Unfortunately it looks like my DCC sound 15xx is going back. The 1st one i had (1501) had a hideous stalling problem and couldn’t even manage to change direction on a straight piece of track without stalling, But the retailer (Trains4u, who have been fantastic) had no 1501’s left, so we swapped out another chassis off a plain black 1504, As i wanted to Keep the lined black livery with the intention of adding cylinder lining myself. However This has ran ok for the hour or so in each direction running in and now its dead. No sound, light or movement. It will occasionally jerk into life, do a quarter wheel turn, but then stops dead again.
a real shame. Considering how well my Thunderbolt (although original model went back due to stalling!) J70 tram and jacks green run, i’m genuinely surprised as to how poor the 15xx runs.
i think i’ll wait now for a second batch and hopefully the gremlins will have been sorted then.