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Books on this shelf cover motor racing projects
Model Railway
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The Bexhill West Turntable User Guide
The Bexhill West Turntable is a computerised turntable control system featuring a wireless (mobile) controller for up to four turntables on a model railway layout. Each turntable can have up to 100 "roads", each of which can be easily programmed to any positio...
Triang DMU modifications
Upgrading, titivating and otherwise modifying vintage Triang DMUs
Flush Glazing for older models
Many older coaches, especially Hornby Mk2 and older Graham Farish coaches - and locomotives (e.g. Hornby Dublo diesel locos, Triang DMUs) use acetate sheets behind fairly thick mouldings for windows, which do not look particularly prototypical. These pages co...
Hornby Dublo Diesels
Updating old Hornby Dublo diesel locomotives, typically their Class 20 (Bo-Bo), Class 28 (Co-Bo) and Class 55 (Deltic). These locos have a very simplistic chassis, a very large motor, and a crude drive mechanism. Projects in this section include designing a ...
Hornby Zero 1 - DCC Conversion
Ever since they came out in the late 1970s, I've lusted after a Hornby Zero 1 system. By the time I could actually afford one, though, I no longer had a model railway (or anywhere to put one), and it languished in the back of my head, forgotten amongst the cob...
Power - Converting to all wheel drive
These pages cover replacing the old Triang drive unit with a new low profile multi-motor system, to enable all-wheel drive, but retain as much internal detail as possible.
Lighting
Adding lighting effects
Bogie design
Pictured above is a later Triang DMU, with its front dummy bogie riveted in place, and the power bogie removed, showing the motor sticking up vertically. To the right is an older Triang dummy bogie, on which the replacement (front) is based. At this time, ...
Let there be light!
Most original Triang DMUs do not have any lighting at all (left, above). They have four lights on the front... all of which are painted dummies. Later models did include a lit head code (right, above), replacing the original destination board & top light. T...