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

Quote from: Bealman on March 12, 2026, 09:21:17 PMWell let's see it then

One day I'll post a video on YouTube...

Kev E.

Sorry. Nice vid shame about the mix

Nice @madchadbrad . I went through a Clannad phase, haven't listened to them for a while!

Tim

Thanks for the interest.  I started a new job at the end of last year and this has slipped job my list.  I will pick it up again soon, sorry.

Just spotted this on TOTP ...


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BDBG_VgzCvg

Seems like it would suit watching trains passing on the layout ...

Does it include the bit with a slightly mashed Glaswegian going down the carriage banging on all the doors trying to find his mate ?

There 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