A bus-wire is a single cable that carries power around a layout with numerous wires splicing off it along the way (known as dropper wires) to supply various components or sections of track with the power.There are two main reasons why you...

Deciding which wire to use when wiring a model railway can sometimes be a little overwhelming, there are so many choices between different colours, thicknesses and also whether to use stranded or solid core wire.The good news is that a lot of...

There are many reasons why model trains derail, sometimes it's a track fault, sometimes it's because the train isn't designed for a particular radius, sometimes there's a fault with the model and sometimes our expectations are simply too high for...

When deciding what height to build your baseboard, there is no ultimate correct answer, only considerations that you should be thinking about whilst planning the build.The height that your baseboard should be will invariably be a mixture of...

In line with MOROP's NEM standards, Graham Farish track is completely compatible with Peco's, however, most modellers don't like to mix different manufacturers track.It is not just Graham Farish's and Peco's N gauge track that modellers don't like...

Sometimes, us mere mortals completely forget what values we have set to our decoders, other times our decoders just start to misbehave for no reason whatsoever. When the latter happens it's easy for panic to set in as it can appear that your...

Bo-Bo is a common wheel arrangement for many medium sized diesel and most electric locomotives. It indicates that a locomotive has two bogies (one at each end), each bogie has two axles and each axle has 2 wheels giving the locomotive eight wheels...

Soldering irons are a little bit like the children's story "Goldilocks and the three bears": some are too hot, some are too cold and some are just right, but which is which when it comes to modelling and why?An entry-level soldering iron will be...

When railway modellers refer to a baseboard, they are talking about the large flat board on which their railway tracks are permanently attached to.The purpose of a baseboard is to provide a solid and permanent foundation on which a model railway...

7/0.2 wire is what railway modellers most commonly use for wiring auxiliary features to their layouts and to carry power to and from a controller and the tracks. The code simply relates to the number of individual metal strands inside a wire (in...

You can use reed switches on your model railway when you want an action to be triggered by a train passing over a particular section of track. Reed switches work in a very basic way, they have two fine strips of metal placed slightly apart acting...

There are times when you may want to operate more than one set of points using just one switch, examples of locations where this could be an advantage include, crossovers, catch points and when a dedicated route is required, this is not a problem...