Hi
Probably not much room in my opinion unless the five Sidings? in the middle can be utilised as a small station for a dmu . Great start but constructively track us  too close to the board edge to incorporate any station

Chris

Quote from: crewearpley40 on Today at 05:59:55 AMHi
Probably not much room in my opinion unless the five Sidings? in the middle can be utilised as a small station for a dmu . Great start but constructively track us  too close to the board edge to incorporate any station

Chris

Thanks and appreciated

I had to build close to the board edges in order to accommodate curves of sufficient radius for an 8 car Pendolino at full pelt. I'll build some protective barriers eventually and a back scene on the right hand side.

There's space for a 5cm wide platform on the right hand side which would then border the backscene. Hence the idea for a low relief station building on the same platform, if anybody actually makes one?

With regard to signals, the brand of track is irrelevant as there's no connection between the two unless you're using some kind of detection or DC / ABC isolating section linked to or controlled by the signal.
 
The important thing is to ensure the signals you choose are compatible with being driven by a DCC signal decoder if that's the method you wish to use.  That tends to imply the signals must use common positive wiring (not common negative).     
Otherwise the simple option is a control panel with toggle switches on a totally separate power circuit nothing to do with DCC.
It's worth keeping in mind that having signal aspects directly controlled by a point decoder is the simple approach but not necessarily prototypically accurate:  really all the points for the required route should be set first and only then the signal is cleared.

Fair enough. I would scratchbuild platform and Google station building n gauge low relief, plenty of choice I have noticed.

Guess your seeking a modern building!

Hi,

I use signals from Absolute Aspects, they're not cheap but are very good.

BTW, the Pendo has 9 cars 

John P

Quote from: ntpntpntp on Today at 11:31:24 AMWith regard to signals, the brand of track is irrelevant as there's no connection between the two unless you're using some kind of detection or DC / ABC isolating section linked to or controlled by the signal.
 
The important thing is to ensure the signals you choose are compatible with being driven by a DCC signal decoder if that's the method you wish to use.  That tends to imply the signals must use common positive wiring (not common negative).     
Otherwise the simple option is a control panel with toggle switches on a totally separate power circuit nothing to do with DCC.
It's worth keeping in mind that having signal aspects directly controlled by a point decoder is the simple approach but not necessarily prototypically accurate:  really all the points for the required route should be set first and only then the signal is cleared.

Thanks to all for replies

On the signals issue I don't clearly understand what common positive is as opposed to common negative!

When I've browsed the few N gauge signals available the tech descriptions have never been very clear as to DCC compatability - when they say 12v operating I tend to assume they are DC; the exception is the Absolute Aspects signals mentioned above but they are very expensive for an amateur!

LED's are used for all colour light signals, so the way they are wired up determines what accessory decoder and other bits you night need.

Common +ve and common -ve refer to how the LED's are wired.

So, for example, Absolute Aspects N Gauge signals are wired Common +ve, so is the Yamorc YD8116 accessory decoder so you can use both together without any extra bits and pieces.

FYI the AA website says that their signals are common -ve, but that's just the OO gauge ones.

Regards,

John P