Model Railway Signals at Chadwick Model Railway | 104. 

What a heartwarming comment Simon, many thanks.

Hi Charlie thanks for all your hard work in producing these very enjoyable and informative videos very enjoyable indeed.

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And such excellent artistic work of the trains I thought!!! Regards Charlie

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Clearly a great choice Kev.

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Being a current Signaller, (at Wimbledon Signalling Centre who runs trains in and out of Waterloo and through Clapham Junction) I found this video particularly enjoyable. Your explanation of signalling was both extremely accurate and informative. Keep up the good work.Thank you Charlie.

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You're not wrong about the points though. Virtually any set of points on normal running lines will be protected by signals. A simple way to look at it: absolutely *anything* a train needs to do has a signal for that purpose. Without points/junctions, signalling is pretty straightforward, as Charlie explained. It's when the train has choices, that's where it can get complicated. Oversimplified but, half of signals are to allow trains to do things, the other half are to *stop* them doing things. If there are points though, there should be signals of *some* sort, except in goods yards and even then............. 😁

@@2H80vids Depends what era you are talking about. There were many main to main crossovers that were not signalled often in station platforms. These were used mainly for engineering work or emergency use and they were not signalled. Just depends how detailed you want the modelling to be.

@@Chucklesrailarchive While you can find a "prototype for everything" and there are/were many oddball signalling installations, a fairly good rule of thumb is: a passenger train will only make signalled moves. While special instructions might allow a goods train to be moved under a hand signal, it would take an emergency situation for this to happen with a passenger train. From a modeller's point of view, one useful "workaround" could be the flag, shown from the signal box. Too small to model accurately(or is it?) it could account for a passenger train using an unsignalled crossover. Another thing often forgotten on a lot of layouts: wherever possible, facing crossovers are avoided on main lines. When possible, a trailing crossover with ground signals will be used. A facing crossover will, nine times out of ten, be fully signalled. As you say though, engineering works/emergencies can cover a lot of anomalies, as can modellers' licence. Few people have the space to signal their layout "properly". If an oval, with no points, is to have a signal box, it needs signals, and few layouts have the space to leave correct distances between a distant and a home signal. Like everything else, it's what the modeller is happy with, that's what's important. If they want to do it as properly as possible, there are plenty of books/websites out there to help.😁

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I’m sure there is still an enormous amount to learn on this modelling nightmare

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Try it on the big railway, we have Absolute Block with semaphore or colour lights, Track Circuit Block with Semaphore or Colour light, Radio Electronic Token Block plus others I dont get involved with, all as clear as mud.

Oh come on, you don't have to jam everything into a single layout. Just like you probably don't have Eurostar, a complex yard with a hump and a cogwheel line on the same table.

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Thanks Robin but I do need to make the video is suitable for both breeds of modeller

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Thanks Larry, what a heartwarming comment. I do hope you can build a successful layout, but remember don’t go too big too early. Regards Charlie

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That’s very kind of you to say so Wim. Regards Charlie.

An excellent comment Martin thank you, regards Charlie

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You’re a lucky man Christopher. I wouldn’t mind a couple of those signals myself. They would look great in my railway room mounted on the wall.

@@ChadwickModelRailway im planning to restore my semaphore and build it back to a working semaphore signal to put it in my Garden

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A great achievement in such a small scale David.

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Wow, what a great achievement. That could be a lucrative cottage industry.

brilliant idea about a 3d- printer - would be great to see a video of yours producing the signals - I could be very tempted

Well said HJ.

Thanks Darren