Yeovil Town through the shed
Skip Navigation LinksHome > Search

Search

Page 2 of 4

Section switch

A switch used to energize or isolate a section of track.
/glossary/388.htm

Club Night with DCC on Yeovil Town

Last night I had a snag list for the Yeovil Town layout.  Phil Busby and I produced the previous week whilst testing the track now that the final legs had been fitted.  We found various plac...
/blog/yeovil-town/72.htm

Automation Magic!

Yeovil Town has seen some impressive demonstration running due to an extra memory chip being added to the ZTC 511.  We now have 46 preset routes which work amazingly well.  A loco can be tak...
/blog/yeovil-town/855.htm

Landslip at Yeovil Town

After replacing a couple of H&M point motors the base board was replaced.  The alignment proved a problem and after much investigation one track was deemed to be at fault.  It was by an ...
/blog/yeovil-town/landslip-at-yeovil-town.htm

Opps!

Ok, so Yeovil Town did not quite work correctly last night... We got someone to clean the track and they were a bit too enthusiastic and the track cleaner was not up to the job so we ended up with li...
/blog/yeovil-town/791.htm

Egg on Face!

Ok, I put my hands up.  When we tested the currupt locomotives on the rolling road we used the main ZTC 511 controller (on the programming track).  They ran ok in both directions and then it...
/blog/yeovil-town/2763.htm

Trains Jim, but not as we know them

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...
/blog/yeovil-town/3364.htm

Progress Tracked!

There is nothing like an Open day deadline to concentrate efforts on a layout! The problem with the point motors being out of sync has been fixed with some programming.  The new temporary track ...
/blog/yeovil-town/progress-tracked.htm

It's all upside down at Yeovil Town again!

We are on the last pice of fiddle yard track wiring and the end boards have been upturned to wire them up.  We have had slow but steady progress recently as my hallway needed major domestic work ...
/blog/yeovil-town/2391.htm

Operations mode programming

The process of changing the decoder's CV's while the decoders are operating on the layout, instead of on the programming track.  This method of programming decoders does not interfere with the op...
/glossary/473.htm

Sorting out the mess

After fixing the issue of point motors doingtheir own thing when they want to! We tested the main track with several different types of locomotive; An Intercity 125 with a full rake of coaches ...
/blog/yeovil-town/2744.htm

Building a DCC Fiddle Yard

This is a project for our Yeovil Town layout.  For most of the time Yeovil Town will be used at the club house for members to run OO trains and as a better means of testing new locos and rolling ...
/modelling/building-a-dcc-fiddle-yard.htm

Building the Baseboards

OK, so there are as many ways to build baseboards as there are to cook eggs! but we can all learn from the experience of others.  I built my base boards 2ft by 4ft 2"x1" timber framed l...
/building-the-baseboards.htm

Automation just about there

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...
/blog/yeovil-town/Automation-just-about-there.htm

Time to dismantle but then forge ahead

We are finding it very slow travelling to the clubhouse to model small areas of detail on each board so we are moving most of them back to my garage where I can pop in every so often which is what wor...
/blog/yeovil-town/3340.htm