PenrithBeacon

Can you offer any insights as to the ease of conversion to EM/P4, please. A photo of the underside of the bogies might do it. The Wikipedia page doesn't mention the wheel diameter this might also help.

https://www.sdrt.org/edington-model-railway-exhibition/ Not much detail here. Can anyone add something?

Have the bogies been changed for this new release?

One of the things about Clone Wars and Bad Batch is that the intended young audience didn't approach the subject with preconceptions. This enabled the writers to be much more imaginative than usual as the series wore on. They're worth a watch

I have enjoyed Andor and I'm watching it again. The quality is generally very good although the sub-plot about stealing the pay-roll was a bit iffy. A galaxy wide civilisation is not going to pay its military in cash by Wells-Fargo starship. Silly that one. It is a very good, exceptionally good, depiction of a truly nasty militaristic regime and not a jedi in sight. One of the best, perhaps the best, of the Star Wars films.

https://www.moveelectric.com/e-cars/new-vauxhall-astra-electric-arrive-258-mile-range-and-estate-variant £36k for a supermini? Taking the mick.

Absolutely with 'boxbrownie ' on this. I'm currently using Waze on the phone and although it isn't perfect it's more than good enough. Who needs an expensive infotainment system when you've got a smartphone? All you need is Bluetooth speakers!

What the catering arrangements for the show?

Last year there was an issue with refreshments, has this been resolved, please.

I went on Saturday and enjoyed it immensely. I think the new exhibition team did really well for their first time, the best Scaleforum since Leatherhead, the best by far. Well done to them.

Gee whizz! Now that's what I call a rant! Wow! That sort of anti-social behaviour is, I believe, fairly typical of Facebook users which is precisely why nobody in the club wants to use it. When I clicked on Mr Horn's link Facebook demanded that I log in or create a new account. No thanks. Actually I do have three email accounts although one is unused and has been for a number of years now. I'm typing this an a smartphone which used more as data terminal than a phone. I use it to search the Internet, read books, watch films, order groceries, medication, books , dvds/bluerays & modeling supplies. I do Zoom/WhatsApp video calls on it, use it as a SatNav and pretty well all else which is available on the Internet. It also acts as a very capable point and shoot camera. See the photo below which I took yesterday. But no, I keep away from social media and your post above very eloquently says why.

Yeah and my club which wants to start a new layout. Nobody is on FB and neither do we want to be! It's seems odd to me that Tim would restrict his customer base but there you are. There are other suppliers but they don't seem to be of the same standard.

It would seem that Tim Horn's Facebook page is now his only Internet presence.

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Our house, built in 1911 with gas lighting was converted to EL&P sometime in the 1930s and rewired by me in the mid 70s. It too is going to need a dramatic upgrade when an EV is acquired and it has a detached garage too. Does anyone have any idea of the cost of doing this?

I've done a great deal of research on this both at the NRM and TNA and I'm pretty sure I'm close to getting it sorted but it's difficult. The colour BR used before the change in 1957 was BS381C 266 Mid Chrome Green which was made from organic sources . This was the same colour the GWR used on nationalisation. During 1956 BR decided to change to synthetic paint and settled on what is now B381C 224 Deep Bronze Green this was implemented in 1957. So far so good. But there seems to be a fly in the ointment and one which I haven't yet got to the bottom of. It seems there were concerns about the heat generated by steam engines and how that might affect the ageing of the paint. I think but I don't yet know, that an additive was applied to the paint intended for steam engines with the intention of preserving the colour. This additive, if you look at 'Ellerman Lines' in the NRM, was successful. The paint intended for diesel locomotives didn't have this additive which didn't affect the colour of the paint when new ie when the pot was first opened. However the plot thickens. The version of the paint applied to diesels aged to a grey-green colour which was considered to be unacceptable. (You can see this colour on D8000 at the NRM which deliberately painted using the original 'diesel mix' when inducted into the NRM. D200 was painted shortly before the lockdown in modern 'two pack' paint and I doubt if this will age in the same way, but D200 wasn't painted like that in the 1950s. It then used the same paint that D8000 is in now.) BTW it was this gray green colour that led me and others to think that steam and diesel locomotives were painted in different colours. Not so, the colours started out the same in the pot but aged to different shades because the ingredients were different. How they differed I don't yet know. I need to get to TNA but I'm still reluctant to use public transport for obvious reasons.

You have a motor which is rated for 12V but a battery whose maximum output is 3.7V . Fi rst check that the battery will power up the motor. If it does no problem, you probably won't want the loco to move at its maximum speed anyway. Maximum speed on a 3.7V battery will be a little less than 1/3 of the theoretical maximum. Usually this doesn't matter. Measure up the space into which your battery has to fit and go online to eBay and find the largest 1S (ie single cell) battery can find that will fit. That's the one you buy. I get all my stuff from Micron you can buy everything already wired up. Easy peasy.

I took your advice, thank you, and WOW there's so many. Lots of good viewing there.

I'd be most grateful if anyone could point me to book or dvd on weathering steel wagons with the emphasis on 16T minerals. I've looked through RMweb but as most photos have been lost there's a problem.

There is also the need to protect the public. If the bridge is enclosed it will be an invitation to the unpleasant to commit horrors. I doubt if the bridge will be used after dark.

My diagram, hope you find it useful.

No I can't, but I have always assumed that was because passenger train weights make a Bo-Bo configuration acceptable. Also, modern electronic engineering allows, in North America, the current designs to have A-1-A bogies, where the middle axle simply spreads to weight, but the engines are 4,400hp diesels where the power is delivered by two axles per bogie. In the British context 3,300-ish hp is enough, but why can't that be delivered by a Bo-Bo? I might be over simplifying here, but that is my understanding.

Sorry about this I'm not trying to start a controversy, but why a ban on 100mph Co-Co vehicles? What has changed so a Deltic replacement isn't now permitted?