to the 2EPB, in that you can separately turn on headcodes and interior lights with F0 and F1, whereas with the 2EPB and 205 they work together with F0, although you do have a switch on the underside of the 205 to turn off the interior lights so that only the headcodes operate. Despite the mismatch in the coach design, a 3-car unit looked so much better!

If a buyer wants to collect in person then there's nothing to stop you insisting that it's payment in cash on collection only.

And it's not 'Suburban' either. 0 for 3 then!