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I feel your pain, I had both mine and wife’s car serviced last week! That made my eyes water and did think about selling a kidney, however I then thought I would sell one of my daughters! My thinking was that they are newer therefore would be worth more on the open market. I have to say though, she’...

I have a backmann class 37 with a Hornby tt sound chip and it works fine, only small issue I had was getting it to run smoothly but after playing around with the cv’s it runs responsibly well. Sounds aren’t too bad, I ended up putting the speaker in the fuel tanks ( had to remove some weight). I use...

Had a bit of a result this week. For a long time now one of my ageing class37s has not been running well, it has been on the repair and maintenance bench now for some time. It appeared to be a problem with the pickups, I was always cleaning them to no great improvement. So sent an email to Bachmann ...

Thanks for replys, guess I'm going to have to look into alternatives. I'll let you know how I get on.

So, the next project is going to have to be signals. I would have liked to get proper working colour light signals however, looking at the cost of these is a bit prohibitive. I did get a Knightwing kit which were ok but can't seem to find their website anymore (don't know if they are still going tbh...

Looking good mate, you seem to be making go progress. I know what you mean about the heat in the loft though, my old layout was in the loft and some day it was very hot up there. Ended up with a velux window which I could open, that made a massive difference.

I was never a fan of auto's until my wife got a new mini a couple of months back which is a duel clutch auto and now I'm totally sold on them. My next car will check be an automatic. As regards to electric cars, I think we are going the wrong way. I think the way to go would be bio fuels. These are ...

Had a play around with some more old coaches, they’re only loosely based on anything real. Just thought I’d give it a go see how it went. https://i.postimg.cc/p93c9X6K/03-DE0152-715-B-4-DC2-90-FC-4780-BB8-B2897.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Mvw4bHKD/17-E3478-C-206-C-4-DEB-8-B00-A2-BF26379-E15.jpg https:/...

Afternoon guys, no great progress on layout again, however we have had a couple of new arrivals… https://i.postimg.cc/FYGQ6wKw/3-DFAF235-FC56-429-C-A1-E9-637-CF3-BA161-B.jpg :D https://i.postimg.cc/CZQphDkN/67-FA3-D2-E-4649-4-C6-A-8-AE0-F40535-FE9-E6-A.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/XrgVbpsH/AA027-E0-A-CA...

Thanks for the positive comments guys, may now have a look at doing a couple more and make up a full test train.