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Nice bit of heavy weathering on that Barry. Looks the part.

Thanks Brian - with all that soot and steam I may have to decorate the room

Steady on Barry. Any thoughts of decorating should be countered by a long lie down.
Looks very good.

Happy Birthday Barry

Bob

And a Happy Birthday from me Barry. Pity we can’t celebrate it next to the River Test.

Happy Birthday, Barry.

Many thanks Bob, Brian and Howard for the birthday greetings. Fairly uneventful day , one of my two sons remembered ,but out for lunch tomorrow and it's my golden wedding anniversary on Friday.

I have started to install lighting and maybe passengers into a rake of three Maunsell coaches. In the latest YouTube video of Dean Park Model Railway (27/3) - Dave was installing lights into four coaches. So I have decided to give it a go using the same method, that is, using a LED light bar from Germany (good price on Ebay) and DCC Concepts axle power pick-ups - these are the ones that look like a spring around the axle - I think Steve M used them. I have previously used the DCC Concepts power pick-ups that touch the inside of the wheels on the same axle, but although not a serious problem, there does appear to be some drag with these contacts. For once, I have managed to get the coach body off of the chassis without breaking any of the corner clips. The two middle ones cracked, but I have already repaired those with superglue.
IMG_1179 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

Are these battery lights or DCC?

The power will come directly from the track. I do have two light bars that I saw installed on a Hornby (Key Publishing) video - they had a DCC Decoder built-in, so you could turn the lights off and on, and individual compartments could be lit - but I could not understand the operating instructions - which had to be downloaded, so I gave up - I may have another look at them.