How To Wire Up Your DC Model Railway / Railroad Layout - Tutorial Tuesday Episode 27 

Thanks for sharing Doug, usual excellent video and audio quality. regards Kev

Very good as always Doug nice looking car train in the background too.

Great video makes things look simple thank you Douglas

Love it!!! thanks for showing this and making things simple, for a person who's had a stroke like me and gets confused.

Best channel on model trains.....simplicity is always the key.

I will be retiring at Xmas and one of my first tasks will be to start putting a layout together. Been dreaming of it for years but always put off by the complicated wiring etc ....just found your site and watched two videos tonight and now feel much more confident. With your support and very clear and easy to follow videos I know it's going to work !!

Another good article, Doug. I like the Saracen APC's.

Thanks. This helps a lot. The book I recently bought on track wiring has more chapters dedicated to constructing controllers from scratch than explaining the basics as you have done. You have helped me nicely.

Fine job Doug. now your doing the camera work

Great explanation, just starting to laydown the late father in laws liliput setup and this really has helped.

Great video. Thanks.

Great tutorial. Good learning experience for me. Thanks!

Many thanks that helps a lot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧👍🏻

Thank-you. My bought-in Track Mat layout is coming on. It looks as though some cleaning tlc, especially on the points will help. I' m also thinking (scary?) that replacing track power clips with soldered joints will help. So thanks for the indicated soldering tutodial : to be watched soonish.

I watched this when I was just starting out and I was a little confused. Now after trial and error on my own and after watching this I get it, very very helpful, many thanks.

Hello. Following our communication recently, I took the drastic action of ripping my set-up up, and starting again. Learn by your mistakes is the mantra here. I have spent a good few hours watching your videos, both yours and your sons and found them all to be perfect, and just what I want, they both spur me on and inspire me. However, always a However, a bit like a But coming in. I noticed that a load of your videos are growing whiskers, but nonetheless informative. Is it possible that you still sell the DC Controller box kit and the coach lighting kits. I haven’t got this far yet but working on it. My new and restarted layout is still 8’ x 4’ but instead of cork and gravel type ballast for the track, I have bought a roll of Roofing Felt. A complete roll for just a small amount made my wife ecstatic. Never mind, at 78 years I’m entitled to go nuts now and then, or is it the other way round and go sane? 😂😂😂. Keep going, I’m enjoying watching. Oh and I tried to get onto Instagram, tech failed me so I gave up.

Great video. User friendly and easy to understand. I have a large collection and no layout as yet, but am planning on starting to build one soon which I’m hoping will be a similar size to yours, and the dc wiring although simple has been worrying me. No longer! Job done! Have subscribed. The other thing I’m hoping to achieve on my layout is mechanical point work with levers and I’ve devised a cunning way on how to make it work simply. Perhaps when I put in to testing, I’ll do my first video on here and share my idea with everyone who hates wiring like me! 😂

great info!

to simplify it when I wired my layout up, I used a common colour for one side, and different colours for each circuit so when it came to connecting up I knew at a glance what wires powered up what section of track, so the left side on mine was red, then each other side had a different colour with a trace colour my next step is to wire them all up via standard on/off switches on the live side( multicoloured ) so I can "set the road" electronically via switches, on the earth side connect up using fly leads between the switches I also will be using multi plug connectors to join the controler wires to the rest of the layout

Thank you!