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  1. Calimero
    Another one I remember and loved, and it was quite simplistic was the Gauge 1 Guilds layout at IMREX every year. I loved it and was fascinated by the operating, block bells and telephones :-) The Southern EMU a personal favourite. Is that layout still about?
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    Bob Hegges 'Crooked Mountain Lines', even now I'll spend ages reading and looking at the pictures in the model railway book I've got :-)
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    Ok, NCE Powercab wired up and tested that power is going through the bus. TSC decoder arrived this morning and plugged into a BB7200, it works!! :-) . Also wired up one of the cobalt motors and that works!! :-) Next steps, do the rest of the points once the toggle switches arrive, lay the remaining track once ordered from Hattons, get four more decoders although they'll need wiring in :-s. Oh yes start a thread on here.

  4. Calimero

    Apologies for posting so many stupid questions on here. Anyway thanks for all the answers, happy chap now as just connected my NCE Powercab and bingo my BUS is working. Little blip which was a connector not properly attatched but I'm up and running. Points are fitted with cobalts and nearly all wired up and just some more track needed.

    1. beast66606

      beast66606

      NO need to apologise, we are all happy to help

    2. DonB

      DonB

      All we need is reports on your progress...

  5. Calimero

    Apologies for posting so many stupid questions on here. Anyway thanks for all the answers, happy chap now as just connected my NCE Powercab and bingo my BUS is working. Little blip which was a connector not properly attatched but I'm up and running. Points are fitted with cobalts and nearly all wired up and just some more track needed.

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    so after yesterdays disaster, i've purchased some new thinner tips for my solder iron as well as a helping hand :-) Done three points for the DCC conversion, no melted plastic :-) New points should arrive tomorrow so when I get home from work i'll solder those and crack on with the track laying :-)

    1. Platform 6

      Platform 6

      Good on you! Practice makes perfect. Welcome to the burnt fingertip club!

  7. Calimero

    Turns out I am s*** at soldering, that's three peco points into the bin!! Back to the drawing board and do I really need to do all this just to run my trains!! Thinking about giving it all up :-(

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    2. DonB

      DonB

      \\\\\\A couple of photos in the help section showing your disasters (we promise not to laugh), and the tools and solder & flux you are using. Help is at hand from the knowledgeable crowd on RMweb!

    3. Trebor

      Trebor

      Clean the workpeice first, bit of liquid flux, small blob of solder on the tip of the iron, bring to fluxed area and sizzle, its tinned, strip end of wire, dip the stripped end in same said flux, another small blob on the tip and zap the wires tinned, snip the tinned bit down to the size required, bend to shape as required, bit more flux on the area to be joined, hold in place with one hand introduce cleaned tip of iron with other hand, wait for solder to liquify, removed iron, swear whilst f...

    4. Calimero

      Calimero

      New tip, a lot thinner seems to work ok. Done three points now alright :-)

  8. Calimero
    Quite a lot of the branch still standing at Takeley, Easton Lodge etc also even at Stortford you'll see the remnants. Great Dunmow has probably fared the worse! I read in a book that one of the original plans was to connect the LUL from Ongar to Great Dunmow!
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    Will watch this with interest as it's the area I grew up, I lived between Takeley and Great Dunmow and my house backed onto the line. A good book to get if you can is 'The Bishop's Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree Branch' by Peter Paye. This area of Essex was really good for railways with the Thaxted branch, Saffron Walden branch and of course pushing down towards Maldon, Tolshunt.
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    I always liked New Annington as it was always prototypical. It even progressed as BR progressed so electrification went up and resignalling occurred. Is it still about?
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    Here are some 60 photos if you are interested. 1991 I think, Bishops' Stortford yard, stone train from Croft worked by March men. Think it was shut down and left because of the snow. By 1996 I had signed Class 60s and they were regulars on ballast workings for Mainline then EWS, this is my loco for the day. Sadly this was the beginning of the end, I was made redundant and what was once BRs flagship loco was being used on ballasts!! Just worked into Crewe from Carlisle and on passing the old depot saw these today. Once they worked steel, coal, petrol, aggregates and chemicals....... now they just collect pigeon droppings.
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    One Saturday night big relaying job at Kentish Town on the NLL. Worked out to site a train of Whales and a Shark with the ballast to drop (a Postal 47 I recall?). One line had been lifted already and we were brought in on the other and held there. The line was lifted in front of us and then the good news came in, we were supposed to be the last train in to drop the ballast! The train with the track panels was behind us and the train with the diggers, cranes and flatrols with diggers behind that. Handbrake on and shut the engine down and away home after about 3 hours. Think the line was shut for two days while they rearranged everything.
  13. Calimero
    If you got a 37 in dutch you could always model my train. Also on one of the pages on here I posted some pics of Leyton with various CE wagons. Also check out this site http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brdepartmental
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    Cracking layout, I've followed the progress on here about 'Glenuig' but never made the link between it and the one in Model Rail, duhhh it's all in the name. It shows a small layout can still look realistic even a loco and two MK1s, this has given me food for thought for my Irish layout which could run similar lenght formations (well a loco, EGV and 2 Cravens) Q. What length are your platforms (I estiimate no more than 3 1/2 foot)?
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    That's just wrong!
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    The most sad post I've ever read on RM Web There is something fascinating though about derelict and disused railways!
  17. Calimero
    Thanks, all for the input plenty of help here. Having looked into I'm still undecided, only thing going against Tillig is probably the cost? SMP, Marcway etc is a good way to go for scale and accuracy but cost and building the track is a bit beyond me unless it can be done with a hammer and a watering can! I also notice that this isn't the first time I've seen Code 83 being mooted as an acceptable alternative, although little choice with Peco as they only seem to do a small selection and no slips. Keep the fight, ideas coming re. the best track.
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    Having built my baseboards and got my track plan sorted I'm ready to acquire my track and start laying. I orginally planned to go with Peco Code 75 however reading some magazines, posts on here and other sites I notice that there seems to be a growing popularity for Tillig track. What's the best Peco or Tillig, should I change to Tillig? I looked on some web sites and I notice that the Tillig slips are either inside or outside slips, not sure what that means, Pecos are just slips. Thanks
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    I think on the South Western 455s when they first came out had two roller blinds one on the left side and one on the right. One would be the destination and one would be the origin. on 313s on the Woolwich Richmonds you set both blinds front and rear to the destination.
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    Audley End and Littlebury, if you didn't know. I'll agree with the snail speed layouts, Mostyn was at Chatham 2010 and what a brilliant layout but slow. On the flip side layouts that have too much running on it and at the wrong speed. Layouts that have a preserved theme so that one can run every loco and bit of rolling stock they've ever owned. The layout with one DCC controlled loco, usually a 'Chopper' that sits on the buffer stops revving it's nuts off. Agree retaining walls, retaining walls with low relief buildings, retaining walls around locomotive depots, TMDs that are really by size LIPs. Layouts built with loving attention, that then have to have a pink dinosaur or something equally stupid to appeal to kids.
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    Thanks, the locos (IE 141s) have NEM pockets and most of the wagons although kit/scratch and conversion will be rebogied/underframed using Bachmann products so shoul all be NEM pocketed as well. I've read about the height guage so this will be a must but need to sort out correct couplers to get round those second radius curves. Are there any retailers UK that sell a big selection?
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    I'm fitting Kadee couplers for my layout can anyone help me? What are the best ones to fit to 'OO' stock? The layout has 2nd radius curves on it so are there specific types for this? Thanks all
  23. Calimero
    From what I know Conflats were run over the route and there is a photo somewhere of a test train of Conflat type vehicles behind a 31. Banana traffic ran as far as Easton Lodge for Fyfes/Geests warehouse and this was really the only regular freight at the end, prior to that was the beet for Felstead which had a big plant (I believe it wa recent they knocked it down) and general freight When I went to work for BR at Stratford we ran up to Braintree with units, this would make a good layout especially if you ran over length trains as we used to so 8-Car 312s and 321s on short platforms and at Braintree you had to walk down the track to get into the cab. Chatting with some older Drivers they used to work to Braintree with UKF fertilizer trains, formed of the vans like LIMA produced probably behind 31s.
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