Very broad interests but perhaps focused more on BR Midland - Derbyshire, Notts and Lincs areas in late 50s/60s - Wirksworth, Buxton, Cromford & High Peak in particular - Also GC Main Line around Nottingham + any Industrial railways (NG and Standard). Old enough to remember C&HP in working order, Trent Junction Station, Derby Works in full flow, Windcutters at Nottm Victoria, prototype Deltic at Grantham and a few other things I miss.A believer in modelling to capture the feeling/atmosphere of the time/prototype even if some details are not correct and of the right to run what I like.
Grrrrrrrrrrr! Spent hours, swapping decoders about and testing on a Hornby Fowler Tank only to find the problem was a (large) solder bridge between two pins underneath the DCC plug. It ran perfectly on DC. Poor quality soldering job made me think I had two bad decoders.
It was weird as everything showed data correctly on Decoder pro - just wouldn't run properly. Actually it did run on DCC - at full speed and wouldn't stop!
I had the same issue with one a few years back. The chip started getting hot and smoking when I put it on the track. It took a few mins to work out what was going on
