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Currently 'Water under the bridge', I'm moving on. Deadline Month End ? One of my last jobs has been to do a station sign, as far as I can make out the original Bridport Railway had black background to white letters. I can manage a raised edge, but the letters will have to be flat printed, yes I kno...

Potato Timbersurf ? More like a big rock in the gearbox. All I can say is Hatton's are on the customer service ball, I had a reply by 09.13 this Sunday morning. I was nervous knowing there have been, obviously still are, problems with these. Bufferstop I have reason to believe you're correct that th...

The layout rotated and all joined together to see how the various elements mate up. Rather pleased with the gravel access road, a very good join on a rising gradient. Now to get on with the station fencing and unkempt ground between the platform rear, extending to this boards end. I'm having to rais...

It took time for that grass to dry out enough to run a drill through the holes to clean up ready for fence posts. https://image.ibb.co/ftCvre/IMG_2823.jpg No depth of field in the image, funny lighting with dark shadows and full sun through my shed window. At least you get the feel of my signature m...

Hi Michaela,

Very neat and clean construction.
I do like your weathered one at the back.

Geoff T.

O.K more pictorial stuff ! Here we have all the grass edging done out to the gravel station access road. That access road has changed little in the last 120 years, but of course the old yard is now a car park, with the station building being an up-market cafe. The cafe currently has an old GWR carri...

There are certain incompatibilities and quite honestly you don't quite know what will and will not !! The most extreme Ive heard was a Bachmann loco, Bachmann decoder, and I believe Bachmann controller !! All the recent Hornby R8249 decoders are fully NRM compatible, but that's no guarantee it'll wo...

Superb Jim,

Can't say much more ..... I do look forward to your 'new' work postings.
I could so easily loose an evening just going back through this thread !

Geoff T.

A few days gone by ......... West Bay's cattle pens coming along, just need to finish painting. Screwed back onto the baseboards and merged into the un-metalled lane surface. A gate removed for adding the sand surface and some grass verge grass. https://image.ibb.co/k9f7n9/IMG_2814.jpg My Bachmann '...

Pretty well everything covered already. I will add that for serious shunting the best option I've come across is using Kadee couplings. They are expensive when many wagons need converting and they are demanding in their set-up for reliable operation. There is still a serious limitation in that you n...

Hi Bufferstop, Yes, but yours was working. Mine started having uneven running, then ceased almost as if no pick-up, but it's loaded with lead and one test was to re-programme another address. I heard it take the change, but still wouldn't run. After a second strip down and thorough check including p...

Thanks for that, quite impressive.

Geoff T.

Hi John, On a finer scale track we're looking for slightly finer running gear. I've had my S&DJR 3F in pieces as well as the clubs open cab Pannier tank. While the 'Keeper plate' that holds the wheel sets in is exactly the same product L-5698 on both locomotives the actual chassis has some diffe...

Hi Michaela,

Nice, but I'd like to see where & how your automation holds and rotates traffic.

Geoff T.

I hate Cork !! There is always a 'But' ........... If you use Peco track, code 75, or 100 you can get an adequate shoulder from the sleeper depth. Obviously the same regarding any of the code 100 train-set tracks of Hornby, or Bachmann. My 'But' is regarding SMP track and Marcway hand made points, p...