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Weeding out the gremlins

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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First shuttle video

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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TrainController updates

 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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Electronics with a mind of it's own!

After spending two sessions trying to get my Lenz LH100 to work as per the English manual (version 3.6) I finally discovered it was still set to German! This must be why the previous owner put it on E...
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Open Wide!

 Whilst squeezed into the old building CS1 Yeovil Town was difficult to operate with multiple operators due to the narrow width at the control desk area.  There was just no room to pass with...
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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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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 ...
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Distractions but progress

Members are being drawn from all quarters as main interests range from the expected OO and O gauge through to 3 rail! Back to progress; we have renumbered the one of the duplicated tanks from 6757 (S...
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Chips with everything!

My prize locomotive (A sound enabled EWS livery Class 66) and it's sister class 66 (no sound) both failed recently so no impresive long trains to test Yeovil Town. One was dead and would not respond ...
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Things are about to get dirty

Yes, after buying a heavily weathered tank loco and several other secondhand ones we are about to embark on a dirty campaign - Weathering them to look like those quite dirty tanks in all the photos. ...
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Old bugs in trackwork

We have fixed all bugs in the track work on the front end and tested all routes. There were some strange physical issues caused by a defective micro-switch and the age of the layout track work and al...
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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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Traintronics TT300 Point Motor Problems

After fitting the Traintronics TT300 slow motion DCC point motors to the layout we carried out some tests.  The motors moved well for most of the time but whenever the track had a short they all ...
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Repairs after renewal

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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