Luke Palmer

Has anyone here ever used Coding on a Windows Laptop to control Locos, points & accessories on their 00 gauge model railway layout?

I’m starting to get into coding and wondered whether I could incorporate it into my layout.  

No no worries if not it was just a thought I had,

Luke

Thanks everyone for your input, I’ll try and put a signalling plan together for my layout.

It will be very diificult and very expensive for you to provide full signalling - are you hoping to drive trains to the signals or provide some signals to add to the scenery ?

 

As is tyical, it will be difficult to signal as the track plan is a model railway layout rather than a prototype - space restrictions make this a very difficult dilema - do I have a very limited prototype based layout or one which I can run several trains on ?

 

Have you built this layout ?

This is my layout at the moment, I know it’s not the best of layouts but with a bit of ballasting and laying some static grass it should look ok.

Is it 00 or N ?

 

 If 00 the difficulty you have - a very common one - is the signals will be next to each other, there's no plain track between them which makes it very difficult to signal realistically.

What signals are you proposing to use ?

I do 00 gauge and I'm planning to use berko/Eckon signals

Do you have any photos of the layout so we can get an idea of size ?

Don’t have any photos at the minute as I’m out but the layout is approximately 10ft x 10ft

Luke you need to define what is what before you can signal it

Where are the platforms?

Are the dead end lines sidings or terminal platforms?

Is the purple runround a siding or a short running line?

What are the inner green sidings? , if it's a yard there would only be exit signals with hand points and no signals within it.

Add some labels and people will have more idea what's appropriate to help.

The outer Mainline track runs clockwise and the other two run anti clockwise

I forgot to mention, the outer Mainline track runs clockwise but both inner tracks run anti clockwise.

Hi all,

I’m in need of some help regarding what signals I should have and where I should put them.

Below is a track plan of my layout.

Red = Mainline

Green = sidings

Purple = track to upper level

Orange = track to lower level

Any questions please feel free to ask

Many thanks

Right so here is my updated track plan.

Red - Mainline (LOCOS RUN BOTH WAYS)

Green - Sidings

Purple - Track to helix

Orange - Track to Lower Level

I don’t have any Stations on this part of my layout

Thanks

I’m still in need of help.

Any questions please ask

This is my track plan, excuse the numbers/letters they were for something else.

I don’t have an era/company as I collect steam and Diesel & electric locomotives

Hi all,

I’m in need of some help regarding signalling for my 00 gauge railway.

I’m not very knowledgable when it comes to signalling, as you will gather, but please bare with me.

I would like to know,

What aspect signal should I have?

Where should I have a feather signal?

Where do I put shunt signals

Any information would be a great help

Many thanks,

Luke