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My OH and I visited there in September, and we were not disappointed at all. It is definitely worth a visit. There are lots of humorous touches around. As Timbersurf said, they are constantly working on new sections, but it takes time. The Italian section has only recently opened (and very good it i...

Push CV3 and CV4 up further yet. (I rarely use values smaller than 60.) Then you have to exercise proper control and discover what speed limits might apply on the layout, in particular because it take a long time slowing down from speed. I tend to use initial values of 25 and 18, respectively, for ...

Waz, be careful which DCC Concepts decoder you order, as they have two sizes of direct plug-in ones; you need the smaller one for the Radial.

The crimson colour was notoriously difficult to capture properly, particularly as it changed appearance depending on the ambient light and also on the photographic processes and films at the time. Many of the model manufacturers got it wrong. Lima and Mainline had it too dark, Triang had it as maroo...

Agreeing with Jim here, the last blood and custard coaches wnt around 1963, and even then they were rare. I think the very first BR blue and grey coaches were in late 1964, but 1965 is the safer date to adopt. As for the green coach in Scotland, several Bulleid coaches were sent up there still in gr...

My Oxford Rail 30584 has a DCC Concepts Zen direct decoder fitted, with no problems to report.

I agree with flying scotsman123 with one exception: the maroon non-corridor stock was lined, at least initially, but later repaints seem to have been unlined. It would be accurate to mix unlined crimson with lined and unlined maroon between 1957 and 1963. It would also be accurate to mix lined and u...

It may well be worth a repaint. While you are at it, you can correct any detail anomalies, and shave off the moulded handrails on the fronts and replace them with wire. I had a Lima body I detailed some years ago, and put it on a Hornby RailRoad chassis. I had to make up the cowlings from plastic ca...

Hi, a well meaning relative has bought me a Railroad Class 31 in Dutch engineers grey that is too modern livery for the 1960s era of my layout. Not wanting to offend her by selling this loco I thought of fitting a replacement body shell to the loco. I understand that this was originally a Lima prod...

There are also the non-gangwayed 57' or 59' coaches - Bachmann did the BR standard types, Dapol offer the older LMS type, Hornby have some new LMS and LNER types, and there are also the ancient Graham Farish OO nondescript non-gangwayed and corridor versions, which came in all of the Big four liveri...

It'll be ESU or Zimo (most probably the former), not Dapol's Imperium, which is a non-sound decoder. As Paul said, CV63 for ESU, CV266 for Zimo.

I know that the ESU ECoS has what they call a 'sniffer port' that allows the use of other manufacturers' controllers. A friend of mine has the ESU system but we never actually got around to trying out one of my NCE cabs on it.

That's a beautiful job, D605Eagle.

As you said, now a manufacturer will announce a RTR one. However, all is not lost, because it will probably take another five or six years to make it to the shops.

I can vouch for the model's magnificence, but I have not, as yet, tested its hauling power. For anyone panicking about finding a 12-pin decoder, Metadyneman has typed it dyslexically, and it is, in fact, a 21-pin interface (no criticism intended here). https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1960/45559953391...

... Always check flangeway clearances with the coarsest wheel sets you possess ... That's crucial advice and there's a further 'traps' to be aware of in this matter. I think Bachmann have been the most recent offender with their E4 0-6-2T, putting the pick up wipers so low on the wheelbacks that th...