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Light up with Magnets – How to easily and flexibly illuminate your buildings

A simple technique for wiring your buildings for lighting while still allowing them to be easily moved and worked on. [...]

How to fit platform lights

No model railway station is complete without platform lighting. Here's how to do it in five simple steps and a video walkthrough. [...]

3 Model Railway Building Tricks You Can Learn From Blade Runner

blade runner model railway 2
Three tricks used by the master model makers behind Blade Runner that you can use to improve your model railway. [...]

Cheap, easy, lights for your layout

Cheap and easy lights for model railways
Let me brighten up your railway with this quick and cheap way of adding lights to your layout. [...]

How to wire up LED lights on your model railway – the simple guide

addiston south model railway
I've covered the mechanical aspects of making street lights before, this post, however, focuses on the electrical element of wiring LEDs for buildings such as [...]