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Hi captrees and welcome to the forum.

Mountain wrote:Start with a budget trainset and go from there!

Exactly what I did! DCC too!
I didn't even know the museum was still open. I may have to investigate.
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Further to my earlier comment, I received an email from Gaugemaster today announcing thier FREE bi-annual open weekend. Lot of layouts in all sorts of scales / gauges form Z upto O plus narrow gauge. 1st and 2nd September. http://www.gaugemaster.com/openweekend.html Also they have a G scale day THIS...

Happy GDPR day to all. :mrgreen: Nothing much going on at the moment although I did manage to get hold of a couple more Dapol WCHASS10 chassis's and have now replaced the broken one on one of my limited edition Cornwall wagons. I'm still waiting on wood and have yet to rewire/resolder the offending...

Railway people big and small.


And the next photo will have.... Small but powerful.
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I think so yes, although I havent visited the large model shows like Warley et al. I tend to go to local or club exhibitions like Crawley MRC's or down to Gaugemaster for thier annual exhibition. A lot of what I photograph whilst there is for inspiration and great ideas I can take "onboard"...

Hi hallmodelrailways and Welcome to the Forum.
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I honestly don't know Bufferstop. I went via his ebay account rather than his site.
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b308 wrote:"Collectors"...

Ahh! I hadn't considered that.
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Another day, another email from Hornby telling us about all thier new products... none of which are any good to me. And here we go again with Hornby's crazy ideas....... If a model is new tooling WHY ON EARTH would you make it LIMITED EDITION? https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/new-arrivals/hitachi-i...

I received a message back from the seller who states...
"Hi there, yes they will fit but you need to squeeze the axle boxes to make the wheel run free. Thanks Peter"
Excellent. That will eliminate those pesky plastic wheels!.
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Forgive me Dad-1. It was just the first video that came up on YT. I could have chosen any one from hundreds listed for the example.
As for "although SOME DCC systems don't like them." That to me is called incompatibility.
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I fell upon this today. A proposal to build a new miniature railway tourist attraction at Mawgan Porth on the Cornish coast North of Newquay. https://cornwallrailway.co.uk/ "Passengers will enter the themed indoor station to board the waiting train. With a blow of the whistle and you will be of...

Just some meanderings... With the advancement of 3D printers I wouldn't be surprised if a few niche companies came into existance even if just for body shells (decorated or undecorated) for existing chassis's. I think for entrants into the hobby one of the biggest bug bears must be size of any propo...

For most the Hornby R8249 decoder will fit in and I have them Aren't these rather large compared to say a Lenz or Bachmann 6 pin decoder? In an 0-4-0 I doubt you'd need the extra pins unless lighting is required being that space is a premium in such a small loco. Might make it easier to install too...

Not exactly a Pug, but DCCing an 0-4-0.
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Hope it helps.
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