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I think the big acquisition was revealed in this morning's Hattons email, the Hattons email database has now passed to Rails Andi

DEMU ran a Minories competition a few years back. Andi

I hope that if someone else is building a model of Ipswich they will be willing to share their research. Andi

An Cat Dubh - U2

Wondering what Photoshop is called in France... Andi

You can sometimes tell when you are in the same room as these kinds of people, just listen and you can hear them talking to themselves. If you get close enough you'll hear what they are saying. "Breathe in" "Breathe out" It's not wise to get too close though, they tend to be unvaccinated Andi

I'm glad that Ipswich is all Mark3 and headspans so reasonably easy to scratchbuild. Ravensclyffe is Mk1 and portals, fortunately I've got just about everything I need for that layout with the winding down of N-brass making the etched portals no longer available. Hopefully someone will bring out a new range of Mk1 to take over from Nick's work, I am not convinced that laser cut or 3d printed will be strong enough for tensioned wire systems. I have no use for the new GWML type equipment but it's good that it may be becoming available to make modelling OLE of different styles possible, I wouldn't want to try to scratch build the GWML stuff! As for the Peco portals, will we ever see them? Andi

Looking at Google maps satellite view there is a crossover from 3 to 4 (as we'd know them) and then from 4 to 5 and onwards around North Kent East Junction. the big crossover from 3 to 6 at Spa Road no longer exists. https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4862825,-0.0459426,251m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu Andi

When I heard of this it was that they were going to be producing the heavy type stuff used on the GW main line. Andi

Which services stop at St John’s now? It used to be the Hayes trains in the later 90s but before that it had been the Bexleyheaths. Andi

Dog Food - Iggy Pop

Ask Lord Bullock of Abbotswood @Phil Bullock Andi

In my experience of the Peco side mounted motor the failure mode is different to the old type under board motors. I had a faulty capacitor that caused a 24v feed directly through one coil. First sign of issues will be the smell! Secondly rather than burning out the coil it melted the armature into the plastic coil former so the thing wouldn't move at all. The coils were both still intact. Andi

But CV29 is easy to set up so they always go the right way! Andi

No Memory - Scarlet Fantastic

You've mentioned access to a z21 a few times in the topic, have you tried the 31 on that? Andi

In that case a double pole switch on the track bus will enable you to totally isolate the track and so restore the accessory bus and change the point. Andi

Yes, double pole. For exactly the reason in my previous post, DCOs only operate single pole as a rule. If you use a changeover type switch with a centre off then you can use one side of the switch to feed via a resistor to charge the caps in sound fitted locos before giving them full current as I mentioned at the show. My switches are before the DCOs but it doesn't make much difference. Andi

Do your point decoders also power the frogs from their accessory DCC supply or are they fed from a track bus for the frogs? If the former then a short from running an incorrect point still has the potential to shut down the accessory bus preventing the point being changed. I would also look at the viability of breaking the fiddle yard into 4 districts, Up high level, Down high level, Up low level and Down low level. That way a fault only shuts down one line. Andi

Buy the modules, I'll build them for you. There are seven of them under Ipswich. The other thing I've found really helpful is having switches that can isolate each of the power districts as well as the DCOs Andi

The internet is your friend https://www.esu.eu/uploads/tx_esudownloads/524xx_LokSound_V35_ESUKG_US_Betriebsanleitung_Auflage_IV_ebook_01.pdf Andi

He was created by the same team as Bagpuss and The Clangers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_the_Engine Andi

You'll be telling us next that you don't know Ivor The Engine next! Andi