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  1. Broithe
    Hopefully there was an offshore breeze, or there would only be the glass and tyres left when he came back for it..
  2. Broithe
    Full scale components being produced. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32597809
  3. Broithe
    Please yourself.
  4. Broithe
    Maybe it would have been greater if it had been properly funded before - the cost to the nation is far greater than it was before the break-up.
  5. Broithe
    I've sent the odd two-fingered letter....
  6. Broithe
    The taxpayer-funded subsidies to the UK's 'private' rail system now far exceed anything that the nationalised system could have even dreamed of....
  7. Broithe
    Indeed, it would almost be shame to hide them with a load. A lovely thing.
  8. Broithe
    http://www.peco-uk.com/imageselector/Files/Instruction%20sheets/Code%2075%20Concrete%20Sleeper%20Eng.pdf
  9. Broithe
    I'm not a fan of the Hornby flexi-track - the Peco seemed a lot easier to use.
  10. Broithe
    Yes, but they aren't really fishplates, so Rail Joiners is a better description.... You can also get plastic ones, for where you might want an isolated section. Cosmetic plastic fishplates are available for the right 'look'.
  11. Broithe
    If buying flexi-track, don't forget to get enough joiners, as well......
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  13. Broithe
    That's the beauty of Streamline - you can have a closer spacing on the straights and 'slide' the spacing wider on the bends, as necessary.
  14. Broithe
    In 00 4mm is one foot - a tenth of an inch is 2.5 mm, or 5/8 of a foot, which is 5 times 1.5 inches, or 7.5 inches - a bit over-sized. Somewhere around 5 or 5.5 inches seems about right, in real life.
  15. Broithe
    I've never had any trouble bending Peco 100 Streamline flexi-track in either direction.
  16. Broithe
    Streamline is a trade-name for Peco's flexitrack system and its associated points, slips and crossovers. I think the term is used because you can sweep bends more realistically than with fixed-curve Setrack. The rail on code 100 is 100/1000th of an inch high and Code 75 is 75/1000ths high. Fine scale is a generic term for things that are more scale-accurate - thus, 75 track is more "fine scale" than 100 is.
  17. Broithe
    Looks great, D C. A vertical shot of the real thing might be of interest.
  18. Broithe
    I once spent ages trying to get an old loco running on 100 to stop ticking - only to eventually find that the noise was not in the mechanism, but came from the flanges hitting the chairs..
  19. Broithe
    New stuff will run on 100 or 75 - older stuff will prefer100 - some really old wheels will argue even on 100.
  20. Broithe
    Get one of these to keep things (almost) running.
  21. Broithe
    Anybody that hasn't seen this should make the effort.
  22. Broithe
    Not really, there's a good few about on the net, though - little has changed, really - the footbridge has been replaced, the signal box and the engine shed have gone. The track layout has been radically simplified. I've never seen a picture with the engine shed in view...
  23. Broithe
    Ballybrophy had everything - https://plus.google.com/photos/105618325540295927305/albums/5222995821547314129?banner=pwa - the remains of the turntable were still visible up to recently - .
  24. Broithe
    We do get the odd bank-burst, if you want to model that.....
  25. Broithe
    That one in that picture is just one that I saw on a layout once, not being offered for sale. Lots of canals around me, and the symmetry of the lock stood out, if you see them all the time. The correct, asymmetric, lock just "looks wrong" to some people, if they aren't used to them.
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