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Very true, but the station's already as big as it needs to be for a two coach branch line train, and I want that space for the signal box. Not to mention, there'd be less room for the village street scene I want to put down the middle of the board.

Just a couple of photos to prove that I am actually doing something. underhill01.jpg underhill02.jpg The buildings are from the old oval and are just there to give a bit of life. I'm going to build new stations for this one. And here's my latest acquisition. underhill03.jpg I've heard that these hav...

Obvious question maybe, but are you using insulated joiners on the four inner rails, the ones in the vee of the slip? Apart from that, I think we need more info, at least whether your layout is DC or DCC.

Obviously, you are like Oscar Wilde: "I can resist anything except temptation."

Can't help you out, because what you're keeping (pre-war GWR) is exactly what I buy. And (he said pointedly) that's ALL that I buy.

On the ones I've got the little pairs of jaws on the sides of the suitcase connectors are a tight enough fit on the spades to need a fair bit of force to make the connection. I don't think they'll be coming loose in a hurry.

I am actually using code 100 track on this one (as opposed to my stalled end-to-end), because (a) I am re-using as much as possible of the old track, and (b) the layout is impossible to fit into the space available unless I use setrack points - I did do a feasibilty study on AnyRail, and that quickl...

That is a seriously neat piece of layout wiring. The mess I've seen under some baseboards...

Well, it's not exactly small, more medium size I suppose, but I'm keeping it simple. Yes, with digit (not digital) points operation. It will certainly be up and running (after a fashion) by Christmas. After soldering on the first set of droppers to the outside oval I couldn't resist having a test. I...

One way of ensuring that the wire strands don't splay when wiring a Cobalt point motor would be to tin the wire. But the whole point of the Cobalt connections is supposed to be that you DON'T need to solder...

Yes, TimberSurf, that is exactly the set-up I have in the afore-mentioned wiring kit: crimp spade connectors slotting into single suitcases. I shall now be using it with renewed confidence.

Long time no hear from me. Last heard of working on an ambitious round-the-walls terminus-fiddle yard layout I called South Lascombe, I got over-awed by the size of what I was taking on, especially the electrics (20-plus electrofrog points and point motors...), and I am ashamed to say work ground to...

OK, confession time. My real agenda is that a year or three back, in a moment of weakness (or under-confidence) I bought one of these layout wiring kits, and it uses suitcase connectors. I then got cold feet about using it, but now I'm having second (or should that be third?) thoughts. As I said, I ...

'... but very appropriate to describe the process when lying on ones back under a layout.' That is one thing I will go to any lengths to avoid. I would have thought that if suitcase connectors can stand the heat, damp, vibration and God knows what else you get in a car they'd be safe enough under a ...

Last night I was amusing myself by watching some YouTube instructional videos about wiring track, both British and American. What intrigued me about the American ones (apart from the fact that they apparently 'sodder' instead of solder, which sounds a little rude to me) was that it seems to be unive...

Hate to be a party pooper, but... Is the layout going to stay where you've shown it, up against the roof timbers? Because, trust me, you are going to need access to both sides of the layout. A good rule of thumb is that you should never have to stretch more than two feet to reach anything. This is t...