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Thank you for the information @81F. Its the fiddly hooking part I was trying to move away from with the magnetic couplings. The ones in the photos do look very realistic though.

Blimey, that must of taken some working out, thanks for the post, saves loads of questions later

Sorry, you have to of ordered direct from Hornby to be considered as first 😜😂 Glad it’s all gone smoothly 👍🏻

They must be processing them together, who will get theirs first?

Thanks for showing how to setup and operate, seems quite straight forward

Looks good, not sure about that really old suitcase though, my parents had one like that

Ok, thank you

Ok, that's a shame. Do you think its worth sending it back for repair or just get a new one? I do need to think about using my eLink for the points now, trouble is I've run out of USB ports. USB splitters were always frowned upon unless things have changed these days?

One of my 10yr old R8247 V1 accessory decoders failed today after some short circuits, even though I've got a snubber circuit right next to it . Are the V2's more resilient against shorts than the V1's were?

You have to be quite grumpy to earn one of those

Soon gone, like some of the key staff behind it! Shame really, we bought one for our Grand daughter at Christmas and its actually quite good for what it is was.

Good luck with your review next week, hope they see the same issue.

It has certainly got me thinking, especially on miserable days outside like today

For me this is the elephant in the room 🐘, it’s too difficult to browse a sub forum of choice, yes you can do it, if you press enough buttons. Honestly, the sub forums are loosing their identity now to me, may as well have one big one.

Again I am full of admiration for the quality of what is achieved here, I so wish I had the skills and patience to achieve this level of detail, amazing!

Wonder where he got it from, I will guess a retailer?

This may help you..... Decoder wiring

Perfect, thanks for that.

There are some guides here to have a look through to give you an idea of what's involved, just pick one that's closest to your particular age model design: DCC Conversions

Could you post a photo please, that would be really helpful?

I must be honest, I made the same assumption especially with the earlier post saying Hornby were sending pre-orders out in the next couple of days and then the RoS dispatch note. Oh well, it will be when it will be

Thanks @What About The Bee for the info, I agree, options 2 & 3 are the couplings in my first photo with the NEM plugs and ties up with the Accurascale Chaldrons. So option 1 would be what is needed for the Hornby Lion, pictures below shows the tiny hook on the back of that era rolling stock and the link coupling, but I've not seen a magnetic coupling that would hook onto this.

Umm, that part sounds a bit too fiddly for my fingers. I was hoping the chain rings would be large enough, but obviously not.

Yes, a Windows machine is needed, not sure if TGG would work with a VM on a Mac. @96RAF ?

Yes, you have to restore an entire device just to get the one app your after. So to move from an iPhone to an iPad by backup/restore does work, but my iPad had loads of other stuff on it which I didn't want to loose. Some apps do share data through iCloud (eg photos), so that could be a route for the developers to go maybe. Alternatively, data could be shared to Hornby's own server and copied across that way?