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The update to 23H2 is just via an enablement package which takes a couple of minutes. If you don't want to wait till MS decide it's your turn, you can download and install it from here.

Does this service include being able to have it collected? The parcel that I had today was sent that way and I got all the emails from RM sent to me.

For over a year now I get offered 80% off fees every 2 weeks starting on the Friday. I have to list by the end of Monday and the item must sell during the initial period. If it doesn't, I just cancel and relist. Even if I don't have anything to sell, I always accept the offer just in case Ebay think I've gone dormant.

But that means the recipient has to be in to receive the parcel. Just had a purchase sent this way, and the sender did not add the tracking number so I had no idea when it would come. A second purchase was sent by RM Tracked 48 which does not require a signature. I was given the tracking number, so knew when it was going to be delivered and, as we were not going to be in, was able to update the delivery to leave in our safe place (rear porch). The second class signed-for parcel cost £4.69 whereas the Tracked 48 cost £3.29. I definitely prefer the latter as a receiver, and send all my sales that way too. Tracked 48 has £150 compensation, compared to £50.

No, there's no extra to pay for collections. And they will bring a label if required, again at no extra cost.

I can vouch for that too. Having ballasted the track in that way, it was a couple of days before the occupancy detectors switched off again....

Both Royal Mail Tracked 24 (£3.99) and Tacked 48 (£3.39) have £150 compensation plus provide proof of delivery which satisfies Ebay's requirements. Pick-up from home by the postie is actually free of charge. However, if you want to take it to the Post Office yourself then the prices are 16p extra. As far as Ebay fees are concerned, I always list on the weekend when I'm offered 80% off. Last week I sold an item for £285 + £4.95 postage and the Ebay fees were just £7.72.

To get back on topic ....

Indeed, but bear in mind also that, according to Ofcom, 8 out of 10 households only have cordless landline phones which also will not work in a power cut because the base station needs power. You would need a corded analogue phone plugged directly into the phone socket to be able to make calls in a power cut.

I think what you've been told is that you can't have a new analogue phone line. You can still have a land line but it will be BT's Digital Voice (or other equivalents such as from Sky) where the phone is plugged into the broadband router. I have Digital Voice and it works fine.

Yes - same as on the Bulleid diesels.

That's how it was when first built, which indicates this is an early picture. Also the 4SUB on the right would soon be gone, replaced by new 4EPBs. Here's a better picture of 4001 as first built and while on test.

That looks like Charing Cross to me, with an old 4-SUB in the background. Interesting to see a single unit working here too, but I always remember them working as a pair.

Never mind the heat expansion, if the two rails were wired to opposite polarity as you suggested, then every loco crossing the gap would trigger a short.

If that were the case, the short would be permanent rather than intermittent.

J025 in January 1963 - that's when we had the most severe winter, aka the Big Freeze. I would have thought there would have been a lot more snow in the picture. Memories for me too as I went up to Manchester University in that same month for my interview from London via the Midland line, as the WCML was being electrified. However, the new-fangled diesel broke down 2 miles after leaving St Pancras so I was late for the interview! Can't believe it was 60 years ago. Still got the place though.

I'm using Office 2021 Pro and this is what Word does for me -

Microsoft word will only highlight bulleid but not Bulleid. I assume it recognizes the latter as a name.

Current automation software (such as Traincontroller which I use) creates a speed profile for each locomotive. If you set up a consist, it's done in TC not in the DCC command station and called a "train-set". In this mode, each loco in the train-set is driven independently. So if you run the train-set at, say, 50mph, then TC will drive each loco at the speed step that corresponds to 50mph in its individual profile. So it can be that all locos are running on a different speed step. Maximum speed of the train-set is that of the slowest loco. Don't know iTrain but I suspect it does something similar. It means you don't have to speed match anything, just profile each loco once.

So they still don't know how to spell Bulleid!

As I understand it, a loco just has to be stationary in order to use POM.

Have you not seen this topic?