Graskie

Sorry, RDS, I have only just picked up on your response re my suggestion for showing regions properly by default. By using that facility I can, for instance, just show my Midland, Western, Eastern, Southern or diesel locos, rather than the whole lot. It's not easy to explain but, normally, when you select a region, it should, to me, by default show the particular region of a specific loco when you have set it up, rather than me having to scroll down to see which box has been ticked. I thought I had set everything to my first region until I realised exactly what was going on. Perhaps I'm being a bit thick but it would be nice not to have to scroll down to see which region I had set a specific loco at. You probably need to have a go at it to understand what I mean.

Yes, RDS, I agree re the default zoom level. I wish mine would default to 50% to show the whole of my layout without me having to change it each time I start the program up. Also I think it's a little bit confusing to set loco regions. It defaults to showing Eastern even if you have ticked one of the other boxes. It should really default to the particular region you set for each loco.

It is a shame, isn't it? I've got 3 9Fs that won't take my sharper curves with their 10 driving wheels. I'd like to be able to get them onto what will be my inner shed area but they won't do it. I reckon I'll have to get rid of them.

It was the same. I had one but decided to move on.

Just picked mine up today. If it works OK I'll be getting rid of my non-sound R2528 35019 "French Line".

My shop rang about an hour ago to say they had just arrived. I will have a Happy Easter now after all. Better than just hanging around.

Just checked with my local model shop. I had one on order but they haven't turned up there yet. Thanks for the good news, though, BB.

Would sucking them make them a bit more flexible or something then, SC?

There are plenty of threads on this site relating to derailments. Basically the locos with front bogies are guided by them and the driving wheels follow. Front driving wheels on an 0-6-0 are heavier and then more likely to derail. Check back to back measurements, slow running to see exactly how it derails etc.

What? And then film them with my hi-def camcorder?

I wouldn't buy it. Sorry, poliss, but it just wouldn't fit in with my more modern layout.

I use the other P make. I use live frogs wherever I can. Much better. Sorry, Hornby.

Brilliant!

And what exactly would you do with one of the Railway Children, poliss?

I just wonder whether this is a good way to make a profit. Kids won't remember it and any serious modeller (including myself, even?) surely wouldn't entertain it on their layout. Perhaps on a Thomas setup.......?

I was so ugly at birth my mum apparently asked if she could keep just the afterbirth instead.

Which particular day of its existence will you be modelling then, Vespa? (lol)

I think you could well end up in the looney bin, Vespa, if you're so desperate to push the model of the real thing at an exact period in time to that sort of degree. By the way, none of the originals had electric motors in them, nor pickups, just to mention but a few discrepancies.

I have just checked mine and it does, of course, come with such items attached. However, I can see no mention of any specific spares at all in the Operating and Maintenance Instructions, apart from saying "Spare parts packs can be ontained from Hornby Service Dealers who are also able to offer a repair service."

The original locos were all loco drive before tender drive came along in an attempt, I think, together with the awful grey plastic valve gear as well, to keep prices down. What goes around comes around, for the better in this case.

Just give him the brush off!

I went DCC with a Hornby Elite several years ago now, more recently in conjunction with RailMaster control. I have loads of Hornby Pullman coaches with lights and they were always perfectly OK with my old DC GM Duette controller. I don't think you necessarily have to convert to DCC, although it is generally a much superior system for running a model railway.

da4472vid said: Im not convinced on tender drive they would always seze up on me loco drive with traction tyers would a bit better i think Graskie said I still can't really think up a new signature. Any advice? how about Class Clown. lol :-)Many thanks, David. It partially solved my dilemma!

I think tenders need to be reserved for sound chips and speakers, plus perhaps rear lights, if that's what you're into. I have a tender loco like that, plus light and smoke on the loco itself. I have seen others with a glowing firebox in addition but I'm not too bothered about that feature. It just doesn't seem right to have a motor in the tender, and having a single motor driving the two units would spoil the appearance with a probably visible shaft revolving between them.

I got rid of all mine because they looked stupid when they occasionally locked up but continued to be moved along by the tender, as if saluting. They just didn't feel or look right either, the grey plastic slide valves spoiling their appearance entirely.