HST Services Resume

After being out of service for several weeks, the Virgin HST has now returned to service. The failure of the power car was caused by the small drive cog slipping on the motor shaft. Now rectified, the HST performed faultlessly. She is seen in the photograph below passing over the viaduct.

I've also started forming the hill on the left hand side of the village.

Controller Repairs

Amongst the many items I've gathered over the last 18 months were these 2 controllers. One has never worked, but the other worked fine until about 2 weeks ago when it packed up. So I've set about fixing them both.

Some bright spark of a designer decided that the cases should be riveted together which required some carefully drilling before analysis could commence! One had a dirty switch and one had a blown power transistor and diode. The failed transistor had a datecode that showed it was manufactured in 1978! Both controllers were successfully tested last night.