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TTS equipped 08 Shunter slow to move and respond to handset. When press direction button it speeds off in the same direction of travel and even if switch off power, leave for awhile and then switch back on is still moving even though number is recalled and motion set to zero. Any ideas please?

Made some progress on the backscene relief buildings. To go with the mill, some sort of a warehouse building followed by the backs of workshops leading onto what at the moment is a car scrap yard, corrugated iron clad store. Not sure about the rest at the moment but towards the end a truncated bridge with remains supporting pillars in between the lines suggesting a former mineral branch.

Interesting water feature not often modelled. Look forward to seeing it finished . no idea either! Put it down to a few nights of very poor sleep!

Interesting water feature not often modelled. Look forward to seeing it finished .

Managed a covid free Xmas and New Year with the family and now spent some time thinking about the back scene. With the aim of using up items from stock then settled on Slaters Brick sheets priced 57p from Model and Craft up Dewsbury Road, Wakefield so been in there a few years! idea to produce a run of factory, industrial buildings that could be found anywhere.

Will try as well thanks

Thanks will have a go at both.

TTS 08 opened this morning and have sound but will not move! Grandson wants to see it move! any suggestions welcomed! There is only a certain number of times the horn is keeping him assumed!

All track has now been laid and wired up with mechanical links to the points in place. Decided in the end to simply lay two pieces of track connected by rail joiners as the fiddle yard as will have limited number of wagons to exchange so no need to go mad building cassettes. decided that BR locos will have restricted access and not allowed on certain tracks. The industrial Loco will have access to certain tracks to make exchange a little more complicated. Next step to add a low back scene and end panels and decide where to fit the bridge section. Before then Christmas!

The station building looks very good. Is it all based around the laser cut parts that were cut the other year?

After dinner relaid the point and it works without short circuiting so looks like that was the problem and had an engine running on all tracks without a problem. Just one more point and two sidings to lay. 16 month grandson coming tomorrow so grandad duty.

An annoying short on another point meant tracing it back to finally stripping it from the layout. Fault traced to failure to remove the very thin wire at the frog when modifying the point for DCC. Looks like I should have gone to Specsavers. Disappointing to learn today that daughter who lives in Germany is for the second year in a row not going to make it for Christmas.

Thanks

thanks, interesting that some of the terminals remain open.

Noticed a couple of images with the mail train sets running. Where do they run to and from? Do they use the old terminals such as at Doncaster and who do they belong to? . Thank you in anticipation of answers.

Traced the short circuit. I had neglected to put in an insulator rail joiner! Checking the other points!

Council owned car parks are free for the first two hours. However beware there are some close by that are privately owned and require payment straight away. The Trinity Walk car park about 500 metres away is very big.

It’s going to be well received in the circuit.

Interesting, I did not know that. I know it from Terry Pratchett in one of his books. It’s a little known gate. I thought it sounded northern without being specific to a location. Yes the idea of this little layout is to run some of the transition stock. I built a little lockdown layout called Kiln Lane but although small and easy to put up cannot stay up. This one will live on a shelf and be available whenever fancy a bit of shunting etc.

A little more progress on the road bridge. Tracks still to be adjusted before finally being fixed down, however an annoying short circuit has appeared on the two tracks that have been wired up. Works one way with points switched but when reversed - fault!

Base coat painting and metal work built for bridge.

Mechanical linkages in place to switch the points on all tracks. Wired up one track. Started the bridge that will hide the fiddle yard

Went today and well worth the £5 entrance fee. Standard of modelling is very good across the whole of the scenic sections. Interesting to see that there is already planned Phase 2 and Phase 3.

Spent a productive hour moving wagons up and down checking clearances and a rake of 5 wagons works in the loop and sidings and enough movements into and out of the little yard to make it worth while continuing with the project

More opportunity to track lay. Two dead end sidings to add then test run with stock for clearances and start to wire up etc.