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This is a general comment, which just goes to show how great the folk here are. If you posted a comment say on a software forum along the lines of "I have knowingly installed a cracked version of the software and want help from those who've paid the full price for the software to give me...

like most people in their 60's we all started our interest in model railways with an oval of track and controlling the locomotive using a rheostat type controller. Then Hornby brings out their zero 1 system where the track remained powered so lighting remained lit even when the train was in the...

When I ventured into the world of DCC I opted to purchase a miniDCC board which was a small PCB with headers to connect the LCD screen, switches and pots. It worked well for several years, but thought it would be better as a module with everything mounted on one board. So a few weeks back I...

60103 seen on a light engine move from the NRM in the small hours of this morning, seen here at Welwyn North

Hi Chaps, I thought now would be a good time to mention my involvement in a project that started almost ten years ago. A few moths ago a good friend messaged me asking if I had any CAD experience, mainly as he knew I've designed 4 layer PCBs for an electronics project. Having explained I've...

Hi, We booked tickets in May for my daughter to travel via LNER from Stevenage to Newcastle tomorrow. The tickets advised of one change, requiring her to catch the 09.56 LNER service from Stevenage and get off at Peterborough and then the 10:52 LNER service to Edinburgh, which arrives at...

Here's a video of 35018 with today's White Rose railtour, pulling out of Stevenage on a blustery morning

Not sure if this has already been posted, but I've just watched a video of a guy using a signal as a vantage point to take pictures of a steam railtour...Words fail me !!

Recorded yesterday, pulling out of Stevenage on a foggy morning

Hi, Anyone know what the delay is with the charter pulled by two 37's ? - running +144 minute late https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U66246/2022-10-31/detailed

I recently acquired an early GF class 08 in excellent condition with a view to converting it to DCC - It was a tight fit, but this is how it went together. (Isn't Video a wonderful thing.... you can edit out all the times you drop the brushes, or the coupler spring makes a bid for freedom thus...

Whilst out walking our dog I noticed a helicopter flying slow, at around 1500 feet more or less where the ECML would be. On getting home I checked ADS and this was the result Guess with all the recent issues with OHLE / Signals / Points they've had of late they are using the helicopter to...

I'm in the process of fitting my linear servo point motors to my N gauge layout. Now partly my fault in that I drilled the hole for the wire slightly oversized in both the tie bar and the rack on the point motor, so there is a little play in the action, but when thrown the servo begins to move...

Guys, A good friend of mine contacted me the other day to inform me that a decoder surplus to his requirements would soon be in the post (his layout is DC). He had picked up a non runner 31 which when opening was found to be a butchered chassis with the PCB missing, but this decoder and a...

Some may recall that I've done a few rebuilds of my layout over the past few years, the latter was on a 244cm x 60cm board made form 3" x 2" studwork framing with a 9mm MDF top. Well life threw me a few curve balls and the layout didn't progress beyond the track being laid and the platforms...

I'm in the process of rebuilding my N gauge layout which is set in the 1960's era with most of the locos in BR Green with small yellow end panels, and I've been on the lookout for a shunter in the same livery. I know some new DCC ready versions are due out later this year, but I still kept an...

Hi, As a kid of seven or eight I used to cycle to Welwyn North and sit on the road overbridge watching the trains go past. I didn't collect the numbers, but other than deltics which were obvious, would try and guess if the trains were hauled by type 4, 3 or 2. Back then we had non of the...

Apologies if this in the wrong section, or already been discussed, and before I get flamed, I'm not in the industry, just have a casual interest in UK railways. With Sundays crash being reported as poor adhesion being a big/main contributing factor, and other posts reporting trains suffering...

HI, Hopefully this is posted in the right forum. There's a listing on RTT for an ECS movement operated by WCR detailed here Can anyone shed some light as to what this is, possible steamer ?

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