Unfortunately the local one has to work and the other two are partying at Noosa Heads in QLD!

Strewth, mate! Please pass on my good wishes.

I trust the Bealettes have been mobilised.

Cheers,

Chris

Quote from: Newportnobby on March 14, 2026, 04:04:38 PMThings are lurching from bad to worse as George's wife, Anne, has fractured her patella and is in Casualty 6 floors below him  
Talk about upsetting the Gods!!

Goodness........it never rains but it pours.

Things are lurching from bad to worse as George's wife, Anne, has fractured her patella and is in Casualty 6 floors below him  
Talk about upsetting the Gods!!

Hi everyone,

Last year I took part in the 'Falklands Challenge' which involved doing a fundraising walk in South Devon to raise money for The Veterans Charity. With the help of many people I managed to raise over £430.



This year I've set myself a target of £500.

If you'd like to know more about the amazing work The Veterans Charity does, then please follow the link below.

The other link is to my JustGiving fundraising page.

https://www.veteranscharity.org.uk/

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/MichaelBowler2026?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL&utm_campaign=020

Thanks for reading.

 

Fiddle yard relaid without the double slips and running much more happily. Fettled a few bits of track and it's running most stuff fine. Some of the lightweight steam stuff with leading bogies isn't happy as the old Piccolo points are a bit too bouncy for them but there is enough stock that is happy to run from 1920s to about 2020.

Sorry, but to me this is a load of codswallop.
If I even try to watch snooker on the telly within minutes I'm in the Land of Nod
Likewise, listening to the likes of Andy Murray or Nigel Mansell talking has the same effect
My parents used to have a grandfather clock with a very sleep inducing tick which soon had me pushing out the zzzzz's, usually after a great Sunday roast

Quote from: Coyote on March 13, 2026, 06:17:13 PMThere is now a 10 hour soundtrack of the sleeper train to drift off to or use as background sound for a layout.

Caledonian Sleeper Launches Dreamlike Soundscape for World Sleep Day

That looks like the Dalwhinnie Distillery in the photo.

Well done, son.  

I started to consider starting some decoration of the train set and began wielding the PVA bottle. A little too enthusiastically unfortunately. I got glue in a couple of Tomix points, and even after some frantic (comical) attempts the clean up, it looked like there was a single gummed up failure.

Thinking, "I can't make it any worse" I unpinned etc and lifted the point. If nothing else, there would be pictures of the switching going on inside, no details of which had I been able to find.

Picture of the underside:



5 screws out and cover off:


Point motor removed to give access to the actuator:


I carefully removed the actuator and the 2 contacts, recovered and replaced one of the 2 little coil springs, and cleaned the gum off the actuator and point motor as best I could.

Put all the gubbins back together and it worked!

Happy days.
Mark