b308 wrote:Whats so bad about the points, Bill?
There were several types of points used during the lifespan of Standard track, the ones that give the problems are the early ones with moving frogs.
This may be due to the plastic warping enough to cause the bogies to ride up over the frogs, the later standard points were much better.
I would like to take this opportunity to explain why I am using standard trackI already have a Tri-ang Hornby layout based mostly on products produced in the 1970s. I collect the old catalogues and try to recreate a layout
using only what was available to hobbyists in 1979.
Using this concept, I am building a second layout based on what was available in 1962 ( this allows the use of Standard, Series 3 and a little bit of Super 4 track as well).
I see my two layouts as a mini Tri-ang Hornby living/working "museum", trying to display as many of the old products as possible in the space allowed.
I have just obtained a marshall mkII controller (1959) for the Tri-ang layout and some 1940 electric cable.
Cheers, Bill.
I do firmly believe in general, that to be credible railway modellers, we need to at least understand the working
principles of the real life railway, even if we are unable to put them into practice in a model form.