Dagworth

8 minutes ago, Classsix T said:

An option not available to Oliver Cromwell unfortunately.

 

C6T.

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

Just now, Johnson Street IEMD said:

Hi Andi,

 

Yes, they are doing the double track single mast gantries and they appear to be doing them in the GWML style but also possibly may be adaptable to the similar ones seen on the WCML as one of the pictures i have seen has vertical boom at the end of the horizontal, its hard exactly to describe, but i plan to adapt these, as soon as i get my hands on them ...

 

Kat :-)

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

3 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Does that apply to New Cross, too?

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 

1 hour ago, ThaneofFife said:

only replying here as I couldnt find a west hill wagon works section but its OHLE....

 

apparently they are now producing OHLE kits which is news to me.  first heard about this last night on a Dean Park you tube video.......doesnt anybody know what has been announced as all I can see is the double track single mast stanchions.  they look great but hoping for other types.

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 

2 minutes ago, Phil Bullock said:

And I do suffer from occasional prop shaft failures …. 

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

Andi

No Memory - Scarlet Fantastic 

16 minutes ago, Tinsley no.3 said:

I asume you are referring to the power supply and yes, I do think that it could be that because looking now I can still find them for sale for £10 so I'm bit dubious, I could get a actual roco power supply but I want to rule out the decoder so I can get a refund if it Is the decoder. 

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

Andi

Just now, Phil Bullock said:

You are right! No seperate point decoders, integral to the motor and on the cobalt Digital the frog feed is from the same feed as the motor itself which will be the accessory bus. 

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

2 minutes ago, Phil Bullock said:

Cheers! And thanks for the offer, but already ordered the extra IP-CBs this morning! Switches also good idea do you use double pole ? And before or after the DCO? 

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

1 hour ago, Phil Bullock said:

Accessory bus … a ring bus encompassing all 20 boards to seperate track and accessory power.

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

36 minutes ago, Phil Bullock said:

Am in MERG but as I said I don’t gave the time to construct electronic units … the layout scenery, signals and rolling stock are more than enough!!!

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

8 minutes ago, Tinsley no.3 said:

Good solution... if I had the instructions  😅

The internet is your friend

https://www.esu.eu/uploads/tx_esudownloads/524xx_LokSound_V35_ESUKG_US_Betriebsanleitung_Auflage_IV_ebook_01.pdf

Andi

7 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Is he related to Thomas?

He was created by the same team as Bagpuss and The Clangers 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_the_Engine

Andi

5 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Wow! Fifty years and this is the first time that I have heard of Bagpuss!!

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

Andi

You could try turning the sound volume down, that would help to keep the decoder cooler as it won't be working so hard.

Andi

3 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

... but what were the options ?

 

Yellow = First Class

Green = implies 'safe'

 

.... what else would be conspicuous ? ....... orange - now that looks welcoming !

Red has always meant catering

Andi

27 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

they were denoted by a red band at the cantrail.

We as traincrew thought this was a really well thought out PR move, let's paint the stock that you're likely to get murdered in with a blood red stripe!

Andi

10 hours ago, 33C said:

Eastsouth-Worknet! 

or...Tsaehtuos-Krowten. (Supreme leader of the twerking-from-home.)

 

It's late...  

NextWeekSouthWorst

39 minutes ago, Peterem said:

At the time the regular semi-fasts to London from Gravesend and the Medway towns ran via Blackheath and Lewisham, so 2 trains an hour each way would be 4-CEPs.

Very rare to see any express stock on those trains, they were EPB until they went to Networker.

Andi (Charing Cross driver 1988-1997)