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I was tidying up the layout last night and decided that I really wasn't happy with the position of the signal box. It had been at at the end of the platform, theoretically to give the signalman a good view of the whole station area. In fact, it just meant for an unusually abrupt end to the platform,...

It's been a while since I last posted, but I wanted to share these pictures of the dust cover I've knocked up for my layout. It's just an old white bed sheet, cut slightly to size. At the back of the layout it's attached to the backscene board using a few bulldog clips, and the excess just draped do...

I reckon you need a bat logo on the side of a guard's van at the end of those goods vans.

NE NE NE NE NE NE NE NE ... Bat van! Geddit?

Sorry, I'll shut up now...

Time for a shameless plug... I created a little web app specifically for this purpose earlier this year. LocoSound runs in a web browser, and is really optimised for mobile devices but should run on anything really. There's no link between the sound and the actual controller of course, so you'd need...

A few more photos:

Hi everyone I've so far been more active on the modelrailwayforum.co.uk site, but as that's down at the moment I figured I'd join this community more wholeheartedly and tell you about my layout. The build started in the summer of 2017, using track, scenery and rolling stock from my childhood layout....

The easy answer is medium grade in grey, simply because it's 'average'. The 'correct' answer is whatever looks right for your particular layout. In reality, a mixture of medium and fine grade will probably look really good, but I wouldn't stress about it too much - unless you are trying to model som...