Calnefoxile

That might explain why my order for 2 sets of 'BR Blue era Loco & Coach insignia to circa 1978' is still showing as 'Processing' after a week, when the website said 3-5 days for delivery??

Cheers

Neal.

On 07/04/2024 at 03:54, jjb1970 said:

As far as I know the principal radio link with the submarines is the transmitter at Skelton near Penrith and a secondary link at Anthorn outside Carlisle. 

When I was in the Air Force, back in the 80's/90's, I was posted to RAF Stornoway and used to work at RAF Aird Uig, where we looked after an LF transmitter for the Navy to talk to their Subs via Morse Code. It was a huge machine, rightly known as 'The Beast' it had been there since the 60's, I believe, and had not had a Frequency change on it for years. 

I remember one weekend we'd been doing some servicing on The Beast which meant we had to point the output to the massive dummy load, which was in a locked room and crank the power output up to 75Kw. This Servicing was going very badly and we had multiple issues, which meant we were very late handing it back to the Navy, which should've been done by 18:00. We finished about 18:30 and pointed the output back to the 600' mast outside the building and went and had some food, just as we sat down to eat the lights in the building started to flash and the tv started switching off & on. My Corporal & I stared at each other wondering what the hell was going on, when I realised that we'd not turned the output power down from it was on the Dummy Load and The Beast was now drawing so much power when it was keying up that it was affecting the Mains Transformer in the village as well, as all the lights in the village were flashing as well, I legged it to the Transmitter Hall and wound the Power output back down to less than 50Kw which stopped the Power Draw.

Cheers

Neal.

17 hours ago, Scottish Modeller said:

Gareth,

 

I'm holding off on ordering the N Gauge stuff I want until I can be sure about the prices!

 

Thanks

Phil H

 

 

Mmmm Now if only someone deciced to make RTR Warwells & Warflats in N Gauge 😜😜

Cheers

Neal.

Ok so I received the YaMoRC Booster and connected it all up, but I don;t seem to be getting any signal from the B-Bus from the Z21.

I've got an RJ11 cable from a telephone which is a straight through cable, is this correct or is there a specific B-Bus cable needed??

Cheers

Neal.

Thanks all for the information. I decided to go with @WIMorrison advice and ordered a YaMoRC YD7403, not quite the power output of the NCE Booster, which is 5A, but at 3.5A it should be sufficient to keep a few sound fitted locos ticking over.

Thanks

Neal.

Dear Hive Mind,

Is there any way of connecting a Z21 Start (White) to an NCE Booster?? Is there a special cable required to utilise the B-Bus between the Roco Product & NCE Product??

I only ask because we tried to connect up the Z21 Start to the NCE Booster via the B-Bus sockets with a straight through 4-wire cable and the Booster is not seeing a signal from the Z21, when we connect the NCE booster to another NCE Product with the same cable everything is tickety-boo, which suggests the Z21 has an issue with the B-Bus socket or a different 4-wire cable is required, i.e. a cross-over of some sort??

Any clues??

Cheers

Neal.

On 10/03/2024 at 14:56, steverabone said:

All current Traction subscribers should get a letter in the next 7-10 days notifying them on how their subscription will change. Their new BRM/Traction subscription will take effect from the BRM April issue which subscribers will get around the middle of March.

Steve,

Thanks for that, I got my letter a day or so ago.

 I have to say, so far, much to my scepticism about it, I've really enjoyed Traction being in BRM, although you did start of with some cracking articles, the HST one is fascinating and gave an insight into running HSTs on the Western region that I never knew. 

Doesn't mean I've read the rest of BRM though, sorry @AY Mod 😜😜

Regards

Neal.

On 24/01/2024 at 12:31, AY Mod said:

 

I have asked for clarification Neal and will come back to you.

Any news on this @AY Mod

Cheers

Neal.

On 01/02/2024 at 14:58, Dunalastair said:

I should have asked @Geoff Endacott how his layout came together all those years ago - the one linked photo seems to be broken. 

I'm afraid you'll have a job, unfortunately Geoff passed away very suddenly a couple of years ago, and although we, BMRG, still have the layout much of Geoffs research was lost to us when his laptop went  to his family.

The layout is still available for exhibitions, if anyone is interested, and there was an article in the July 2022 issue about the Layout.

Regards

Neal.

Will I get a refund on my subscription as I currently subscribe to BRM & Traction?? Or will my BRM subscription be extended by my remaining Traction subscription??

Regards

Neal.

On 12/12/2023 at 10:51, rekoboy said:

During last week's stay with our friends in Brandenburg I paid a visit to my favourite model shop in Ziesar and was tempted into buying a limited-edition Auhagen kit for a small crane, the Weimarer Lader, which was to be seen all over the GDR at industrial sites, cooperative farms, goods yards.....As you can see from the first photo the parts are tiny, and not necessarily suited to a 68 year old with sausage fingers and declining eyesight! The kit was a real challenge - and is still not quite finished as the hook has vanished somewhere on my desk! I was joking with Herr Ludwig in the shop about the message on the box stating that the kit is suited only to experienced modelmakers - but the kit is no joke! So far I have invested about 4 hours. A further photo will follow when the hook is found or replaced!

Rekoboy,

Looks good, will need to get one for Rennsteig.

regards

Neal.

36 minutes ago, Steven B said:

@Trains4U are you still planning on scaling these down to N?

I'd like to swap my PG Models pewter Warriors and CVR(T)s with something my locos can haul...

 

Steven B

Yes they have Steve.

They had some at Warley, although I only bought some OO ones for my Cavalex warflats and my imminent purchase of some of the new Hattons Warwells.

Cheers

Neal.

On 01/12/2023 at 17:43, queensquare said:

Edit to say I’ve just reread this and I do come across as being a bit grumpy - I’m really not. 

Yes you are 😜😜

I'l ask Kim next time I see you both 🤣🤣

Merry Xmas

Neal.

34 minutes ago, The Fatadder said:

I really need to get my P4 wheels swapped so I can get the 158 working again...

Which are in my possession 😁

After spending the whole weekend on the DEMU stand, I still managed to blow my budget with the Traders. 😜

The booking in of my car was a faff with the NECs Yoyage system with no option to tag my vehicle as a vehicle for unloading on the Saturday morning, only option was as a delivery vehicle, so I gave up and the NGS kindly offered to transport the Stand for me.

My only very small observation for the Organisors would be.......please, please, please could Societies have some Tea/Coffee vouchers?? It is a long day and we've, well DEMU, don't claim any expenses but some free Tea/Coffee would be appreciated.

Other than me moaning about getting the Stand in, once we were in and running it was a very good show and a good opportunity to meet up with friends and to talk Trains for a weekend....Oh and do some modelling 😜😜

Regards

Neal.

7 hours ago, The Fatadder said:

Getting ready for Saturday on which I will be on the DEMU stand A20, will be working on weathering some Cavalex CDAs, along with a couple of other wagon projects.

 

I will have the SSA, Cargowaggon, some of the china clay TTAs and a sea urchin or two on display 

 

Will also be looking to speak to current / past members about some of the changes we in the DEMU committee are currently working on, along with thoughts for the future.

Well you might be on A20, the rest of us will be on A40 😜😜

See you all there on Saturday & Sunday flying the flag for N Gauge within DEMU.

Cheers

Neal.

On 21/11/2023 at 13:34, Cowley 47521 said:

Interesting, thanks for that. I’ve seen these for sale and was wondering about getting one. There’s plenty of cheap Siphons on eBay and you can get them unpainted so I might try and tackle this as at some point because they also ran on the Barnstaple line in BR blue days.

 

@Calnefoxile - I just tried searching that thread but no joy. Would you be able to give me a link possibly?

 

Nick

Nick,

I think it was either in an NGS Journal or one of @grahame latest tomes of wisdom, in fact I think it's in his latest one 🤔🤔 British N Gauge Railway Modelling (issue No.4) 

Cheers

Neal.

12 hours ago, Wolf27 said:

I can’t even get past the initial make a booking tab, it flashes up then disappears and take me back to the card details screen. It’s either broken or so crap it given up on itself in disgust for being so difficult. 

I managed to get my car booked in but only as 'Restock Vehicle' for the Saturday morning between the times of 07:30 & 08:00, which considering I'm coming from deepest darkest Wiltshire means I need to be out the house for 06:00 at the latest and then I can't guarantee to be there between those times.

Anyone know what is happening for breakdown on the Sunday?? Will it be a free for all to get a parking space near Hall 5?? I don't need to get into the Hall for breakdown, but I can't cart the stand stuff all the way across to the Car Park!!

Regards

Neal. 

Sorry for dragging this thread away from discussing the Modern Army but I came across this YouTube Channel the other day, https://www.youtube.com/@MrHewes this chap restores Military Vehicles, well brings them back to life more like and seems to have a hearty collection of Chieftains, Centurions and a couple of their derivatives.

Regards

Neal. 

16 hours ago, Cowley 47521 said:

This week I have been mostly messing around with parcels stock…

 

I keep hitting eBay after a couple of glasses of wine and buying Big Four vans to add to my late 1960s era rake of vans. It’s something I can run on Moors View and Lapford (well that’s how I’m justifying it anyway). Here’s a couple of post weathering photThere’s all sorts in there, although I could really do with a Siphon and something LNER for the full variety.

The Lima Syphon is actually a pretty good model although you'll need to change the Bogies for the Dapol B-Set ones, @grahame has done an article on this very subject a few times. I've done it on a few of mine and they look much better for it.

Cheers

Neal.

22 hours ago, TT-Pete said:

 

Black coffee 2 sugars, but not between the hours of 10:00 and 11:00.

 

Yep, just like my women, Black & sweet - just don't tell the wife 😜😜😜

9 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Gadzooks! A VT18/16 again! The second RMweb reference in a fortnight, the previous one being in Johann Marsbar's photos, of a prototype. I hanker after an HO version, but haven't been aware of one - N and TT seem to be the only offers. 

I'm sure I spied one on Jools Hollands layout on Pete Watermans new programme last night??

Cheers

Neal.

1 hour ago, grahame said:

Being at the less London Bridge end of the layout and where I've squeezed in the Old Kent Road gas holder station diorama plus being behind the viaduct it will really need a tall building, I thought I'd have a bash at a tower block from further down the OKR towards New Cross Gate. It's a block I lived in, in the very early 70s on the 7th floor, so a little nostalgia.

 

The pic below is from how I remember it and will attempt to make it, but since then it was clad in all grey (which has subsequently been removed due to the fire regs) and is now in terracotta brown/red tiles. It looks worse now than it did in this pic:

 

 

Grahame,

And no, you can't have the low relief one you did for Hedges Hill Cutting mate 😜😜

Cheers

Neal.

All these 'Orribly Overscale Carolines look lovely.

I can't wait for my N Gauge version to arrive....whenever that may be 😉

Regards

Neal.

38 minutes ago, The Fatadder said:

  Cant believe its only a week to go until the show, feels like I have rather a lot still to get done before Friday!

Why??

Are you re-gauging it again to TT this time 😜😜😜

Cheers

Neal.