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I have used pond liner as a fall plate could be used for your job.

Try squeezing the rail joiners on all point connections that feed into point.

If you want to see or try some animations come to the Derby roundhouse exhibition on May9th and 10th 2020 to see the Thomas and friends layout. There's even a flaming Dragon.

Over 20 years without modification to my electrofrog ballasted point have given me reliable running.

So sorry to hear of everybody's loss at this time. Terry

Yes Big Jim this was also noted by myself and informed the club personally to highlight the fact.

Used to go fishing in that lake around that time and remember the railway but had no camera when I was 10 years old .

Thanks for that Gordon Finsbury park viewers platform was my spot in the 1950s. Happy memories.

A few from 1980/1

Didnt the Paington model shop have a large amount of stock stolen in a bugulary not so long ago? Not suggesting anything suspisious

Spent many days up on the hill overlooking the station in the 1980s.

Looking forward to seeing Hornsey Broadway at Burton in June as I used to live on the boarders of Hornsey and Finsbury park from the 1950s until the 1990s. Love the layout Kier.

Thanks Johnster and everybody for their suggestions but i have found the problem which was my own making by fitting Kadees to the ponies the screw holding the Kadee was slightly fouling on the buffer beam causing the chassis to lift slightly, Problem solved. Thank you Terry

Thank you all for your feedback to my problem. I have recently changed the coupling on the ponies to Kadee's and as suggested this could have been the problem ,I could not find any Mazak faults and the chassis sits square. The track work is also 20 years old and has never given me any problems apart from two point changes, which are all Peco electrofrog. All other locos perform ok. I have left the two body retaining screws off, and loco has no problem, so I think I am happy with that as points and gradients are no trouble. Thank you again for all your replies. Regards Terry I .

I have a split chassis Ivatt 2-6-2 Bachmann over 15 years old that has recently started to wheel slip mainly on points and gradients. I have bought a new set from Bachmann and installed them but the wheel slip still occurs ,take the body off and all is ok. Could the retaining body screws distort the chassis ? as that is all that I can think is happening. regards Terry

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The ECML bridge over Holloway road in London N7 carried this as I remember it well in the 1950s.

Two units lorry mounted left Litchurch lane Derby this afternoon heading for the M1

Thank you Steve for all your wonderful photos and workmanship on Finsbury Square .I have only just found this and will follow with interest as all my spotting days were done on the Spotters platform in Finsbury Park where you could see what was coming up Holloway bank in the 1950s. with Kings Cross, St Pancras and Liverpool Street so close those where the days of a happy childhood, only disappointed that I did not have a camera. Regards Terry

Mickleover members have a substantial "00" layout called Farkam which has been exhibited extensively in the UK and Europe and can be found on YouTube. I think however that a closed bidding system for the layout is in progress. Contact the Mickleover Model railway group based in Derby for details. Good Luck.

Thank you Clive for your suggestions. I am looking at the midlands area for the Depot after spending some spotting days in 80s around Shirebrook, Barrow Hill,Westhouses and Derby where I am now living. The Shirebrook plan looks to be the most useful for me so I will get the lining paper and track templates out on the boards to get a better picture. Thank you once again. Regards Terry

I am planning to build a 00 blue era diesel depot on 2 two feet by four feet boards and would like to ask how many tracks would look comfortable across the two feet area. Asking as I am not able to plan with a computer programme.

Thanks everybody for the feed back, in particular ejstubbs and Grovenor for their help. My diagram for feeds and isolating joiner s are all correct and Last evening I tested that there were no incoming power issues with a meter. I then cleaned the contact area with the switch rail and stock rail on the new point and it seems to have done the trick as road one is now isolated and only one loco moves at any one time when point is changed. This was such a simple solution that gave me some grief, but thanks to RMweb I did not have to do any re-wiring. Matter closed.

My layout section in question is shown attached. The problem is I do not want to do any re-wiring and was not aware that Peco had redesigned the SL-E91 until my purchase of the new one, I have always found the old style utterly reliable. img002.pdf

Sorry a little hasty .The isolating joiners are before the run round point.