Dan Griffin

Yes it does run very well with a dc controller

Good morning. Yesterday I purchased a 4F loco which I was lead to believe was a Hornby product, as it has a Hornby base plate. The model is lovely and has been detailed and weathered by the previous owner. it has real coal in the tender, screw couplings etc. It even has replacement pick ups on all driving wheels, and its tender driven which I'm no fussed about. the loco is in the 'preserved' fleet so will not be doing a great amount of running. I have never attempted to convert an Airfix GMR model to DCC, and my question is, how do they run on digital? are there any special considerations to think about? It is a simple enough affair to chip it as there are no capacitors or anything like that. The Airfix 4f The replacement pick up arrangement the basic motor and wires. there is plenty of spare room in the tender for the decoder. regards Dan

I use code 100, always have done. two reasons, one its durability. it can take a lot more knocks and bumps than code 75, and two I have quite a lot of it from previous layouts ect, and the cost of going over to code 75 for me is prohibitive. IMO it looks good when weathered and ballasted. it is also handy that when laying fiddle yards and using set track to save space, different manufacturers can be mixed with no ill effects or special joining/translator pieces of track.

the first of 6? is that one for all regions or 6 on the southern? (not that it matters as I will most likely take all 6!) regards dan

I may be wrong, but those tail lights shouldn't light up white should they?

I do feel as a print only subscriber that we do get the rough end of the deal slightly. the digital group get extra content every month, and the garden railway mag this month, surely some of the extra videos would fit onto the dvd that the print only people get? Then I wander round Tesco and shoppers, not subscribers, get a bonus mag. I subscribe to other magazines as well as BRM and I do feel that out of all, BRM offers very little for its print only customers, we seem to play second fiddle to the constant pushing of the digital edition. However Phils piece in tail lamp, imminent arrival and the 31 article I did enjoy this month

start a class 58 pic thread in UK Prototype discussions forum, not the questions part.

Didn't they used to have a section on there that was 'want it now' and you could post things that you were after and get a notification when one was listed.

Having had a think i could make the loop an out and back, so it would make a double track line and have the points back inside the garage, much like the loop that the flyash used to use at fletton. However having just measured up, the out and back loop would be roughly 214 feet long!

Sorry its all 00 gauge code 100 peco track

Good morning. I am in the planning stages of my new layout, and am planning a joint colliery railway/preservation centre branch line. the idea is that this branch will go out through the garage wall and off into the garden, a length of about 65ish feet. In the garden shed at the end I plan to have a loop which will double up as a coal loading point, it will be dcc operation and my question is on DCC operation can you use sprung points, so that a coal train, or indeed a steam loco and three coaches, can run round the loop and back to the garage without me having to go out and move the points myself. On the diagram A is where the railway will run through the wall and into the garden. the blue line denotes where the colliery branch/ preservation centre boundary. B is the set of points in question. the train will travel around the loop and hopefully come back through this point, if its electrically possible, using a weak spring to allow the points to reset normal after the passage of the trains. I understand I will also need a reverse loop module. I have tried to be as clear as possible, and hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

Hi, I have been watching the videos on youtube, excellent work and some really handy tips. It is spurring me on to get my new one started. excellent work and thanks for the videos. all the best Dan

I have seen on the Irwell press website that there is a new class 47 bookazine due out in July written by Tony Wright. If its anywhere near as good as the class 50 one it'll be an excellent read. http://www.irwellpress.com/acatalog/BOOKAZINE.html

How did you form the footplate and how will you be fixing it to the ex Scotsman chassis?

57xx i think, the pannier body that came off it was numbered 4612 if that helps

watching this with interest. I have always liked the remembrance tanks and I am so tempted to build my own following your example.

wish id known, ive just binned a complete run from 1971 to 1989!

Here mine, it runs on a Bachmann pannier chassis and has had some minor surgery inside, new buffers and a repaint. Runs like a dream. the only issue is there is a slight mis-alignment between the Bachmann wheels and the moulded lima splashers, but its hardly noticeable.

Sorry , couldn't resist!

The fifty missing its MU gubbings makes it look strange! lovely layout though

Kevin, it was by no means a dig at you. your publications are excellent.

Hi Leon any update on the layout mate? regards dan

I obtained a copy of this book from the Ian Allen shop at Waterloo along with he class 40 one. Kevin, Excellent in a word, However, I don't know if it stretches for the entire print run but the aforementioned picture of 66789 in my copy is quite pixelated, almost like its a mobile phone picture blown up too big. This is the first time ever that I've noticed a picture that is poor quality in the 40+ Strathwood books I own. regards dan

I was on sunday 07-19 so there a good possibility if you passed in those times!