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I use MERG decoders with my 50200 (with Cobalt motors), they work very well. They are £10 for a 4-output module, so about a third of the price of the ones you mention. Yes, you do have to join MERG, and build them yourself, but it's very easy and I enjoy doing it. I realise that not everyone wants g...

BrotherWolf wrote:I wish I was on Sanday, been to Westray a few times.

I like it, but I miss trees. I've been to the Forest of Dean a few times, and sometimes I wish I was there!

Steve

I use a small heat gun as used for embossing etc; I pinched it off the wife

Seems to work OK; you can get them for about £12 on eBay.

Steve

I believe so, yes, but I can't claim to be an expert. I just know that a Class 46 isn't a Deltic

Steve

mjb1961 wrote:hi steve,the one you refer to is the one i have bought more than likley,d188,or 32-702dc,i

Ah, OK, I was confused because you said you'd bought a deltic.

Steve

They must have sold out of the DCC-fitted Deltics now. The only DCC-fitted model they have now (apart from the DCC sound Deltic) is a Class 46.

Steve

The last one was in March, so I guess the next one will be the same.

I subscribe to Model Rail - I'll dig it out, thanks. Locoworks - the two points are side by side at a double-track junction. I didn't plan very well, and it's going to be impossible to fit a motor under one of them. But it occurred to me that in this situation, they may as well be switched together,...

But how would you actually do it? I have some piano wire, but I'm not sure of the best way to get the single wire from the motor to operate two throw bars.

Steve

Does anyone have any ideas about operating two sets of Peco OO points with one slow action motor (i.e. a Cobalt)? They are adjacent to each other on a stretch of parallel track.

Steve

Yeah, well, looks kind of OK, I guess.

Sorry - seriously, that looks absolutely amazing.

Steve

I've made 18 orders with Hattons over the last 3 years, totalling over £3000, and I have never had any problems with their site or their service. The only problem I had once was that one small item was missing from an order, which they promptly replaced. I don't have a local model shop, not even one...

Well, no, because they only seem to have contact details for 'sales', 'marketing', and 'webmaster'. I guess I could try 'sales'...

Steve

I have a couple of 1:50 inclines on the layout I'm building, and I wanted to make sure I got a good even slope, so I used Woodland Scenics 2% incline sets. I'd used these before on a previous layout with good results. In the same place on each incline (between the third and fourth section, going up)...

Thanks, everyone, that really helps. Heaton looks good, and in the right area, but I think I may go for something like Witham; having looked at some more pictures of it, and on Google maps, I really like the look of that, and the station in the plan could even have been based on it. For some reason,...