Dagworth

The 117 is a completely different body profile, it won't look like an AM4, you need to start with Mk1 based stock. Andi

Damn, reading this thread has left me craving not toast but crumpets! Andi

Have a look at Ravensclyffe http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/3288-ravensclyffe/ that's a very complex one man project in 8m x 4m with a 4 scale mile mainline. So far it has taken me more than ten years and there's less track than you've got. That's DCC and computer controlled too so I understand where you want to go and have been there. Also I am now 50 years of age, I've never really not been involved with building layouts, this is the second big exhibition layout I've built on my own. I spent much of my teenage years learning with some large club layouts. You say that you've not had any real involvement in modelling since you were thirteen but as far as I'm aware you haven't told us how long ago that was. If I was you, I would start with something much much simpler that you can get running in a short space of time, use it as a proving ground for your automation/interlocking etc. You will never get reliable running with long trains on set-track radius curves (or pointwork!) If you want long trains then you really need to be looking at Peco streamline pointwork at a minimum, and flexible track with MUCH gentler curves. Andi

Used to get runaways when I used a pair of ZTC 511s, never had one since I ditched them. No other changes made on the layout. Andi

My merry droogs may disagree with you... Andi

I thought it was Jeremy Corbyn's fault http://www.southendnewsnetwork.net/news/400000-kfc-bound-chickens-found-in-jeremy-corbyns-london/ Andi

Sorry! At least you didn't give yourself concussion like Mrs D did on Dagworth when it was in my lounge! Andi

Sir Hatt, I think you may be thinking of different clips, these are the ones designed to de-isolate a Hornby train-set point https://www.Hornby.com/uk-en/Hornby-digital-electric-point-clips.html Andi

If I was team leader I'd end up pulling my hair out, I'll leave that to a man who can't do that Andi

It's going to be interesting, I've put my name down as part of a team that I've mostly not met yet! Having followed some of the other team members work here and elsewhere and having worked on many exhibitions and multiple layouts with the "team leader" I'm looking forward to it. Just got to hope we get accepted and that I can be available for the times needed. Andi

I tend to think of the Hornby clips as being for "train set" type use. If you have the ability to solder wires to track you will have far greater reliability than relying on the clips. Andi

I renewed mine this month, the old one was out of date by ten years so I couldn't do the online photo part and had to get photos signed. I filled in the application and paid online, then printed the forms and got my photos and off to the post office. New passport back 8 days later! Andi

There is a modern era magazine that has been published for a long time, four(ish) issues a year. It's call UPDate and published by DEMU. http://www.demu.org.uk/update.php Andi

I don't think you've missed the boat yet, applications are still open. Email the TV company. Andi

A friend only got a successful resolution to an issue with Just Eat after posting about it on their Twitter account. The story made the national news a month or so back. Prior to going to social media they offered her a tenner for the "inconvenience" of having received sexual text messages from a delivery driver who only had her number because he had delivered her take-away food. Andi

yes Andi

Won't be buying any of them then.... They should be white. I could understand it in the days when small white LEDs were either very hard to come by or stupidly expensive but nowadays they are cheap as chips. Andi

Are they red and white or red and yellow? They look very yellow in your photo, same as the markers on the Ped Andi

Sorry, my pick got stolen, I've only got a shovel now (I guess someone else took my pick?) A

on an 87? Thought the roof was fibreglass panels to allow light in Andi

7 years, Keith died this day in 2011 As you say, decades too soon A

Miss you Keith R.I.P.

Did someone say 304? still a long way to go but the bones of the dinosaur have been dug up Andi

Red marks denote plastic joiners. You only need one feed on the inner rail. Andi

I use something like these for track power https://www.molex.com/molex/products/family?key=standard_093&channel=products&chanName=family&pageTitle=Introduction&parentKey=wire_to_wire_connectors (I'm using DCC). I use the twelve way versions for six busses around the layout (5 power districts and 1 pair for a reversing section) For low current connections (signal lights, point control relay feeds, track circuit inputs) I use 37pin D connectors https://www.rapidonline.com/truconnect-37-way-solder-lug-plug-15-0515 Andi