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shunter plans

evening group can someone recommend a book with drawings of BR shunters in it...something similar to "BR Main line dies...
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posted by unclewobbly
8 comments posted 20yrs posted by unclewobbly

For our colonial friiends

Subject Something to smile at! Little Billy Ponting was at his local school in Sydney one morning and the teacher asked...
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posted by nospam
8 comments posted 20yrs posted by nospam

Model Railway piants, in larger quantities.

Help please. I hope to be assembling a large scale Class 20 kit next year & will need some paint, but in larger quantit...
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posted by david
8 comments posted 20yrs posted by david

Would this happen in real life

I am fine tuning my layout design before starting to lay track. I am planning to run 5 coach long trains so need platfo...
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posted by kajr
4 comments posted 20yrs posted by kajr

Helijan O Gauge

Is anyone here shocked at the price being asked for the new O gauge Hymek? £475 each puts me off starting in O Gauge -...
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posted by john
34 comments posted 20yrs posted by john

dates (was Image Galleries now online at RailZone)

>> Please! Don't re-invent the "Year 2000 Crisis"! >> Today is 20050919 Sounds more like stardate 20050919:2106 :-)
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posted by malcolm.crabbe
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Bachmann locos - DCC ready?

I notice from the Bachmann website that the forthcoming 57XX pannier tank will not be DCC ready. Having already had to...
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posted by jane
0 comments posted 20yrs posted by jane

Red Jinty: What price now?

Bachmann have just announced a second batch of 500 Jintys in preservation livery, albeit with a different running numbe...
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posted by ntscuser
39 comments posted 20yrs posted by ntscuser

Depth-of-field software for model photographs

A traditional problem when photographing small-scale models is limited depth-of-field. If the foreground is in focus th...
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posted by 85amod
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which glue to use?

Hi all, My son has a Hornby Virgin cl86 loco. Unfortunately he hs broken off a small piece of the bodywork which holds...
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posted by grylion
2 comments posted 20yrs posted by grylion

12 volts DC?

I've been experimenting, and I came up with some strange results relating to loco speeds. As a result I decided to figu...
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posted by jane
5 comments posted 20yrs posted by jane

[AD] 3mm Society Magazines on Ebay

I am selling a number of 3mm Society magazines on Ebay - see http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=697855...
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posted by jumbledup
0 comments posted 20yrs posted by jumbledup

Which DCC Chip?

Hi, I have been happily chipping locos this afternoon, but have had trouble with a Hornby one. I put a LE1000 "Mac Code...
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posted by me
2 comments posted 20yrs posted by me

Loco paint questions!

I'm building a GWR Large Metro Tank engine for a friend and I'm getting close to the painting stage. I've been told tha...
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posted by john.pickstock
1 comments posted 20yrs posted by john.pickstock