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15xx Pannier is the station pilot engine, seen here parked in the head shunt . I tend to use a tank engine as a pilot to release locos from the front of passenger trains, and also to shunt the goods yard. The platform lines have crossovers, but I rarely use these for engine release.

city Leave the people here behind Searching for adventure It's the type of life to find Tired of doing day jobs With no thanks for what I do I'm sure I must be someone Now I'm gonna ...

Thanks Neal - totally agree about the benefits of RMWeb. I have to say the sound from the upgraded speaker exceeded my expectations, (even with the smokebox speaker disconnected). I can see me running Torquay Manor more often Clive

Collett Goods heads towards Harewood Halt. In other news and thanks to Neal @Neal Ball I've upgraded the speaker in my Accurascale Torquay Manor. This is the second time I've replaced the speaker. The original sound was underwhelming. The first upgrade was a larger flatter speaker which only marginally improved the sound. This time round I copied Neal's technique as outlined on his thread, (basically cut away part of the coal space in the tender and fitted a bigger speaker). Huge improvement in sound. Now a match (sound wise) for my Dapol Manors. So thanks again Neal.😀

Class 117 on the diesel refuelling road. Also available in colour

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

The road to Dewchurch

spine If you're into evil, you're a friend of mine See my white light flashing as I split the night 'Cause if good's on the left, then I'm sticking to the right I won't take no prisoners, won't spare no lives Nobody's putting up a fight I got my.....

Good spot, probably accounts for the blades of static grass stuck to the buffer stop as well😃

16xx Pannier stabled in the Turntable spur siding

View towards the buffer stop in the goods yard spur siding

Thanks Brian. Best Wishes Clive

The other end of the canal

Thanks Sweet pea. It was the first scenic bit of the layout I completed. I adopted the @MrWolf (and others) technique for the water (several coats of gloss polyurethane varnish), I tinted the varnish with Woodland Scenics water tints. The varnish was painted on a sheet of clear plasti-card, which I've cut to fit between the canal walls. The canal walls are 7mm embossed plasti-card, the walls on the tow paths are 4mm embossed plasti-card. Towpath surface is Redutex cobblestones. Best Wishes Clive

😄Hand of God I'm afraid, or maybe a sister boat. It occurred to me I'd never taken a photo of the narrow boat from the bow end. Problem is it looks as if the boat ran empty both ways. So I probably need to add a removable load, if I'm going to pose it heading in different directions Best Wishes Clive

Thanks for the compliment and for visiting my thread. I'm trying to take more photos of the parts of the layout which rarely get seen on my thread. Best Wishes Clive

The canal

On The Silent Wings of Freedom - Yes

Another photo of Curran's back yard, including redundant private siding

This is from the archive, and been posted before, but not in Black & White. Photo taken when the steam locos were on holiday

Andy - I think Neal dis-connected the smokebox speaker, so only using the Youchoos 4ohm Clive

Thanks Rob, very kind of you to say so and for others to agree. I must take some more photos of the layout. Dr Beeching will never find Dewchurch so it is safe in it's own little world. I also need to start building my next tank project. I really enjoyed building the Centurion last year, so have been tempted by another 1/16th scale model, this time the U.S Abrams. Clive

Thanks for posting this Neal. I think there is a huge improvement in sound volume and quality. I think I'll have to do the same. I did replace the tender speaker with a larger flat speaker (so no surgery required, apart from removing the factory fitted speaker). The sound was only marginally improved IMHO. Can I ask did you remove the loco body to disconnect the smokebox speaker ? It is a lovely loco but definitely let down by the low volume on the sound project (for those of us who are fans of DCC sound). I wonder if Accurascale will re-engineer this to fit a bigger speaker in the tender in future releases ? I guess not if the sound fitted versions are selling well despite the volume issue Thanks Clive

Collett Goods shunting at Dewchurch

Blue Pullman speeds through Harewood Halt