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Your station is quite complex, so for placing the signals, you need to decide which tracks are the running ones (where train can arrive and can depart from) and which are just sidings. Do you have a trackplan of your station anywhere that I could draw the signals into? Regarding the signals, I think you will need at least one of those https://1185589887.s1.eshop-rychle.cz/es-pecky/eshop/1-1-Es-Pecky/5-1-Es-HO-navestidla/5/3916-29416-1-Navestidlo-odjezdove-z-c-b-stavebnice and then multiple of those https://1185589887.s1.eshop-rychle.cz/es-pecky/eshop/1-1-Es-Pecky/5-1-Es-HO-navestidla/5/4141-29419-1-Navestidlo-z-c-b-z-odjezdove-stavebnice (this one is available as kit only it seems) for the running tracks. If you also want to have some dedicated shunting signals, then either those https://1185589887.s1.eshop-rychle.cz/es-pecky/eshop/1-1-Es-Pecky/5-1-Es-HO-navestidla/5/3720-29415-1-Navestidlo-serazovaci-b-m-stavebnice or those https://1185589887.s1.eshop-rychle.cz/es-pecky/eshop/1-1-Es-Pecky/5-1-Es-HO-navestidla/5/5251-29423-Trpaslici-navestidlo-b-m-serazovaci-stavebnice (again, both kits).

Just be careful about painting them and placing them, the one in your picture is an entry signal. Departure signal in this configuration is not usually used, unless it is a pre-signal for another signal. Do you have more and different types of them or just this one? Edit: I have just noticed that it actually misses the white light, so it wouldn't be used as way/departure signal at all nowadays. Maybe historically somewhere as a group departure signal (just a single signal for all the tracks).

Berka's point indicators are mechanical ones, so it doesn't matter what do you use to move the point. But they must be installed on the point mechanism, which is best done before the point is installed in the layout. The installation (at least in TT) was quite fiddly but manageable. Here is my very old and crappy video showing them in action -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPqyKL3mIu0

If you want to keep it realistic, the most trailers I've seen with single 810 is two. If there were more, then there also was at least one other 810 somewhere in the train. Either in the middle (two trains coupled together) or at the rear, in both cases most likely running and with a second driver. But it's been some time since I had a chance to see a 810 with a trailer around, it's either 814s or single 810 nowadays.

Nope, the translation is correct. Those snacks really are edible insects.

Following news may be interesting for the folks modelling Czech(oslovak) railways in TT. As announced few days ago, Roco is taking over the whole TT model line from Kuehn and their catalogue for 2024 seems quite interesting, as it brings back pretty much every CZ type Kuehn produced (albeit not in all paint schemes, of course) and also promises release of the long awaited M152/810 railcar, which was announced by Kuehn few years back. Also interesting may be two sets of Y coaches (A+B and B+Bds) that together make a decent fast train consist. And the other news, Piko announced they will be releasing TT version of the S499.02/242 electric loco, the "tin pot" - "plecháč".

Yes, they were produced by VEB Waggonbau in Bautzen. BDs and BDsee coaches are 2nd class coaches with service compartment. They are usually used in fast trains, but on some routes they are paired with Bmto double deckers. Nowadays such a consist would be mostly found on some electrified routes.

Same as with the 749 in the picture, this was not a regular train consist. If I recall correctly, it was a replacement for a Regionova that broke down earlier that day and it only did a one trip from Havlíčkův Brod to Pardubice and back. But consists like this were not unusual at that time. Not very often, but it was possible to see 750/754/742 with a pair of Btax coaches or a Bmto coach as an immediate backup for something that broke down.

You can do the same thing with Goggles too :) 750022_03 by Jiri Brozek, on Flickr

The best time to visit Pečky is the end of May, as usually the last May weekend there is a big railroad model show, the biggest in the CZ actually. Plenty of layouts in various scales are on display and many small and big manufacturers and sellers have their selling booths there (some also having special show discounts). This year it's the weekend of 26-28 May.

Second half of 1990s.

It is a service wagon, primarily designed for freight trains, it was used in both passenger and freight trains in the past. Train chief guard was sitting there, hence the protruding windows -- he used them to watch the tracks. It was also used for transport of oversized luggage. And on freight trains for transport of the train accompanying shunters. This type (and similar ones) disappeared from passenger trains in early 1990s. Wagons of this particular type are still used in manipulating freight trains (trains that gather wagons along some route to bring them to a cargo hub), albeit not everywhere. Nowadays many of such trains only have a loco and freight wagons and shunting worker is sitting in the loco together with the engineer, but in some areas this wagon is still used, especially if there is more than one shunting worker required. You can find this wagon in two versions, Daa (or Ds till 1983) and Daa-k. The difference is in heating. Originally the Ds/Daa wagon was heated using steam from the steam loco or steam generator of a diesel loco. After steam locos were removed from service and electric heating was introduced in passenger wagons, many of the Daa wagons were equipped with coal stove and their designation was changed to Daa-k, where the k simply stands for "kamna" (stove in Czech).

If you can resize them and print them, just take one from there -- https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Státní_poznávací_značky_v_Česku Scroll down almost to the end of the page and there you will find a table with all the region codes and examples of license plates. Just pick the one you like, resize it, print it and glue it on the model.

Check this out - https://ttauta.cz/katalog.php

OK, so here you go... There are many things that could be included in the details text, hence part 1. I will make a part 2 when I'm able to go through my photo archive and pick right photos. Please let me know if something is not clear or doesn't make sense, it is very hard to find a Czech/English dictionary of railway terms, so I am using literal translation for some items of the Czech terminology. Station details, part 1 -- http://vlacky.brozek.org/en/details1.html Lanškroun station photo walk -- http://vlacky.brozek.org/en/lanskroun.html