Yeovil Town
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phowes | 
24th Jul 2020 at 17:05 | 2944 views
We have updated our TrainController videos list as more have become available. You can find the updated list at www.ymrg.co.uk/computer-control/traincontroller-gold-videos2.htm
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phowes | 13th Jun 2020 at 20:50 | 2173 views
This is the first time I have been able to publish one of the automatic sequences. This is a test sequence where the dwell time at platforms has been reduced to save time. The quality of the mon...
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phowes | 11th Aug 2019 at 21:02 | 1748 views
Automation on a railway allows us to run the same train on the same track at the same speed in the same way many times. We all know the Murphy's law that states a train will run 19 times with no...
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phowes | 19th May 2019 at 19:44 | 1307 views
Well it's 7 weeks to the YMRG Open Day and Yeovil Town needs to impress. Progress to date is that the scenic areas of the layout are now almost complete and Automatic running applied to 3/4 of t...
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phowes | 02nd Feb 2019 at 00:35 | 1306 views
For some time now Yeovil Town has been a difficult project with my wife Olivia and I trying to grab as much time as possible to complete the "Garden" area for scenic effects.
It has been qu...
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phowes | 31st Dec 2017 at 09:42 | 2141 views
After changing a TT300 point motor in the goods yard in November which appeared to male before break on the micro-switch we discovered that we have a further 3 units causing the same fault in the fidd...
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phowes | 10th Dec 2017 at 01:20 | 1559 views
After exhaustive testing we conclude that we can't run a ZTC USB Interface together with the Lenz USB interface on the same PC without problems! They both run ok individually but we now have had...
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phowes | 01st Dec 2017 at 00:41 | 1574 views
A short delay for attending the NEC over the weekend means we have bought more signals and controllers. We have managed to operate the Dapol signals via the ZTC 511 using DCC. The task now...
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phowes | 15th Nov 2017 at 04:02 | 1483 views
The main computer (mini Tower Dell) has been set up with Traincontroller Gold version 9 and installed at the layout. I updated to version 9 to keep us up to date with the latest software and its...
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phowes | 03rd Nov 2017 at 09:27 | 1490 views
It's been a long time coming but we have now completed the wiring for feedback modules under the layout. Some people fit just a few sensors to their layout to save cost and gain automation betwe...
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phowes | 04th Aug 2017 at 15:51 | 1568 views
During open day the baseboard for the goods area dipped about 5mm in the middle as it must have had some excessive weight on it sometime in the last year!
We are planning to remove it and add st...
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phowes | 01st Aug 2017 at 23:37 | 1752 views
Well it was a frantic time getting ready for the YMRG Open Day in July. Keith managed to complete the new track-work for points to and from Yeovil Junction just in time but Olivia and I had a bu...
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phowes | 25th Oct 2016 at 16:32 | 1702 views
The boards are now fixed together never to be separated and the surface sanded. New cork has been laid and sanded so all is well for the new track to be fitted.
I now need to plan the electrics...
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phowes | 22nd Sep 2016 at 09:35 | 1815 views
We have finally made some headway with the new track on the new front boards. The boards were designed many years ago and by chance the joint between two 6ft x 2ft boards lies directly under com...
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phowes | 01st Sep 2016 at 11:03 | 1877 views
Having stripped down the two scenic boards that have been partly completed and removed them to a shed at home to complete the task we stripped off more boards from the front of the layout so that the ...
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