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Add 85101 to that list Andi

I've not travelled that line for the best part of 30 years but could immediately visualise the ones you meant! Andi

Pretty sure all Lima driving wheels use a 2mm axle Andi

DMUs, HSTs and 73s had small wheels on 4mm scale bogies. 50s and Deltics had small wheels on 3.5mm scale bogies 20s, 26s, 27s, 31s, 33s, 37s, 40s, 42s, 47s, 52s, 59s, 60s, 66s, 67s, 87s all had large wheels on 4mm scale bogies. The only one I'm not sure of is the 92 as I never owned one

Lima 26s, 27s, 33s and 37s had 4mm scale bogies and the larger wheels Andi

If it is directly connected to the direction selector then yes, the driver will put it into neutral the moment he stops every single time to give his feet a rest from the deadmans pedal Andi

Far more likely than any of the other lot observing Ramadan but why let the truth get in the way of a political dig? https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/785827477016850432?lang=en

I'm looking at a complete rewire of my new Hornby 87 and I was wondering whether I can be clever? Discussion has suggested that the high intensity headlight only came on when the direction selector was moved from Off to Forward, are there any (non-sound) decoders out there that have an option that a function is only active if switched on and speed is above zero? Andi

Yes it does have the normal close coupling mech. I can’t comment on the operation of it as I don’t have the layout up at the moment so haven’t had a chance to run it yet. I tend to remove these mechs anyway as they are not compatible with my own coupling systems. Andi

Mid Suffolk Models in Stowmarket, far far too many wage packets of my teenage years went over the counter there! Andi

Lots of mention of the brake force of the train being the part that does the work, the bit I haven't seen mentioned yet is the speed restriction of light locos to 75mph due to lack of ability to stop! Didn't stop one working I was on with a pair of light 37s heading from Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds passing Claydon at 110 mph! Andi

Grrrrrrrr! The LEDs on the cab-front circuit boards are wired common Negative! Why Hornby? Why? Andi

That's cheap... the £1000+ freight train era is here too, or at least is in transit, can't wait for my Freightliner flats to arrive Andi

Ideally you need the ability to show both a single yellow (and some from of route indicator - feather or theatre box) or a red and calling-on signal (position light) again with some form of route indication. The single yellow would be used to route a train into the platform when it is unoccupied, the calling-on signal is used to allow either a loco to back onto coaches already in the platform or a second unit/train into the platform when one train is already in it. Can you give us a track plan? Hope that helps Andi

I understood that most of the roof panels were made of fibreglass to allow light into the loco. Andi

Stow wasn't a booking on point pre 1990 as per the topic though. Andi (Ex Stowmarketarian)

Large logo blue first appeared at least three years prior to this. http://www.class56.co.uk/picture/56036-to-040781.jpg Edit: five years https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Rail_Class_56_locomotive_56036_1979.png

Could you expand on that a little please? Andi

I’m just hoping that my ordered and paid for 25 vehicles all arrive! Andi

Those of us who build realistic OLE are quite capable of changing a cosmetic pan for a working one. Judith Edge sell the correct pattern cross-arm as a kit. Yes it might cost a few quid and a bit of time but I’m going to be spending time sorting out the lights too so changing the pan isn’t really a hardship. To be honest there is not a single loco/unit that would be allowed under my OLE with a pan direct from the factory, they all without exception have springs that need to be weakened and I insist on a maximum height for a raised pan without wires of 80mm above rail height for clearance through the unwired fiddle yards. Andi

Stuart, if you can say where you are located you may find a local member here who is willing to reprogram the decoder for you. Andi

The trouble is that someone put the container models into a container that the models were modelled on, this created a vortex in the space/time continuum and now the models and the containing container can no longer be located... Andi

A drop of thick superglue in cut joints will stop them closing up in hot weather. I've never had a problem with ballasted track buckling, but have seen unballasted fiddle yard roads go distinctly off true. Andi

That's an Apple thing. Open the images in whatever image viewer you use and rotate them so that they show the wrong way up. Save them like that. Now rotate them again to be the right way up and save again. Now they will post the right way up. Andi

Amazing how many people comment on an article and the comments make it obvious that they haven't read it... Andi