The Evil Bus Driver

I've acquired a Roco Multimaus DCC controller, but it's incomplete. Does anyone have a power supply and the track output lead available? I tried googling but all that came up was the data cable from the handset to the black box and not the ones I actually need. If anyone has one or both they'd be willing to sell please feel free to let me know via a PM.

That's good as I've got to save up. I'm trying not to miss the first batch but I'm hoping there'll be a second if I do. Especially given the silly money Deltics are fetching on Ebay (one sold for £575!) Then there's the matter of the mk2 coaches. I'd like to see a second batch of those too as I can't save up for both simultaneously. Especially with the lack of Bachmann TSOs in blue and grey. There's one going for £100 on Ebay so no way.😵‍

Will there be a second run of these soon?

Cheers. I've found something like the ones I need but I'll certainly check out Comet. Either way I can't do it til next week anyway. Plus I need to dig the actual coach out of its hiding place too...

OK cheers I'll have a look.

Sprry to exhume this thread again. I've got one but just need to get new roof vents (the round flat ones) as mine are missing. Maybe Replica might be able to supple them or I'll have to make a resin casting of the one I have. It's a shame Mainline went down as retooling their other mk1 coaches to this standard would have definitely made for an excellent train. As it is mine is going into my Airfix mk2 rake and will receive new couplings and metal wheels along with all the other coaches. Albeit once I've replaced those vents.

Update: I now have the boards, rather more of them than anticipated. Once I can get to grips with video editing software I'll start posting videos. I'll be getting another board though, a 4x2ft 9mm ply and getting it cut. The layout itself will have the track on the upper level and the Faller car system around the bottom. More to follow.

The square section of the gangways is a better giveaway as LCHS were rounded at the top, CEP style.

I'm fairly sure the gangway shrouds were hung on sprung hooks from each side of the gangway and fixed at the bottom so they bounced over rail joints. I remember being terrified of walking through when the train was moving while travelling on CIG/VEP stock as a very small child. Those had shrouds too, heavy yellow plastic but embossed with raised 'double arrow' logos as well as grey (rail grey?) painted gangway doors. On EMU stock they stayed relatively clean as these were usually coupled together and pretth well enclosed but on LHCS they got covered on brake dust and general filth pretty quickly as once diesel haulage came in they didn't tend to use gangway covers and so once permanent sets were got rid of the end door would be more likely to be exposed.

My Coopercraft kit arrived and is complete. It's a Mk1 CK I got from Evilbay I'm guessing it'll now be a case of rummaging through assorted kit boxes on traders stands. Maybe I might find a few gems lurking in there. Maybe not, then it's on to my usual '3 wagons for a fiver' rummage boxes that are my other fave. Somewhere is another CC kit of a mk1 FK I picked up which has been split amongst several boxes so once that's back in one place and stripped down I'll see if it's salvageable. Let's see what I can find. I'm sure the wire plus important small parts are still in the packaging and I know where that is coughcoughcough100milesawaycough I can get my second Kirk Brake Third this way as well. That'll give me a Maunsell 3 set. I'll probably buy a similar set of ExKirk kits (a Brake Third- CK-Brake third combo if anyones interested) so I can get a direct comparison so if anyone wants a write-up let me know. I have read the other (now locked) thread over the past week and it was pretty depressing reading. I do hope someone can pick out the salvageable items and fix the moulds and maybe bring one or two items back. I do accept there are items which have been lost. Let's see how it pans out.

I think this is a great idea although j know exactly where Hornby have had their eyes cast to come up with it. I might buy a pack of them and experiment with my own Maunsell stock to see if I like them or not. But not until after building my work table...

I keep doing something similar with Alen barbers in Leamington and reading it as Alien barbers.

Ah thanks. I'll print it off later. Got to go to work now (at 4.30am)

Ah thanks Steve. I might have to print that up and put it in my folder.

This is great news. Will there be an NBC Southdown variant? Or Green Line Dual Purpose? It'd be brilliant to make them easily motorisable and able to use the Faller guide wire system.

Ah thanks guys those will be a massive help. It's just for reference. I'll get the old fibre pen out before I refit them. Plus the crack in the chassis to see to.

Looking seriously good!

Right. Got a minor issue with mine, I took out the brushes for a clean but cannot remember which way around they go on the spring clip. I'm guessing they fit inside the brush copper but keep popping out and only making sporadic contact. Can anyone remember?

There's an idea. Transport it all yto the GCR to help build the embankment on their link.

Looks brilliant! I still need to buy the wood for my boards yet.

That looks great! Nice job there. I'm going to buy a few soon. Good to see how great they look.

To resurrect a thread. Boards have been obtained as well as a massive job lot of stuff including a T9 and 3 Maunsells! A few coach kits and wagons too. I'm not sure what I'll be using it for but it was a bargain. AND Horny repaired the mazak problem. I'll also use this as an opportunity to explore DCC too. A second house move has happened and actually looking at the stock I have suggests modelling the area in 1973 so a 33, maybe a Thumper unit for the passenger service. I'm torn between early corporate image, black signs with white writing or the more usual one, a bit of research here, I think. The updated idea is to have the railway on a raised board of 1.5 x 3ft and a frame of 4 x 2ft allowing a ledge around the bottom. The station will be raised up and the Scalescenes arch bridge showing where the ground works are for the continued line. It will also allow me to put in a Faller loop to allow a few road vehicles to trundle around. It'll only be a figure 8 or something but the 30ft of wire in the starter kit should be sufficient and the roads made up using Woodland Scenics stuff. The Mercedes Sprinter van might end up replaced by a mk1 transit if I can get one. I'll hand build the yard points and use Wayne Kinney's kits for the main lines through the station. I have yet to decide on either Peco bullhead or make up lengths of C&L flexi from rail and sleeper webbing. I'll see what I can get. The line will not be depicted as electrified though. On top of that I have joined Daventry MRC which means it won't get under my partner's feet either so she seems happy about it, plus facilities being better available. Landscape will be of the lightweight card lattice and paper, maybe with plaster cloth on top. Otherwise I'll look at using Sculpt-a-mould. I'd ideally like a water element but that might have to wait until any extension gets built.

Large logo blue is a tad late for me. A small central logo, a la 70s TOPS era is more my thing.

That actually looks very strange indeed. Familiar but not, if you know what I mean. I've seen the moquette on (road) coach seats as well so it must be available somewhere.

I'm not sure. Certainly the number of trains that operate push pull on the 'big railway' means that it can't be all that much of a bother. Class 91s and mk4s doing Edinburgh to London at 125mph spring to mind. I think due to the fact that heritage railways usually operate on Light Railway principles means speeds are lower so the propelling can take place under much more controlled conditions. Just yesterday I visited the Northmpton and Lamport railway (well recommended if you can go) and their Pitsford and Brampton station is in the middle until they can finish the viaduct and the train propelled out of the station towards Boughton and that was a Southern CCT, a mk2 and a brake van. The other option is to top and tail so there's no need to propel anything but you need two locos in steam and two crews. So I'm guessing it'd be a similar situation on the P&BR although the gradients probably mean there'll be a special appendix to take it into account. It'd be interesting to look at their rule book.