I feel I have reached a mile stone. I had to rip all the wiring out of the existing baseboards because it looked like this.

As there is now going to be a low-level storage yard. There was a clear need to improve the wiring. I have now finished rewiring the Hatch and it now looks like this.

There is a four pin XLR connecter socket and cable between each base board.

I built a test control panel that consists of a four-pin socket, A four pin plug and a 9-volt dc supply to the track to test polarity of all insulated sections of the electrofrog points and a NCE power cab on the separate DCC accessory bus to test all the DCC point motors, and it all works with colour coded wires, and a 5-amp train bus system. And it all works!

I have treated my self to a DCCconcepts 5amp DCC booster and a matching 5-amp power supply. The first pack arrived today. The whole thing oozes quality. The packaging has a flap that is help in place by a small magnet. I felt like I should put on a pair of kid gloves before daring to touch it. Whilst swooning over DCC Concepts products I feel a special affection for their wire strippers that can remove the insulation in the middle of a piece of wire.

These are by far the best wire stripers I have used.