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Hi everyone, My name is Martin and I am 61 years old

I have a great interest in all things steam and have a

number of models such as Bowman stationary models

and Mamod moblies.

After visitng stia and seeing the 00 gauge in action I was

very impressed and recently purchased a Mallad live steam

set from e bay.

I hope you don't mind but I have a couple of questions:

I have laid down a 8x4 wooden base onto which I glued some thick

foam and onto that glued some scenics track bed and risers/decliners

I have glued the trackdown onto the track bed.

It consists of a large oval rising and declining at both ends

and a flat smaller oval connected by points inside the large one.

I ran the Mallard with two coaches for the first time this evening and I have

two problems:

It gets up a nice head of steam and runs around the flat smaller track about

twice and then the controller red light goes off and it loses all power

I bought and used brand new washers on the boiler and the oiler so I don't

think it is losing steam but this happens everytime?

Also it does not like the points at all it will run across them going around

the smaller inner oval but if I switch to make it go around the larger one it

derails everytime it gets to the points.

I purchased this set off ebay and the seller gave me extra track and three

coaches, as I have no experience in hornby I don't really know if all this

track and the points are live steam or not.

any help would be gratefully recieved.