Skelton Junction

Those TTAs had an extensive tour of their new home 😃

Barry, these ageing eyes failed to see them all so I could remove them when I converted to HM7000. A salutary tale.

Aye, melted the sleepers too, rendering the piece distorted and unusable.

Thank you both. I’d had a clip melt on the donor point and thought it was due to an incorrect dropper polarity further down the branch line.

Example: if I wish to ensure continuity of current in this head shunt and the outside rail of the donor loop is red does it follow that the r/h rail of the head shunt is also red?

HM7000 with bus in situe I’m taking a branch line to fiddle yard with a head shunt. outside rail of current track is red and inside is black. Get to fiddle yard and understand which droppers go on which rail but does that logic follow for the head shunt? pic/diagram waiting for approval

Also, I'm too heavily invested in the scale, both financially and emotionally, to even consider another and the opportunities it will provide over the next decade are endless

The loft will have to be made layout friendly for the ‘grown up’ version of the R7277 interpretation in the spare room. I’m told by she who must be obeyed that this is agreeable with her.

I concur again, quality products from MS.

I concur.

I found some N gauge ones on eBay that worked well though using a pva glue seems to be as much in fashion these days.

The possibility exists for a RH point here (as marked blue), instead of the LH point, to lengthen the sidings.

Hello welcome etc I like two sets of crossovers myself but concur with this from Roger. “Can you bring the engine shed lines off the outer loop just before the crossover” Congrats on choosing this scale as it’s very pleasing on the eye and decent to work with.

Presently, the Mk2fs will arrive with nothing suitable to pull them. Sad face emoji.

Apologies Peter, duplicated the post on the spring announcement thread so deleted it from this one.

The class 50s that were Spring’24 have now moved to a summer eta.

My membership expires tomorrow and the green 08 shows up with zero discount

Hi Jim, welcome. That looks a solid start. I too have gone without point motors but am going to town on scenery illumination. The more shunting room the better. If you’re DCC I’d expect you to have fed both loops with power and fitted point clips for the sidings.

Apologies for the incorrect link. Noch 60159 is the tt version. https://www.modellbahnshop-lippe.com/Accessories/Different+Accessories/Noch%2D60159/gb/modell_2378.html

Agreed Hobby, doesn’t suit tt120 axles but is happily towed around attached to an original tt tanker wagon where the axle space is a bit wider and accommodates this product.

I’ve found these https://www.noch.com/track-cleaners/60157/ soaked with some ipa do a satisfactory job.

…continued from the replies above. The HM7000 app is free to download and removes the most expensive part of digital control. However, for power you’ll need this https://uk.hornby.com/products/hm7020-psu-solution-harness-digital-15v-4-amp-transformer-r7337 and these https://uk.hornby.com/products/dcc-track-turnout-clip-tt8035

Nice one Chris, seasonal greetings to you and all at CVHR

RM, from where did you procure the tractor and trailer in pic #3?

Ridiculously pleased with the new under-pass lighting