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    4COR replied to the thread What’s more efficient.
    Higher Voltage certainly leads to lower transmission losses than lower voltage, but (generally) DC actually has lower transmission...
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    I'm reminded of an old signal post to the south side of the Up Caterham line just down from the junction at the south end of Purley...
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    4COR replied to the thread What's your latest acquisition?.
    Gotta love a nice Southern Region ED. 8-)
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    4COR replied to the thread What's your latest acquisition?.
    Doesn't look like it: (link to Hornby compatibility matrix)...
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    4COR replied to the thread On the Workbench....
    Thanks :) Yeah, I'm quite "careful" in my purchases - all the kits I've picked up so far have been eBay grabs mostly under £8 per kit...
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    4COR replied to the thread The papacy.
    Wonder if it would pass the Part J Building regs... Not sure it's high enough compared to the roofline...
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    4COR replied to the thread On the Workbench....
    More covered wagons though slow progress with family, kids, cricket, Easter, work, etc... I have started an old (Kirk moulding) PC08 BR...
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    4COR replied to the thread What's your latest acquisition?.
    I continue on a van theme currently - I picked up a couple of venerable Ratio 591/5091 kits this past week to join one I already have...
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    4COR replied to the thread What's your latest acquisition?.
    Lovely stuff (and I have said it before, but the rough field looks super!). Awaiting @Sun Chariot for the fish van appreciation! :lol:
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    4COR replied to the thread Bob Symes and Dave Lowery.
    Very impressive stuff - the LMS Coronation class piling around with load 12 on particularly so. How would one go about slowing it down...
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    Agreed - excellent! Highly tempting for a layout - though in my period I'm modelling, they were finger boards shoved into a slot :lol:
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    4COR replied to the thread DJH kits.
    I had my eye on a DJH kit of a C2X in OO that is available but (and I don't know if this applies for O gauge as much) the lack of wheels...
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    4COR replied to the thread Chain guards still a thing?.
    It would be quite tricky to negotiate pointwork if it did...
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    Not so long ago, the fixed up distant semaphore for trains on the Faringdon branch approaching the old Uffington Jnc on the GWML was...
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    Seems unlikely - there hasn't been any significant flare in the last 24hrs, and in fact the X-ray flux is extremely low at present...

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