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Thanks for suggestion , I have solved this now after one of my non modeller friends suggested a few things , which ere all common sense and i missed it all . New decoder , Speaker and power bank now happily running .

Hi everyone, I admit that I am not good at handling small parts and always ask for Decoder fitting from the supplier whenever I buy new models . I have been trying to fit a new decoder , powerbank and speaker to two class 43's . R3510 and R1230M ( Railroad ) , both came DCC Fitted . Being larger models I thought these would be ok to fit the parts but am having great difficulty fitting it all in . Are there any guides, links or videos to help me with me . Any help would be greatly appreciated . I have run both models without lights and body shell and delighted with the great performance Keith

Hi everyone, just come across this website link via one of my facebook groups . http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk The link above is to 16000 sound files I carried out a quick easy search using Trains as the keyword and had 295 wav files returned as the results . http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/?q=trains Admittedly a lot of foreign train sounds are included but there is plenty of british train sounds including station announcements for all. This will be useful to anyone wants new wav files and provided you are ok using a .wav editor you should get some good use of it. Another search I carried out was the original posters serach of London Underground. I suppose you can be as inventive as you like with searching to see all the sounds that you can obtain . http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/?q=london+underground if any one finds more useful searches , they could post in this topic. These 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license. For commercial use, you can license sound effects. Access dataset metadata by visiting our dedicated LOD site. If you have any queries regarding usage, please contact jake.berger at bbc.co.uk

I asked at a recent Model Show about Loco Detection - eg is it still an aim of Hornby to bring out LD . Answer was yes but do not ask for timeframes . Someone has got it in there project list but way down before they contact the software and hardware suppliers to restart the project - Keep on waiting patiently !!! A better answer than I expected .

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At this stage , I would not be bothered . I still consider myself very much a beginner but had already thought that one day when I have more time ( eg when I retire in a couple of years time ) I would pluck up the courage to renumber one of them without making a hash of it !!

I was delighted to receive the Class 47 TTS at long last from a pre order with Hornby , then two days later got a notification from a Liverpool shop that another one was on the way. I did mot realise that I had pre ordered two but I am not complaining. I can now double head the two both class 47's with sounds

Ordered the new Eurostar R1176 on Friday night using Sir Frank Hornby's 15% discount and arrived this morning - Great delivery service as usual from Hornby . New Eurostar now fitted with DCC racing around my track with 2 old style Eurostars and Virgin Pendilino . Keith

What's your latest acquisition I have just had 2 electric velux windows fitted in the loft so that I can see during the day without lights and not to have to sweat with the heat when ever the summer arrives. I have also had 5 new led spots fitted to replace all the rubbish lighting I had fitted initially. The difference they have made already is fantastic. In addition I have had a shelf built half way over my layout where I can easily use my Touchscreen PC and Rail master as well as the Elite controller and see all my layout at the same time.