London Underground model railway 17 - layout lighting & footbridge repairs 

I like the contrast between warm and cold lights - fits your back story

You have certainly got the right amount of lighting for that station mate. And it is a great idea to leave one platform essentially in a ‘before’ state and have a contrasting ‘new’ platform alongside! 😎 Did make me chuckle, cos when you said you were not sure what to do about the white light on the ‘before’ platform I just said ‘get some Tamiya yellow glow stuff”, and you then said you were going to do that very thing seconds later! 😄 You then said “I think that looks pretty good” and my immediate thought was “looks great but the footbridge looks a bit bright”…and you then cut to where you had installed new resistors 😅 I should have known what was coming when you said you weren’t sure about adding the lamp on the other side of the footbridge steps on the island platform: “do it!” I say and hey presto 🤣😂😅 Does look right though, not least because it nicely lights up the roundel for incoming passengers 🤓 The signal box looks fantastic now. The main light looks great to and me doesn’t look too bright, and the lit up access route sets it off brilliantly. Love the stove too 😍 Great content mate and hope you have a great break on NYC 🍻👍🍀

You had me at lighting and I stayed for the underground and models.

Ah another underground Eric who is ironically overground video! This man is an inspiration!

Well done Eric, great job. Lighting certainly transforms our model railways.

Impressive lighting Eric. I wouldn't be afraid to catch the night train

That unit can be programmed to flicker when switched on... adds tones of reality. Have a read of the instructions!

Neat cabling is always a great thing. However, when you separate the two bus wires like that, you actually creates an issue, as your wires will create a magnetic field, and by that create a higher inductance in the wires. The inductance is essentially resistance in the AC domain, and as the DCC signal somewhat resembles an AC signal, your DCC signal can’t travel as far. Better option would be to keep the bus wires together to minimize the inductance. In your case it might be rather stupid to keep the wires wrapped around each other, as it may introduce shorts 😉

Good job. You have captured the mood of a platform at night. It looks like real life! To play around with the lighting, maybe consider variable resistors.

My day is ten times better when you post eric

That footbridge looks fantastic Eric, them lights make it on the stairs great video again mate

Love the lighting. All your decisions are good calls.

Well done Eric another fine piece of craft work, layout is looking amazing

Another super video, the lighting effects are amazing.

Amazing job..everything looks great in the dark. Very enjoyable Eric...all the best.

its really comming along, always happy to follow your progress :)

Thanks Eric another good video Food for thought

This looks so much better, easy to sometimes forget it’s a working scene; a model in its own right; looking forward to seeing some trains running. Totally inspired with this, all the best for New York trip. Regards Marc from Leighton Buzzard

Great effort with the lighting, really does bring the scene to life. The day/night lighting is really something!

Great work! Love the lights! Joe

Looking absolutely fabulous it’s amazing the what the lights can make on a layout be waiting for next video

Eric, love the lighting, fantastic .👍

nothing wrong with solid core cable eric electricity companies use it, telecom companies use it, computer cabling is solid core any cabling that is static ,the only stranded cables are leads ie telephone leads rj45 computer leads your table lamp basically anything that can be moved about ,another terrific vid

Hi Eric, your patience with the foot bridge really paid off and the overall lighting scene is up to your usual standard 👏 cheers Al

well done eric.

Nice one Eric. 👍

ooooo better make tea and get comfortable. Eric you are churning out the vids, its fkin awesome

With the warm white, cool white and dulled white with the Tamiya clear, I reckon you've made the lighting even more realistic. All you need to do is wire in one flickering LED, and you've nailed it 😉😁

Eric this lighting and attention to detail is a superb step in your ever increasingly brilliant layout ❤️ Thanks for making your videos and sharing your build with us 💜

As usual, you have got me thinking about my own layout!

First visit to your channel, enjoying your modelling immensely. have a sub 😉

As well as CMX there is also the Sharge track cleaner, which does the same thing, but looks a bit prettier. When I went shopping they were similar prices.

Brilliant stuff

Lighting looks amazing. Hi from NZ...

Pleasure as always...I like your laid back approach...got the lights running too !!

exceptional

As to your New York trip - give my regards to Ealing Broadway.

Hi Eric. Great layout indeed ! Your track looks amazing and immaculate. I’m building my first layout and using peco flexi track and it’s starting to do my head in so leave it for a few days then go back to it ! Your station also looking amazing. Actually looks real 😮 Great video as always 👍

Impressive !

Awesome mate

Nice job, but the side of the transformer house is a bit bright. 🌞

On the lighting: I am not a big fan of the Digikeijs approach of using RGB lights to simulate daylight: the colours are too saturated (night time is never bright purple, for example) and the white is not very good (low CRI). A better approach would be to use a mix of very warm white (~2,000K), daylight white (5,500K) and very cool white (~7,100K) and change the balance and brightness of these to simulate cloudy daylight, midday daylight, morning/evening daylight and moonlight.

How is the little layout growing eric hope you had a nice new year

Really like the look of the lighting . The double platform lights I’ve only seen mounted at right angles to the track, not parallel ?

Hi Eric, great videos thank you! Do you have any suggestions for an alternative to the DR4050? Yamorc have confirmed they are not planning to make anything similar. I can't find another obvious DCC option that will automatically dim the layout lights in a day/night cycle like the DR 4050.

do you have a link for the day and night lights

A most useful video. Does anyone know the manufacturer of the single and double platform lights please

Wher can I find a cheap horse of dcc chips thanks

Nice lighting! I see that you use a TCS throttle - how do you find it?

Eric do you offer guest model train driving on harefeled