Excellent video, I have been looking for one that shows every step for doing this and at last I found your one which is very methodical and makes it look straightforward, my only niggle is you didn't show how you did the lighting and what you used to add the extra red light, I'm sure I can find that somewhere on the old internet, thanks for making this video as I have 4 hst sets to do, I just hope the lima and hornby wiring are similar on these once I open them up, electrics have never been my strong point. Bri.

thank you great video really informative it will help me a lot

Great video very informative

Nice job Nigel I'll probably do the same on my Lima intercity swallow HST convert from DC to DCC

Watch this video playing it very well. I’m going to try it myself you made it look easy I hope I find it that way

Thanks for making this, looking to convert my exact same loco, albeit I'm planning on fitting a small sliding switch somewhere to switch the input power between the chip and the motor, to allow me to still use the loco on my club's DC circuit.

thank you been trying to find a tutorial on this very train

Hi Nigel I have just returned to modelling and have watched your video over and over as I am very new to converting to DCC One thing I cannot get my head round is the second rail wire. I think you used the wire with the small diode on it on my 125 this wire the left front light connector pin which pushes in to a hole in plastic My question is where does it get its power from I hope you are still able to answer my query or amI just being thick and missing the obvious. Great video and this my first attempt so don’t want to get it wrong Stuart Forbes

you did right with the varnish theory however clear laquer should have been used, people tend to forget trains in real life have gloss paint not matt, the only thing that should be matt is the weathering. also when soldering you need to make sure you have a good mechanical connection by "j" hooking the wires together, never rely on just touching the iron to two wires

Hi Nigel, Great job on the 125 conversion, I have a couple of these to do myself and it will be my first attempt at changing to DCC. Can you advise what resistors you used and if possible any more info on getting the directional lighting to work. I can see the wiring but not clearly enough in the video. Any help would be appreciated.

Nice work, love a good HST conversion! Subbed!

Thank you Nigel for your reply.

Hi NIgel enjoy your video but how do you get the red light on the dummy train?

Nigel very informative video on this conversion, I followed all your instructions until connecting the lights. Can you say what colour wire from the chip did you connect to? Many thanks . Frank Hughes

Wonderful views of the back or you hand, should have had the camera on the other side in front

hi there Nigel I'm thinking of delving into the wonderful world of dcc and this video helped enormously, but i'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount of dcc chips and functions can you suggest a nice simple chip to install (like the one you used),I 'm not to worried about having loads of functions just the forward/reverse,and lights as in your video would do to start with.again thanks for the tutorial.liked and subbed.

Thanks, i will try to use this guide on one of ours, Any idea how to get the dummy car directional lighting to work?

Hi, greetings from Brazil!! Is that possible convert my 1978 vintage Hornby R.845 LNER Loco Flying Scotsman to DCC Operation too?

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Bonjour, mais il semble que vous avez connecté la LED avant et la LED rouge arrière sur la même résistance sur le fil bleu, pourriez-vous me le confirmer. Merci d’avance. Hello, but it seems that you connected the front LED and the rear red LED on the same resistance on the blue wire, could you confirm it for me. Thank you in advance.