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    Southern/BR Southern Region/SECR, Member of the Southwark and District Model Railway Club. Currently working on club layout Crystal Palace High Level and Lordship Lane private layout.

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    Point Motors for Garden Layouts.

    Any suggestions for suitable point motors for garden layouts please? I generally use PECO point motors for exhibition layouts, but don't think they would be suitable for outdoor use mounted underneath baseboards. I am concerned about water getting in, causing short circuits and corrosion. I don't have any problem with surface mounted motors as this is not going to be my usual fine scale modelling (it's really an excuse to give my locos a good run!). I'm using analogue not DCC.

     

    Many thanks,

    Gary

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    2. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      Personally if I was designing a garden railway, I'd try my best to avoid having any points outside, leaving them for undercover areas of the layout.

    3. Spam Can Man

      Spam Can Man

      Thanks for the advice both of you. I will try the Garden Railways Forum. Unfortunately, I cannot avoid having some of the pointwork out in the open and quite a distance away from the operating area. I had been wondering about the PECO P-11 surface mounting point motors. The baseboards a quite thick, 3 layers of 18mm marine ply laminated with boat builders adhesive, so any under baseboard types would need long operating rods. The Conrad point motors looked promising as they are more or less sealed pre-wired units, but are very hard to get hold of these days.

    4. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      TBH I've found the PL11s quite delicate, even for indoor use - every now and then the cover comes off and parts fly out! Apart from a couple of restricted locations, I've usually switched to using the Gaugemaster/SEEP equivalent.

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