dave55uk

I have just acquired a Marklin AC Digital starter set. Are there any other AC modellers on RMWeb? I cannot seem to find any reference if there are.

Thanks Paul, I'd missed that.

I thought the sound chips were in stock?. I had ordered, and paid for, a sound chip and speaker. Had notification this morning that the speaker was on it's way to me, but no mention of the chip.

Nice, but sadly wrong placing of signals.

Now there's the thing. Where I live I have no mobile signal (it's a dead spot in the city). I have the internet and home phone line from the same provider. So when the cable gets cut (and it has been - twice), I lose the internet AND phone, so I have to go and find a neighbour on the same network and ask if I can borrow their phone to ring the fault centre.

Not saying there's something fishy going on, but my rent [housing association flat] for the last two years has gone up by the same amount [within a £ or two] as the amount of increase in my state pension.

Same here - 37140.

I will certainly let him know - thanks Fran.

No, he didn't (silly man).

A friend of mine (not on RMWeb) had his Loch Eil delivered, along with the AS sound chip but not the extra speaker. He says he's not impressed with the sound from the built-in speaker. As my 37 is not due until the end of August, when my sound chip AND speaker arrive, I'll let him fit them into his 37.

'on' and 'stop' mean the same thing. If a signal is 'on' then the train has to stop.

Also, in Germany at least, generally the signalling goes - distant, starter, distant, starter * - so if a driver was to be routed onto some other line than he/she was expecting, then there would always be a distant signal 1km before the next stop signal. And, again generally, signals are always * placed above or immediately to the right of the line the train is on. * - 99% of the time

Terrific map - thanks for the link.

As an added bonus for the Roco Route Controller, you can set-up a whole sequence to operate points & signals, which makes life a lot easier. Each can handle up to 32 different routes and you can a second controller (like I have) if you wish to. The hardest part is finding the things! LOL

True, but I use Roco Route Controllers so it's simply a matter of typing in the signal number and pressing a button.