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I'd be interested Richard, especially on LNER pacifics. I have vivid recollections of Peter Hanford's recordings of wheel slip on these and to be able to indulge in it occasionally would be rather fun. I have found that you can get Hornby's current pacific chassis to slip quite easily on DC if you give it a rapid twist on the controller knob but as you say it probably isn't good for the delicate moving parts such as the valve gear which is apt to be a bit slack.

David

 

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As an ECoS owner, what and where the functions are, doesn't really matter too much as I can remap the position on the control.

I too would be inclined to put the station announcement further away, but I am probably biased by the fact that I don't currently have a platform 10 and my railway is nowhere near the west midlands

I would like to be able to exploit the variable whistle length that ESU are said to have built into the joystick controls.

QUOTE I once had bookmarked that took a recording adnmorphed the voices to different national / regional accents to add authenticity.
Bringing up Peter Handford again, the announcer on his "This is York" recording is pure "RP", and as two tracks demonstrate, her accent did not change over 20 years. I think we see the same announcer in one of the BTF films which shows her knitting between announcements.

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QUOTE How will I do it? ......well, still working on it.

How about a small cheap MP3 player activated by a remote.

I hope that someday someone will create a DCC controllable "accessory" MP3 player. I could come up with a Bill Of Materials for it quite easily but I think it would be a bit on the expensive side for general sale.

David