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[gavin_t]

Ask Ken at dutfield what he has in terms of a mk2s tiie a and gavin. If only 2nd class buy one, you can always paint or add transfer to convert. What is wrong with the loco ? Maybe put a post in train surgery re pickups on class 47 with a photo. Ntpntp ntp maybe the man to ask , bob at brlines adam @Skyline2uk  did mention earlier

Ref the 47 have a look at the relevant thread under reviews on the forum.

From memory the solution needs the body off and pickups to be gently bent to make contact with all the wheels. Also, make sure all wheels are clean and the track that it is running on.

Skyline2uk

Haven't had much luck searching the forum but will check out the pickups as suggested. Track is all good as I sent out my trusty class 60 and that glides round at a crawl.
I assume the bogies just pull off like other farish locos? Might clean it all up as they do seem to have been very liberal with the lube....

[crewearpley40]

Sparky ' a post 28.12. 15 search class 47 picks up. Use search tool

[mickeyflinn]

@gavin_t try;
https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=31081.msg354055#msg354055

[crewearpley40]

Thanks that's the link.

[Trainfish]

Wow, that is a lot of Cortinas!  You must have cleared Oxford Diecast out. 

Kind regards

Paddy

There are 104 Cortinas on that train which at £4+ each is a quite expensive rake when you add the cost of the transporters and usually 2x locos. I only have 8 other Cortinas for the layout though so may need a few more as there are no mk1/2 Escorts, Granadas, Orions etc available 

[gavin_t]

@gavin_t try;
https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=31081.msg354055#msg354055

Thanks for the link. Was hoping there was an easier solution then taking a soldering iron to it though 

[lil chris]

Here is my latest purchase a LMS 3f Jinty 7309,just chipped tonight and upand running.

[Alan Kyte]

Jinty looks great, got mine through last week and finally decoder arrived today, looking forward to running mine also..

[37214]

Ordered this on-line on Sunday, arrived today.

Bit expensive but I don't have a layout and I wanted to see if my collection of Poole Farish locos will run after 20 years in storage.

Under normal circumstances, I would have gone along to the local Area Group and asked if I could try a model or two on one of their layouts but these are not normal times and I'm impatient to try out my old stock.

Anyway, it's only the cost of 1 months diesel for the car and I haven't been using that much for the last 2 months so I can justify it.

The loco fits in well with the era I would like to model but I'm not that keen on the coaches.

[tunneroner61]

@37214 Caution.
Thats a DCC set you've bought. You'll fry your old Poole locos if you try them on the controller in the set unless you've already chipped them. You can use the track but connect a conventional DC controller to it for the old locos.

Norman

[crewearpley40]

That may give you confidence and skills. You can always sell, swap the coaches or upgrade the controller and build upon that set with extra track. Chris. @37214 . Good point raised by ron

[37214]

@37214 Caution.
Thats a DCC set you've bought. You'll fry your old Poole locos if you try them on the controller in the set unless you've already chipped them. You can use the track but connect a conventional DC controller to it for the old locos.

Norman

@tunneroner61 Hi Norman,

Thank you for your comment. There is a button on the controller that says  "Analogue Locomotive Operation". If I use this, I'm guessing that I can run the old locos, is that correct?

[Kaput]

@37214 Caution.
Thats a DCC set you've bought. You'll fry your old Poole locos if you try them on the controller in the set unless you've already chipped them. You can use the track but connect a conventional DC controller to it for the old locos.

Norman

@tunneroner61 Hi Norman,

Thank you for your comment. There is a button on the controller that says  "Analogue Locomotive Operation". If I use this, I'm guessing that I can run the old locos, is that correct?

Technically - yes however its a bad idea for the motor in OO gauge and pretty much a death sentence for N gauge.
Every instruction sheet for modern Farish models specifically says not to run them on a DCC layout without a decoder.

[37214]

Thank you. I've just been reading up a bit more online which says the same as has already been stated, don't run analogue on DCC. Probably should have researched a bit further before buying this set but it's done now.

So much to learn! Things have definitely moved on since I put everything into storage. Will have to get a DC analogue controller now.

Thanks again for advice.

[Kaput]

Something like a Gaugemaster Combi is a decent shout for a basic single track DC controller. No fancy bells and whistles to cause hassle and fairly cheap.