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Computers have taken over

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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A makeover for the website

You by now have seen that this website is now only about the Yeovil Town station layout project with the Yeovil Model Railway Group being transferred to a new website. The change reflects a change in...
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Website to target over 1000 pages

Currently there are over 810 pages on this Yeovil Town Model Railway website.  Our first target is to reach 1000 pages but eventually this website will consist of tens of thousands of pages so it...
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Contact

 For all Yeovil Town enquiries Who: Paul Howes Tel: 07768 116654   ...
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Life in the fast lane...

As a software engineer I should have know better.  Once Yeovil Town had been fitted with DCC Accessory Decoders and CDUs we could not only operate each point from a common ZTC 511 (Sort of signal...
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Up in a puff of smoke!

Well after lots of hours of automatic control the system of Yeovil Town failed.  We tried swapping out the ZTC controllers, the Power Booster, the leads etc. and could not track it down.  Th...
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The sucker punch!

 Not some kind of fight at the Yeovil Town layout but a new bit of kit that will help the viewer and user experience. Yes, guessed right, it's a vacuum cleaner.  Much under rated we are fin...
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Gee Wiz...

Last Saturday on the Yeovil Town layout saw yet another milestone with a ZTC 304 and CDU working 4 of the H&M points as though they were made for each other.  Some very simple wiring and two ...
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Signals are changing

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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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...
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Don't take a fence!

After laying a 24 slab patio at the end of the garden we traveled to the club house to continue with construction of brick sided platform.  This is a narrow platform and is primarily used for arr...
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Computer Control

I came back into this hobby about in 2005 because I needed a complete break from work in my spare time after a heart operation.  My initial attraction was to run the layout using computer co...
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History

Yeovil Town Station had disappeared before I moved to Yeovil in 1983.  I had passed through on the blue coach when it was still standing but it really is a distant memory.  This layout was s...
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ZTC have gone away

The demise of ZTC as reported by their website and our forum (see here) has been a blow. Their 4007 decoder was a great little decoder that has helped force the market to reduce costs and i...
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Thanks to Dave Sapp

Well after a bit of head scratching last night at the club, Dave came along and pointed out the error of our ways.  We were looking at the three-way point wiring diagram at face value and should ...
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