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Thanks for that Going Spare. The trick now is to find a pack!!!!

Hi I own the R3184 Brighton Belle train pack. This is the one which is DCC fitted and has a plug-together electrical connection between the cars to provide ON/OFF table light function across to the dummy car. Was there ever a set of extra coaches for this pack which had the same plug together connections? I have looked at a series of 3 coach sets but they all have standard close coupling plastic connectors or even the standard Hornby bar and hook connectors. These will not work with the R3184 set.

Hi 96RAF Homework completed. Results: Profile version: v3 (the latest) Successfully overwrote the loco address. Refreshed CV's Compared loco address (19) to long address- which was 192 (is this good?) CV29 reports a value of 2. Is this correct? CV 19 showed a value of 16. Reset this value and it went to 0 At this point the engine began to move off (I had left the elite controller with power on for loco 19) So... success. The engine now swaps between HM7000 and DCC without a problem. Thank you so much for this advice.

Wow 96RAF. Plenty of homework here. All I wanted to was 'play trains'. No time today. I will start this process tomorrow and report back as soon as I can. Paul

Well SteveM6 That did not work. The Elite seemed happy enough programming the loco, but it remains stubbornly dead. Fortunately, switching back to HM7000 it still works- no damage done. (p.s I have so far programmed over 20 dcc locos with 100% success in case someone suggests that I am doing that bit wrong). Any further tips, however small and obvious, please let me know. It must be something simple that I am missing.

These are the only mentions I can see in the hm/dcc guides. No discussion about setting up the loco on the elite. Steve, I will go with you and try programming the loco on my Elite controller. When your HM7000 is connected to HM | DCC, you can alter the locomotive address by tapping on the field to the right-hand side of Loco Address. Key in the desired address with your device’s number pad. The address will instantly be written to your locomotive’s HM7000 decoder When your locomotive’s HM7000-TXS decoder is connected to HM | DCC, the control mode will automatically switch to Bluetooth® mode. You can alter the Control Mode of your locomotive’s HM7000-TXS decoder by tapping on the Bluetooth® button for wireless control and DCC for use with digital DCC controllers such as the Hornby Elite, Select or eLink controllers

Hi Folks I have sent two requests to Hornby technical for a solution to this. They have not responded on either occasion. I have the Earl Marischal (21 pin) on HM7000 app. It works fine. However, when I press the 'DCC' control tab in the app, neither my elite controller or Railmaster picks it up. I have set up a train in Railmaster with the same control code as that set on the HM7000 app. Clearly there is another step or two which I am missing. Do I need to put the engine on the program track and set it up there with my Elite controller? Unless I can get someone to confirm this step I am loath to try it as I can find no information on doing this in the Hm7000 manual, and I am wary of damaging the (very expensive) HM7000 loco decoder.

Thanks for that. It helps to get some clarity. I will hunt these down.

Hi I am building up a Hornby layout in my retirement. I once built a huge layout for my Private Boarding school (when working as a teacher there), and never lost the bug. I am very excited by the new high quality locos and carriages being offered by Hornby, so much better than those I purchased back 25 years ago. I wish to buy a small rake of four LMS carriages for my new 'Duchess of Kent'. The new offerings from Hornby are a bit sparse, and I can see that there is plenty of 'old stock' out there of varying 'R' numbers. My question is simple. Which of these offer the most up to date in terms of good detailing (including small sized carriage links), and which four would you suggest to make a good rake?