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Back to the old chestnut of torque, speed and power. These parameters are linked by a simple formula: Power = Torque x Speed Most RTR models have a top speed far in excess of what is needed for realistic operation. This is because: * High reduction gearing costs money to make * Slow running trains are boring for the trainset customers If we design for a lower top speed, say full voltage = 30mph for freight, 45 for MT, 60 for XP then the power of the motor needed to achieve the torque required to move the train will be less. So small motor + high ratio gearbox = no problem.

Rainy Days & Mondays - Carpenters

Lazy Sunday Afternoon - Small Faces

Another mapping site with a useful split screen feature so you can find old railways where they have been completely obliterated. http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Showaddywaddy

Interesting stuff here. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/science/landUseAndDevelopment/landslides/hatfieldFeb2013.html

Whole lot of Loving - Led Zepplin

Hurting - Friendly Fires

Feel the Need (in me) - Detroit Emeralds

Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys

Google is our friend http://www.antenna-models.com/ Done recently here. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/64384-any-other-ways-of-controlling-model-trains/page-4

Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon

Just to clarify, the 'time capsule' was sealed in 1981, 7 years after the H&S Act was passed. The discussion started as a criticism of various unsafe practices at the imaginary lab which the good doctor is building. My point being that even in 1981, far less in 1975, no one took much notice of such state nanny-ism, and those kind of 'unsafe practices' were commonplace and should be portrayed thus.

Music to Watch Girls By - Andy Williams. You can get arrested for that these days.

This is worth a visit if you are in the area. http://www.bmag.org.uk/museum-of-the-jewellery-quarter When the 'time capsule' was opened they found two similar plain cardboard boxes side by side in the production area containing a white crystalline substance. Samples were removed and sent for analysis. One contained oxide of arsenic, the other, sugar for the workers tea. H&S? don't make me laugh!

Totally agree on this concept. For the tail-chasers of this world, en-route charging will be needed, but this can be accomplished on the plain track sections - leave all the S&C isolated. For the shunters and protoypical operators (i.e. train makes one appearance then returns to storage for an extended time), the charging sections can be fewer.

Pairs of 37's were used, still later, as bankers on the Lickey.

I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair - South Pacific

The Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy

Here I go again - Hollies

Oh I Do like to be Beside the Seaside! - Mark Sheridan

Just an impression, not a criticism, I think the trackwork is too good. My memory of non-passenger lines in the era was of rotted sleepers, dropped joints with clay slurry pumping to the surface, scars from past derailments, missing keys, no doubt all this is already on your to-do list.

See my Baby Jive - Wizzard!