Piddle In The Marsh, N Gauge Model Railway 37. The Bit you don't normally see. See description
1. I had a comment earlier from a Mr Coombes who said he had never seen this part of PITM. Originally it was to be a storage area and 2 running lines but I hated just looking at nothing so a shopping precinct was created for the town of Lickerwell. Not finished yet but you get the idea. 2. The buildings are Metcalfe and the street is cantilevered out over one track using curved brick card. The push switches control all points on the layout and if the Dynamis box and IR receiver are removed the draw like bit slides into the baseboard out of the way. 3. On the right hand corner of the back scene is an additional IR receiver for the Dynamis which has eliminated any "not spots" for the handset and stopped any cutting the power. The back scene is located on dowells and is removable ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_m014B4klo
You need to have seen the previous video to understand what's going on here.
I sent Dapol a link to my video and had a response from their sales manager.
Dear Mr Ireland
Thank you for your email and disappointed to hear that you are having a problem with your new HST.
Your model is covered by Dapol’s 12 month warranty (extendable to 24 months). If your new model does not reach you in a satisfactory condition, your first course of action should be to contact the stockist
you purchased the model from and they will be able to arrange a replacement for you.
If they are unable to help then please let us know and we will investigate the situation.
Kind regards
Kevin Grindley
Sales Admin Manager
Dapol Ltd
p:
01691 774455
f:
01691 778866
a:
Gledrid Industrial Park, Chirk, LL14 5DG
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www.dapol.co.uk e: keving@dapol.co.uk
Now to me this response is anything but satisfactory, it is more of a go away we don't give a dam about your problem !
Well Kevin, I am not going to go away, Dapol have a quality control problem which you are pretending doesn't exist. So stop behaving like an ostrich and sort the problem.
Will anyone else who has issues with anything Dapol please email Kevin and let him know so he wakes up and realises he has a problem.
Kevin Grindley you just scored ZERO for customer relations !
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz7UCD3m5cg
It's Lovely sunny Spring Day In Somersex For The Warships are busy on Coal for the ever hungry Eccles Power Station in Wickford.
Meanwhile the local DMU calls at "Lickey End" for Lickermoor Nudist Camp to collect the campers to go to Paulish for the annual "Spring Skinny Dip" !
Thanks for watching.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAfumFf7KWg
This is my FGW HST Brand NEW running in session. It has been run in solo first and made some interesting noises then. But after running in it has by no means got any better. The rear of the power car shakes and eventually jumps off the track.
What happened to quality control Dapol ?
This one is going back to Dapol for them to see what rubbish they are sending out.
No use sending to DCC Supplies because they don't get to see how bad their product is at the moment.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pntLeitl9fQ
Class 33 D6575 laying ballast in Doniford Station.
Part of a major track renewal on The West Somerset Railway
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNYYm_nFTBo
A Video to complain about YouTube thought Police acting without due care and making a complete fuck up.
This is all about the word FAG and my use of the word FAG.
A FAG is and English Language word for a cigarette.
America Took OUR English Language and made an abortion of it.
America does not speak English it speaks "Septic Tank".
So stop judging My English Language by your incorrect assumptions of a words meaning.
I expect an apology very quickly and the comments from myself and those others who used the word FAG to be reinstated or my participation on YouTube will stop.
If this does not happen I will post on Odysee and Rumble in future.
No I know I am only a small account but it would be good to think that others would join in this protest against censorship that is not need.
Oh and where your "Fanny" is concerned, you got that wrong to, your about an inch out. Maybe two for for an American !
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEUIR14ZWT8
Hello and welcome back to Piddle In The Marsh. I had just come back from the hospital, made an enormous mug of tea and sat back to watch some trains go by. So why not share it? So I set the camera up as if next to a proper railway and Just watched trains go by.
You will see most but not all of my rolling stock, hope you enjoy.
Thanks for watching
Mark
Sorry about deleting the earlier video, I uploaded the wrong one, it had no sound
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbiEWAtSZto
Hello and welcome back to Piddle In The Marsh and a big hello to all the new subscribers that have joined over the past week, which was due to Stephen at Elvenhome N Gauge Railway giving me a very flattering shout out, so thank you Stephen.
it's been one week since I took delivery of the HST-P and I fitted the Hunts couplings (close fitting). I hadn't got any of the slightly longer ones for power cars so phoned Hunts couplings for a pair which much to my amazement they refused to take payment and sent me the pair of couplings FOC. So thank you Hunts Couplings of West Hill Wagon Works
( Tel 07391216729). Dapol light bars are impossible to get hold of for some reason so the light bars came from www.tramfabriek.no which is actually based in Eton Wick England. These I did pay for in full.
The HST-P now really looks just as it should.
Having had quite few messages via Twitter, YouTube and email requesting a HST running session I thought why not. But with only having three HST's the Western Pullman joined in as well. Seemed only right because as the Pullman was being withdrawn in 2973 the HST-P was being tested, then was introduced in to service in 1975, only to be withdrawn in 1976 as the HST arrived and now all we have left in the West Country is the HST Castle sets between Cardiff and Penzance. With the occasional XCountry set passing through. Only one HST has sound and trust me one set with Screaming Valenta engines is enough. Although I do plan to add sound at a later date to the GWR Castle set.
Sound is by YouChoos on Zimo decoders (www.YouChoos.co.uk)
Hope you enjoy and thank you for watching Piddle In The Marsh.
Please note the camera makes the coach lights look brighter than they actually are.
Mark
Also on Twitter @InPiddle
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCr5RoAyXsk
At the weekend Paul Coombes liked to do most of the work on his railway. He hated the weekend, unless rugby was on tv and gave him "something to do".
Paul started 2021 by saying he was only going to do one video a month and he had broken his New Year Resolution within days doing an update on what he had achieved that day.
So by Thursday he had usually completed what he had set out to do and would have "A Little Running Session".
This he used to announce out in his distinctive accent and very quickly as "Pengam Bridge Lockdown Running Session".
With Paul this meant his trains running the gauntlet between bits of wood, tools he had been using, one or more empty coffee cups and a can of lager. The Lager can becoming a standing joke and known as the Fosters Tower !
The friendly banter and insults that passed between us have stopped now since he passed away at the beginning of March but the memories of the fun will last forever.
I will end with his usual parting words from when we spoke on the phone,
"Go on Bugger off you're boring me now."
l wonder if he has already ripped up the track on God's railway layout "to make it better" ?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rbBKQzl47M