So I have found something more frustrating than banana plugs (which I seem to have solved with something called Waygo connectors) and that is signal bulbs. My 7200 series signals did not like their twenty years in the loft so I have spent the last few days on bulbs and general repairs, great fun for my fat fumbly fingers and eyesight! So now we get to some operational issues twenty years on. First attempt on a I know what I'm doing basis resulted in smoke but no lasting damage. So then we get to read a combination of the little slip inside the box, a bilingual copy of Signalbuch 0360 and digital handbook 0303 - a very early edition. So now we have some trials that work after a fashion on my K track/6021/6040 smallish layout.

So a number of queries resulting:

It seems to me that my education would be best suited to the signal book 03402 in English but now out of print. My searches cant find a copy on sale in stock although it does not seem that long out of sale. Is there another pdf or scanned version available anywhere?

On my layout we do not thunder around at max speed but potter quite modestly yet the books seem to recommend a four track length break before the signal stop point. My loks seem to stop in the first track section after the break. Is this normal?

When a lok passes the break on stop the current is switched off so is the ABV so the lok stops abruptly, am I missing something (we have the resistor fitted as instructed to retain the setting)