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Newer models have loco drive motors. Hornby used Tender drive with Ringfield motors for a considerable number of years from around the 1970's/80s as the motor was too large to fit inside the loco body. There were two Ringfield motors used 3 pole and 5 pole and then differing means of applying power ...

You can place it in the For sale section marked Free of Charge. But to be honest many people will not be able to accommodate it. But worth another try perhaps

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Are you aware you have a Reverse Loop to the left of point number 14 in the drawing? How are you planning on dealing with this?

Hi Thanks for your reply, I have tried uploading some pics of my layout, in the member layout under Bayview Halt, but they keep appearing in a vertical column instead of horizontally, so have you any idea what I am doing incorrectly. If you look at your first set of pictures, I have manually placed...

The red lead and red socket on the meter are Positive for DC readings. The Black lead and Black socket is the Negative. The meter will read either way around but as stated by Steve M when the red lead is on a positive supply the meter will show this is correct, if wrong way around it will show -ve o...

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Off to polish my Broomstick now

An easier method of checking might be to plug the decoder into a loco sitting on DCC powered rails and with a multimeter switched to its DC voltage range of 20v or greater and see which of the two wires is the Positive.

Hi Guessing now but as the decoder has two wires unused (Green & Purple) I suspect its these two that connect to the Stay Alive boards wires. However, you will need to determine which of the two decoder wires is the Positive and which of the Stay Alive is the positive. Then and only then, join t...