cromptonnut

I think it's just the weather, I've heard the same from several stores. It's far too hot in the shed or loft for any real time unless you have aircon, and the demands of us on the garden to cut grass, water things, trim bushes, weed beds etc do tend to get 'nag factor priority'. I'm concentrating on building my shed at present, once that's done and I know what I need, I'll be in for some bits.

*** WE HAVE A DATE *** Hi all Sunday 19th May has proven to be the most popular date so that's the date we are going to go with. I've had assurance that the hall is available that day, and awaiting paperwork as the clerk is currently on holiday. If you would like to participate, either private message me with your email address, or email secag@mail.com, and I will send you the application form paperwork. You can then either post or scan and return this to me and we'll start putting the plan together. Many thanks 'Nut

It appears that Sunday May 19th works out to be the best date overall, based on discussions and possibilities. I am currently awaiting confirmation that the hall is still available (although there's no reason it shouldn't be) and once that is confirmed I will then start a new discussion with booking instructions. Apologies for those showing interest that did not vote for that date, however I hope that some of you can look again at your diaries and perhaps shuffle round your commitments? No date will ever be perfect.

Don't forget, it's the AGM for the Weak Bladder Association this week. If you can't make it, give us a tinkle.

I recently started a dating service for chickens. Business isn't good, and I'm having trouble making hens meet.

Realtimetrains shows it (9J59) as cancelled throughout due to a planning error http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/W64339/2018/06/12/advanced I think it was replaced by 9Z59 which ran an hour earlier from ECR: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O08291/2018/06/12/advanced based on it showing as 56 early.

Most likely Horsham. The Horsham services through Redhill have gone over to Thameslink now, and go up to Peterborough. It's been badly affected on those trains due to lack of driver knowledge.

Unfortunately when we are the 'public face' we get all the grief - people rarely think that we don't decide what trains run and what ones don't, which ones skip stops, and don't have on board staff in the right place at the right time to take their train forward. A lot of people also don't realise that we suffer just as much - or at least those of us who use the train to get to work do, I can't any longer as the one train I used to get on the one shift that did work, going in I now have only one option that gives me 7 minutes before I start otherwise if I miss the connection I'll be late, and the train I used to get home now goes 4 minutes before I officially finish leaving me a 50 minute wait for my connection - and for the latest shift, that is the last train to connect with my last train to home and if I miss that connection I have no other choice but about £60 in a taxi which really does not appeal. It's just less stress to drive even with overnight motorway works disrupting my journey in at least one place every day somewhere. Unfortunately we've been hit quite hard in this area because the Horsham trains that were the mainstay of our London Bridge services have gone over to Thameslink to go through the core, and those are the ones suffering the most for various reasons that can be found all over the news and don't need repeating here, although none of them involving Poundland cooking chocolate. Also we've lost the direct Tonbridge and Reigate to London services which have caused big gaps in the timetable and a lot of passenger misery. Changing at East Croydon, whilst a solution, is never a pleasant experience whatever the time of day.

It's not much fun the other side of the window either, although that's probably little consolation.

No direct LBG-RDH between 1651 and 1803. Sadly 1707 and 1737 change at the hellhole known as East Croydon are your options during that period, or go for a pint and get a later train. It's all gone a bit Thameslink... and I'm scared to visit Poundland now.

If your connection A-C changing at B is late and you miss your connection at B through no fault of your own then the train company are obliged to get you to your destination. However if you have split your ticket A-B and B-C and you get stranded at B then there is no obligation to get you onwards B-C. A lot of people don't realise that.

Journey planner shows 28 minutes for Gatwick Express, or 32 minutes for Southern, between Victoria and Gatwick as average timings. I'm not sure that a couple of minutes makes much difference although the point about luggage is definitely valid. On the flip side, being on a rammed platform or train and watching a 90% empty GatEx go past non-stop is very frustrating.

That was due to the Epsom Derby... anything and everything they could replace with a bus was sent to Tattenham Corner to strengthen services.

I think we are several decades away from 'sports hall' style meets, but it's interesting to know how all these little things can make a difference, and the multimaus issue you mention above Suzie caused much head scratching on the day last time.

So 2 wires go to "M" which presumably is 0v?

At least as far as the "Dave" / Britmod-OO / whatever standards go, points and accessories should not be controlled by the main bus anyway so the point related issue shouldn't occur above. So basically with what you're saying above, is that I only connect M A B from the command station to the connector on my 'control box', then M and L to a 12v DC supply, I can then plug everything else (including the computer adaptor) into that faceplate and go from there? I have a tray that holds my base station, power supply and has an LA152 xpressnet adaptor on it so everything is in one place.

I would be quite happy to buy one of those power adaptor connector thingys, please message me with a price and contact details for paypal if you are willing to sell

Rocomaus screwed our system up last time because there isn't enough power on the control bus to accommodate it, I need to get round to adding some power to a patch panel to make it work, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Are you interested in joining a modular meet next year near Andover? Info on the link in my signature.

No reason you can't build a module ba14eagle, you could get a kit or ready made baseboard and decorate it with plenty of time to spare The standards are here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/88537-rmweb-modular-project-standards/ Although there may be someone else in the group that would appreciate your help with their boards?

Part of the invitation pack paperwork, as well as getting details of the modules on offer, asks if you have any controllers you can bring along and what type, as well as the WiThrottle via JMRI to my Lenz setup. It worked fine last time however we did have a problem when someone plugged a Locomaus in as I didn't have a powered controller bus, and I can't find the instructions for how to wire something up to add power to extend it. Somewhere in my storage I have a box of long DCC and power cables that will be very useful, when the shed comes in a couple of weeks and I move all the boxes out there it'll surface. Having a second controller system available anyway is good as a backup set - and if it's not necessary it can work as a programming track for the inevitable address clash.

We tend to standardise on tension locks by default. However the principle we used last time that works is that you are responsible for bringing complete trains to run. Therefore, if you bring a train with kadees, then your loco and stock (unless others have bought them) are the only things you can play with, rather than user A dropping wagons and user B taking them forward. We only have a small number of people, and unknown modules, at the moment - last time most of it was single track with passing places too, meaning there wasn't a lot of "playing trains", more "run from A to B then back again". I have no problem with a few of you bringing compatible non-tension locked stock, and working out your own system of cards, computers or whatever to give wagons a purpose - I have no knowledge of such operations so it'd be up to you to organise and within the general melee of how things run. I'll be booking the hall, administering bookings, taking money, and (with discussion) putting together the layout of how things go together on the day. Everything else is flexible, as long as we are clear in advance and everyone knows what they're doing. If a couple of you want to discuss in PM kadee-based freight operations to run on the day that's fine, the rest of us can just run our passenger services along and you can slot inbetween - just like the real thing tends to. Oh I guess we ought to talk controllers as well. Last time I bought along my Lenz based system with a couple of controllers and laptop through JMRI with some WiThrottle connections. Do we stick with this, or do the majority of you have other controllers you can provide with someone else responsible? A WiThrottle link would be most handy.

I wouldn't worry too much Zomboid, if we can have pre-grouping steam passing a Class 70 hauled freightliner, the road markings being on the wrong side of the road will be the least of our worries