163. Chesham Model Railway Club - Higham Bridge Layout – 00-gauge - Running Night 2025-03-31

Club member Ray demonstrates a few of his locomotives which have been upgraded by being fitted with Hornby’s new HM7000 TXS DCC sound chips. They can now run on our Club’s DC layout when fully controlled via Bluetooth on his smartphone. This is not to be confused with the default ability of DCC locos running on DC, making random generic sounds.

Chairman Finn runs his massive H0 scale Rivarossi Big Boy for its first ever run, and my Hornby King Arthur with its rake of varnished Maunsell coaches, behaves badly !

These & the other trains running, are listed below :

Starring :
• CMRC - Higham Bridge Layout - 00-gauge.

Running Rolling Stock (in order of appearance) :
• A NuCast kit build by Graham Varley (RIP) - GWR - 388 Class 0-6-0 Armstrong Goods Loco - No.690.
• A Hornby – R3465 - LNER - N2 Class 0-6-2T Loco – No.4765 - HM7000 TXS DCC Bluetooth Sound Chip controlled.
• A Hornby – R2836 – SR – King Arthur N15 Class 2-6-0 Loco – ‘Sir Valence’ No.767.
• A Hornby – R3583TTS – BR Railfreight – Class 37 Loco – No.37040 – uprated HM7000 TXS DCC Bluetooth Sound Chip controlled.
• A NRM / Rapido (Canada) – NC002 - GNR – Stirling Single 4-2-2 Loco – No.1 – sound fitted - hauling Hatton’s – Genesis - GNR 6 & 4 wheel coaches.
• A Bachmann – 31-406 – BR (ex SR) – Lord Nelson Class 4-6-0 Loco – ‘Lord Nelson’ No.30850.
• A Rivarossi – HR2753 – Union Pacific – Big Boy Class 4-8-8-4 Loco – No.4014 – H0-scale - 60th Anniversary model.
• A Hornby – ex R267 – BR - Class 104 DMU – a Class 101 cut & shut by owner to create a Midland Region BR Class 104.
• A Bachmann – 31-1995 set - BR (ex LNER) – A4 Class 4-6-2 Loco – ‘Silver Fox’ No.60017 with it’s The Elizabethan carriages.
• A Tri-ang – ex R157+R158 – BR - Class 101 DMU – cut & shut by owner to create an East Anglian Region BR Class 101.

Also Featuring :
• Fellow YouTuber – Robert (Bob) Shepperson – who also videoed this running session :
https://www.youtube.com/results?searc...
• Hornby HM7000 Bluetooth DCC Operator – Raymond Prentice-Garner.
• The other Layout Operator – Findlay Williams – the Club Chairman.
• BR DMUs cut & shut owner – John Harman.
• Various other CMRC members.

Date filmed :
• 2025-03-31

Venue :
• Chesham Model Railway Club (CMRC) clubroom, White Hill Centre, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England
o CMRC http://www.chesham-mrc.co.uk
o White Hill Centre https://whitehillcentre.org.uk/

Filming :
• Camera – Sony Xperia 1 II (Mk2) smartphone - showing its age here.

Video creation :
• Software – Microsoft HD Movie Maker PRO.
• Background sounds :
o freesound - 183875__bidone__steam-locomotive.WAV file by bidone
https://freesound.org/people/Bidone/s...
o freesound – 133099__allh__steam-train-interior.MP3 file by allh
https://freesound.org/people/allh/sou...