Yeovil Railway Centre

One of our favourite venues!

An easy setup on Saturday morning and only a few minor tweaks required before everything settled into reliable operation.

For the turntable, the sensor has been replace for an infrared detector instead of the LED & LDR, this proved far more reliable, except in direct sunlight, which is not generally going to be a problem.

The new extension performed well, its integration is practically seamless and the level crossing operated without fault all weekend.

The usual mix of locomotives were in use, with almost every loco being out on the layout somewhere, thanks to the extra storage space.

City of Liverpool resting in one of the sheds, with Sir Niglel Gresley.

A few niggles with interference from the signal sequencer affecting the shuttle control. A temporary fix using a separate power supply cured the problem. There is a spare power supply feed in the control panel that can be used to power the signals in future.

The diesel & electric locos lined up in the fiddle yard, all took their turns on the layout.

 The upper loop, with double-headed 0-6-2s, 2-6-4s & 8Fs, along with the Blue EMU, all running without fault.

Most pleasing of all, Ludlow Castle is finally restored to proper running order as it hauls the chocolate & cream coaches and TPO coach on the back.

And this is a view that won't be seen for much longer...

We're very grateful to one of our "groupies" Tony Robinson, who turned up with a box of goodies that included a goods depot. We need to incorporate this into the extension somehow, so we reckon it'll fit about here:

So having "finished" the extension, we'll shortly be ripping up the tracks again to install this permanently!

With thanks to the folks at Yeovil Railway Centre for their hospitality.