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37510colin (1370)- Feedback left by buyer.
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Thanks For the fast payment Great E-buyer
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Glad it arrived ok & your pleased with it, thanks for the fast payment as well, cheers
cornwallcustomdesigns (861)- Feedback left by buyer.
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Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.
nemo9295 (1504)- Feedback left by buyer.
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Glad you like the loco. Many thanks for the purchase - much appreciated! Thanks again.
nemo9295 (1504)- Feedback left by buyer.
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Thanks for the purchase and pleased you like the wagon! Many thanks again!
toyfairs (1034)- Feedback left by buyer.
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Fast payment. Thank you.
Reviews (2)
03 Feb, 2021
Suits from 4 to 40-odd
One of the great programmes of my childhood, and my kids love it. Suits from 4 to 40-odd (and I'm sure beyond).
21 Jan, 2019
Stunning Looks, Shame about the Coupling.
A stunning-looking coach with great detail and finish - visually awesome. What lets it (and a number of other recent coaches) down are these 'self-centring cam-coupling' arrangements. Shunting/propelling through reverse curves (e.g. crossovers) can result in buffer-lock & derailment, as can running loco-first down inclined track. Also coupling/uncoupling is not easy unless on straight track, so collecting/putting together a rake or adding a CCT 'hands-free' may not be possible in curved sidings and stations (usually a major positive of tension-lock over e.g. Kaydees).
The alternative oddly-called 'close couplers' keep the coaches further apart on curves and prevent buffer lock, but you can't then easily uncouple them. However, using these seems to give higher friction between the flanges and rails (restricting the cam seems to limit the rotation of the bogie), and the resulting rigidity can mean that they don't handle transition to 'cant'/superelevation well, with wheels sometimes riding into the air.
Cam-couplings seem to be designed for running fixed rakes (including the loco) on flat (or uphill), wide radius track in only a forward direction, so they will be fine for a certain type of circular processional layout. For those of us who try to do something more operationally interesting, it seems like a combination of the downsides of tension-lock couplings, plus the main downside of Kaydees, without the advantages of either. I saw a web-article on disabling the cam somewhere - will try to find that again.