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Hi ellocoloco, I wasn't aware of any standards either but there are a number of NEM (Normal European Modelling ) available here nem-the-norms.html Rule 110 deals with tracks and turnouts - and I thought they were just couplings :-)

I have a mixed fleet of Hornby and other manufacturers locos and my layout is mainly Hornby track and points. I recently purchased a model of the APT-E, but it derails going forward on right hand curved Hornby points (R8075), with the rear of the front bogie riding up onto plastic frog. Strangely though it is fine in reverse. Their warranty department maintain this is because the points are not to NEM standards and thatI would be better off replacing the Hornby points with NEM compliant ones. Is this the case, as there is no mention of this in the FAQ section on derailments. None of the rest of my mixed fleet seem to suffer from this. Has anyone else found problems with trains derailing on curved points?

Thanks for all the replies. Can I ask - how do you get notified of a response to your post? - I only noticed this by chance today, as I have yet another TTS Decoder problem, but seems like I generated a lot of dicussion. As a treat, my wife got me the Flying Scotsman R3736 Empire exhibition livery. Fitted an A1/A3 decoder and it worked fine until Saturday when it suddenly started jerking and stopped, though the sound was still there. Have replaced the analogue blanking plate and converted back to DC - I have an old R965 analogue controller and the Flying Scotsman came back to life, so assume there is a problem with the TTS decoder and not the loco itself.

I am fairly new to DCC and am having some problems with TTS decoders. I had to purchase 2 A4 decoders before getting Mallard to work properly, so thought I would buy a TTS fitted loco to ensure I wasn't the cause of the problem. I managed to find Maude R3600TTS and King Richard II R3370TTS. Maude works fine and happily goes round the track, but the King Richard just makes noise and doesn't move. Just wondering if there are reliability problems with TTS decoders or whether I've been unlucky. I have a Select controller running version 2.0. I get a 20 followed by a 30 on start up. I've read that the Select Controller is limited in what it can do, but I'm assuming that if 2 of my locos work fine it isn't a problem with the controller or my track layout. Anyone else had similar issues?