Hi i forgot i did this thread, well after thinking it through i went out and brought a KATO track pack, same as a train set but minus the train and controller, now all my stock is 90's onwards, i have quite an exstensive collection of trains and ALL of them rain fine over straight/curved track but the problem came when running over points, i have 2 left hand turnouts and to right hand ones, some locos run through them fine, but other locos did'nt, take my Hornby Merchant navys, when passing over a pair of points invariably the loco wanted to go in the opposite direction to what ever way i had set the point, which usually resulted in the train derailing, and if i set the point the way the loco wanted to go, it was fine, but the next Merchant i put on the track went whatever way i sent it fine, i have pretty much all the Merchant navys Hornby have released and ran them all and it really was quite random as to which ones behaived and which ones did'nt, the same applied to other types of loco from diffrent manufacturers, plus the ones that did'nt like the points and derailed did'nt do it everytime they passed over, usually they did that trick that we've all seen, and only derailed when your not looking, in the end i gave in frustration.
The points in the train pack where small radious ones, so when i got the time and money i will buy some more larger radious points and see if thats any better.
I'll also add that Kato points don't seem as well made as others ive experianced (hornby/peco) in the fact the mechanism seems very delicate and flimsey.
Still, im gonna persist with it as dispite these minor (if irratating) issues i do like the overall look of the track.
Just thought id share my experiances with those who are interested.
