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Thanks for trying, I've been faffing about with this thing for months and not having any luck. The only place I can get the tabs under is on the bit of the double straight where the sleepers are joined and the rail lifted, but only one tab fits here. The centre plate will go anywhere but here! I've kinda smushed it together so I can play trains, haha!

I have a single track Hornby level crossing, bog standard out of the box for manual operation, nothing which should be difficult. Unfortunately, the instructions and all the assembly videos I can find stop when you've put all the pieces together, not when you've got them on the track. Every time I try to put them on the track they either lift the track by about 2mm or the crossings tilt inwards. Maybe this is normal? Do the little tabs actually slot into anything or do you just place them on the layout? If so, where do you put them? I can't make it look anything like the box picture. Instructions do appear to be Hornby's downfall so far, even a beginner set appears to come with items with no directions as to what they are or how to use them. Can you help me out? Thanks.

Yay, finally got logged back in! Thanks for the help. Didn't know there were other kinds of power, so will look out for that with the DBs. Good that I don't need to worry about the pantos.

I've just got my first train and now I need all the others! I'm creating a fantasy railway with all my favourite rolling stock from round the world, just want to double check I can put Hornby 00 track and my Class 43 HST (UK) with the Jouef TGV In Oui set (train and track). I haven't chosen a third train yet but there will be a Deutsche Bahn to join them later. I know there's can be issues of scale between UK and international sets, but I don't mind that so long as they run. In other random questions, do the pantographs on these things fold down? I can pretend to myself that they are accessing third rail power so long as they don't go around with a giant pantograph in the air touching nothing Don't want to feel I have to build catenary for everything. Thanks!