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Just bought a couple of these for the house. They're LED in Warm White and are a complete replacement for our existing ones. Not only do they use a fraction of the electricity of the old ones, they start immediately, are only 1 inch/2.5cm depth and fit flush to the ceiling. Useful if you have limite...

Why not just ask the Peco Technical Bureau if they will repair them? I recently had two double slips fail because the blades became loose in the tie-bars after many years use, and kept popping out causing derailments. Peco said send them to us and we'll fix them. They replaced the blades and tie-bar...

Boxshifters are limited to a maximum 10% discount which is why their prices are all the same. I believe this restriction is for a limited period from when a new model is first available.

Two new TV series start on Monday January 7th:

BBC2 - 6.30pm - Great Alaskan Rail Journeys (Michael Portillo)
CH5 - 9pm - Extreme Railway Journeys (Chris Tarrant) series 5.

I've set my video....

At over £1 per metre it does not come cheap. Solenoid motors have been around for decades so why has this need not been realized before? As you say, I suspect it's purely marketing... Even with just 4m length, factor in the motor cost, accessory switch if using live frogs, CDU etc. then a much bette...

I would also recommend talking to DCC Concepts about the problem. This issue has been reported elsewhere with these motors and they may well have a solution for it. Generally speaking, bus terminators (or snubbers) should only really be needed with longer bus lengths, typically more than 30ft in len...

The Zimo MX638D is a better decoder than the Lenz and also much cheaper at £20.

eg https://www.coastaldcc.co.uk/search.php?search=mx638D

Have you tried Howes Models - https://howesmodels.co.uk/product-categ ... al-spares/

I believe the wheelsets are common to many of the locos.

Driver obviously forgot to put the handbrake on before he got out to check the problem …

The train was deliberately derailed as that was the only way they could stop it.

News online here - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-06/ ... e/10469802