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Thank you for all your replies. :) I am old school philosophy and I believe the layout operator should be the train driver, the signalman, and shunter, so I will be keeping the layout mimic switch panel. I certainly would not go down the road of a fully controlled DCC layout including point signals ...

Thank you all for taking the time to reply and I am grateful for the considered advice. My HD locos draw between 600 - 750ma so cannot use the Hornby TTS for drive control that is why I was thinking about piggy backing them to a more powerful drive decoder. As somebody said however it could be a lot...

This issue may have been discussed before and I know it is a personnal preference, but I would be grateful for opinion. Most of my locos are 2 rail Hornby Dublo with some later Hornby. In fact it was my intention to collect at least one of each of Hornby Dublo locos and rolling stock. I never caught...