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How many times larger than life size are those pictures John?

15mm and 15.5mm date back to Studiolith days! They produced two widths of frame spacing jigs, the recommendation was to use the narrower spacing normally, but of your curves allowed it, to go for the wider spacing.

A small lump of turned brass is an awful lot cheaper than a DCC system... Philip Which goes on to produce excessive noise, and wreck motor bearings. The flywheel is used to overcome small areas of dirt on the track, which at very low DC volts, is unable to punch through. Whereas DCC is a much highe...

Go DCC Steve, you won't need flywheels with all their problems ...

The signal above Number 2 is the advanced starter for the box in rear.
13 is above the distant for the box in advance and slots the distant signal for that box.

Slotting is a means that you can't have a distant off, while the signal above is on.

Dave

Basis of an article for the Snooze there ...

A while ago I was looking at a book on Mk1 coaches. The colour pictures showed blue/grey coaches. The blue/grey was not how I remembered the coaches looking. Now, if the colours from the 70s don't match my memories, what hope is there for the 50s - or earlier? Red in particular is a fugitive colour....

Standard WR edging.

Apparently there are 21 of us for our Christmas meal this year.

And, no turkey for us!

Yes, we are going for a Christmas curry

Pass the crackers ...

but the thought of taking a ride in the caisson was truly one that gave me the shudders. You have got wimpy! You used to think nothing of driving a steam traction engine of weight exceeding by double a certain bridge loading. Age caught up ? Have you read the technology of the caisson? The box was ...

That was October 1986!

We effectively 'took over' Chesil for an exhibition, here is my Ivatt 2 (subsequently stolen) in the station.

I dyed mine with Colron dark oak ( I think), about 25 years ago, it was quite dark when new, but faded to a lighter grey.

I don't remember where I got this from, and it's WR anyway!

The reason why I chose the 1826 date (before Stephenson's Rocket), was because an early steam engine was tried along the line. Surprise, it broke the plates. However, I can have a go at building an engine, the horses - well you'll have to see ...

Interesting read, a pity BANES does not give more regard to the historic character of Radstock, merely designating it as an overspill housing area for Bath - 10 miles away.

Thanks for that, all information is useful.

Outram proposed a standard gauge of 4'2" for the country - if he had succeeded (instead of Stephenson), there wouldn't be a standard gauge of 18.83mm, but a gauge of 16.66mm - which is pretty close to another gauge we have all heard about ...

In case you have missed any updates on the workbench, I have been busy building my new layout :P which I'm featuring on RMweb, as it's part of the Cameo Layout challenge. It is not P4, but it does have scale flanges L shaped ... http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/122704-radstock-midfo...

Nothing like getting there early Danny

Your editor will be there on Sunday.

Bachrus for me as well. Covers 18.83 down to 9.42mm.

Umm no

It was because of the lack of competition announcements post exhibitions, I made a point of noting down - at the time - the winners.

Your fearless reporter had his notebook with him, and a bit of time to write it down

Luckily, as Editor, I was writing the results down! Scaleforum Competitions There are four completions at Scaleforum, results were: ● The MRJ Chalice was awarded to a whole layout – Kerrinhead ● The Eileen’s Emporium award went to the broad gauge trackwork on Paul Townsend’s Dartmouth ● The Unsung H...

In W10 I use an app "basic photo viewer" which has a rotate function
(different Tim)

If you are coming to Scaleforum, you could have a look at the traverser on Burnham.

I use a smooth DC controller based on a LM317 chip http://www.ti.com/product/LM317?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=lm317&utm_campaign=app_ldo_ww_p_e_ldo&utm_content=e910e69e-fea0-49b2-8b1e-6312360a3ce5&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0Nqzqfi33QIVzpPtCh2CPgXGEAAYASAAEgLv-fD_BwE# circu...