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The worm - the black plastic screw on the end of the motor shaft - should cause the gear that is underneath it, parallel to the main wheels, to rotate.

Have you tried running it with the body off - so that you can see what is/isn't happening?

Very fine...!

Ah, right. Bit of a co-incidence.

Is it my eyes or has the 2 fell off the front number plate?

I wonder if we would qualify - http://www.irishrail.ie/cat_offers.jsp?i=4579 ? Perhaps it could be arranged to fit in with a show...

Right. How quaint.

Great stuff. What is the strange little tower at the Port Laoise end of the Dublin platform? There'e a smaller one at Ballybrophy, that you could hardly stand up in. I've often wondered what they were for. And why the big gap between the platforms? Was there a third track, like Kildare? The bridge doesn't seem wide enough for three...

I've always suspected this - http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/northern-ireland-and-republic-men-ugliest-in-the-world-16116949.html - but now it's official.

It must have really hurt you to leave it that clean - great job , though. Have you seen this? - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180872546766?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649 - it's that sharp it's painful...

... even if there isn't one...

There's always a risk with insulation piercing connections - soldering will always be better, though a bit more work. There seems little point making disconnection possible, unless it's necessary..

I delivered some stuff there a few years ago and got a good look round it with the man himself - very interesting, too.

Is this - http://www.kemilway.com/peter-k.html - anything to do with it..?

Also on eBay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MULTICOMP-878106-QUICK-SPLICE-BLADE-BLUE-14-18-AWG-25-per-pack-/160789311384?pt=UK_Gadgets&hash=item256fca2f98

They look like 'Crimp Blade Splicers' - http://www.rapidonline.com/Cables-Connectors/Crimp-Blade-Splice-33-0190 - you might try a car accessory type place - maybe Halfords.

Hands up anybody else who watched it expecting to see Leslie Ash..?

It was £75 inc p&p for me. Right. I've given it a little bit of a run today and, so that we're all using the same units, I used Cravens as the test loads. On the flat it was still quite happy with five behind it, even with the whole train on a radius 2 curve - I didn't think it was worth finding the limit, as it'll never need to do that in 'real' life. On the 1:40 slope, it started to slip when the fifth coach was added, but it would even start from stationary with four coaches, all on the slope, without slipping - we don't have any sloping curved track. But that sort of perfomance'll do for me, I think. I suspect there's maybe the odd bit of oil on the wheels and the track is in a fairly dusty location - even so, it's better than I expected.

No real damage - just a small dent on the edge of the roof, just in front of the chimney, in just the sort of place that there might be one! The start of my 'weathering'...

8-pin socket. You can just see the side of the blanking plug through the window in the picture above. I've already dropped it..! That's a start... It seems to have a tractive effort of between 15 & 20 grams - as near as I can tell with the kitchen scales held on edge.

I'm still playing at running it in. I only have a metre test track here. It'll probably have a good run tomorrow or the next day. I'll see what it'll pull on the flat and up a 1:40. It shouldn't be too bad, it's a fair weight, especially considering the size - they've pretty well filled all the spare space with metal - and it's quite low-geared.

I just found myself with a hundred quid I wasn't expecting and so, rather than waste it on food or heat, I decided to splurge some of it on a GSR(I) Sentinel - at last. I clicked the OK button at 1:30 on Friday afternoon and the postman handed it to me at 9:30 on Saturday morning. Top marks to Kernow for service! It's a nicely finished little thing, although I'll do something to camouflage the bit of circuitry that's visible through the windows. It's taken a good bit of running in and is a lot quieter now, but it was fairly noisy to start with. I found that a spot of oil into the sintered bushes on the motor made quite a difference. It's nicely low-geared. The body comes off nice and easily, although there is little to deal with inside.

MIR bogie cement, unmade, starting at 46 quid - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230783086061&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123

MapViewer would appear to confirm your theory - http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,698479,731123,5,9