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As already mentioned it's my understanding that numbers on the discs were engine duty numbers and hence could apply to multiple trains. If a reporting number was required (eg on busy summer Saturdays when extra trains were being run) then a separate duty number was carried on a board. Here's one such example https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-Railways-British-Isles/SR-and-BRS/Rebuilt-Bulleid-pacifics/i-vxcsmqq/A

But now you've lost the benefits of the close-coupling mechanism. Using the Hornby version of the Roco coupling - at least for the inner connections of fixed sets - the corridor connections of Bachmann MK1s are touching on straight track (and hence look very realistic) but open out on curves as needed.

Just got this official email from Hatton's: "Our latest information from the supplier suggests this item will arrive with us on or after Tuesday 14th March 2017". So tomorrow it is then. If Hornby are saying the BR variants aren't coming till August I assume that means the next production run.

Are you sure it was a resistor and not the capacitor? This is the thread I started a while ago regarding Hornby's new-style DCC socket. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/104041-new-style-Hornby-dcc-blanking-plug/ Which bit did you remove and bridge?

It's pretty straightforward as there's plenty of space inside. Mine has a Lenz Standard+ decoder. The main issue is getting the body off and back on again without too many detail bits falling off ....

Oxford will be the handover point for the train from the SR to the WR, so the SR only routed it to there. Where it's going on from there we'll never know, but as you say it's no doubt going much further north. By this date the Pines Express was taking the same route and probably had the same head code. Today there are a couple of trains per hour scheduled from Southampton or Bournemouth to Manchester or Newcastle that take the same route.

As with the picture in post #98, the loco is carrying SR route indicator discs for Bournemouth -> Oxford which probably explains the unusual stock. Could be a pigeon special returning to the WR with accommodation in the first coach for the handlers. In earlier years such a working might have gone via the S&D.

Taking the idea of a "job lot" to a new level .... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-Bachmann-Peco-Heljan-Graham-Farish-00-N-Gauges-Pallet-Bundle-/282374990442?hash=item41bedc6a6a:g:ebsAAOSwax5YsqgB

Interesting that the loco appears to have lamps indicating "express passenger". But then this is the SR, where lamps/discs indicate the route and not the type of train. And lamps in this position indicate Bournemouth -> Oxford, which is the route that the train is presumably taking. No doubt the WR crew will change them round once they get to WR territory.

Well if it's any consolation I didn't see that either!

Looks like Woking to me. The platforms are quite staggered.

With my first one I couldn't get the screws out. However they came out easily enough on the second but the tender was still stuck fast. I eventually gave it a hefty pull and it shot off taking a couple of detail parts with it that need to be re-attached. Otherwise no damage done. I did not have this problem with 34013 Okehampton a year ago - in fact it was the easiest DCC fit I think I've had for a long time. Just hoping I don't have the same problem with my pre-ordered 35028 Clan Line, as I suspect dealers won't have replacements .....

A #20 will fit with no problems. For a #19 you will need to file the underside of the end beam as otherwise it will snag against it. I use Hornby-Roco couplings within sets, and #20 on the outer ends.

Just an update here. Having failed to get the tender body off I returned it to Hatton's for a replacement. No problems this time extracting the screws although one of them did have some glue on it which didn't prevent the body coming off. The body still had to be prised off which suggests there's some glue in the wrong place.

I've removed all the tiles from my desktop to make it look like W7. It's not exactly the same but the differences are only minor, so I haven't bothered with the likes of Classic Shell. Incidentally, if any of you are wondering what happened to patch Tuesday a couple of days ago, MS discovered a late problem and pulled the changes just before they went live. Latest news is this month's patches will be rolled into next month's upgrade on March 14th. Also I understand the Windows 10 practice of doing monthly cumulative updates is being rolled out onto Windows 7 and 8.1.

Hornby Maunsells would be a good match.

If 70029 hauled the train to Templecombe then the train will have originated at Waterloo, and was hauled by 70029 because not all of the MNs were back in service following inspection/repairs of their crank axles. The train would have then been worked forward to Bath via an S&D engine (or two).

Here's 70034 at Bath Green Park in 1965 - http://railphotoprints.uk/p752970880/h21fb59df#h21fb59df

IE is there on Windows 10 - you don't have to specifically install it. I use it all the time and never use Edge so I don't know what your problem is. You can click the start button, scroll down to Windows Accessories, expand that then right click on IE, then more, and select "pin to taskbar". It's then there whenever you need it.

Got mine today from Hatton's. However, try as I might I cannot get the tender body off to fit a decoder. There are two small screws at the back by the buffer beam but they seem to be wedged solid. I had no problems with 34013 Okehampton last year. Anyone else having problems? EDIT: With further close inspection I can see the screw heads are turning. But I can turn them ad infinitum in both directions. This can only mean the screws have broken internally. Looks like it's going back for a replacement.....

The introduction of the new 5-WES (class 442) units in the mid-1980s units required the recovery of the motors from the 4-REPs. So there was considerable reformation of the stock in order to provide the services during this time. One of the changes was to take the buffet car from a disbanded 4-REP and add it to a 4-TC, thus forming a 5-TCB unit. Designated class 492 there were 4 such units numbered 2804-7. They weren't in service for long, being soon replaced by the new class 442 units.

I have some of the early issues printed in the 1980s, such as 28 and 35. These do not say they are copyright anywhere. But later issues do (eg issue 74). I suspect that, in the 1980s, copiers, scanners and PCs didn't exist but that's different today. So scanning a copyright magazine and selling it is definitely illegal.

Have you tried reporting the item as copyright infringement?

I asked Chris of A and H Models (Lenz distributor) if he had any knowledge of the LZV200 delivery times. This was his response - "I am sorry I am totally in the dark on this at present - The Toy Fair is in February and hopefully there will be an update - the development of the New LH101 handset suggests to me that this could open some of the described features on the LZV200 - this is speculation, but I still think that the RailCom question is still haunting LZV200 development - I would like to see an agreed standard for RailCom between all the companies that are using versions of it. I will post what I can when I have something more concrete - I wish companies would keep development work under their hat until it reaches a point that it is viable. I have a multitude of products on order for the shop that are years late - we cannot run on thin air!" So we all remain in the dark ....

It's not the only one so it must be deliberate but why? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-R2417-Class-08-3256-BR-Green-Diesel-Shunter-Loco-DCC-Ready-OO-Gauge-/142264014182?hash=item211f989566:g:B4YAAOSwnHZYkQiz