Bus wire for a garden railway

[ge_rik]

In the days before I went dead rail, I bonded all my rail joints with soldered jumpers.



As my garden is north facing and some parts are almost continually damp, I couldn't rely solely on fishplate rail joiners. The occasional dry solder joint confirmed this after a while.

For remote points operation, I used 1.5mm twin and earth cable which is still in use after nearly twenty years.

Rik

 

[Gavin Sowry]

Che

Otago Miniature Road and Rail Society at Wal's Funland in Mosgiel.

Check out the latest (November 2024) issue of Garden Whistle for a review of our Wellington running day at mine last weekend.

 

[GAP]

Che

Check out the latest (November 2024) issue of Garden Whistle for a review of our Wellington running day at mine last weekend.

Gavin,
I used to be able to get the Garden Whistle (got a few good ideas from it) via the net but then it stopped is it available again?
If so how can I see it.

 

[Monty]

Gavin,
I used to be able to get the Garden Whistle (got a few good ideas from it) via the net but then it stopped is it available again?
If so how can I see it.

DuckDuckGo gave me this link which seems to have links to a number of newsletters including GW, hope this works/helps.... Newsletters
cheers,
Ian

 

[Bill Bagal]

Che

Check out the latest (November 2024) issue of Garden Whistle for a review of our Wellington running day at mine last weekend.

Thank you Gavin. GW arrived recently and saw the article.

 

[dunnyrail]

DuckDuckGo gave me this link which seems to have links to a number of newsletters including GW, hope this works/helps.... Newsletters
cheers,
Ian

Interesting piece in No 300 issue about the most beautiful locomotive talking about Mallard with a picture of Duchess of Hamilton in the picture. The text did not actually suggest it was Mallard but the inference was there. I am sure you would be shocked if I started talking about a USRA Pacific with a picture of a Penssy K4?

 

[Dan]

I used the wire from the low voltage garden/sidewalk lights. This wire is made to be water proof and can be buried, and the lights with leds (low current) most came with auto type light bulbs (High current) can be used some ware else also.
I made a figure 8 layout and the 90 degree crossover has all rails powered via wire therefore this feeds power from 2 directions in each loop.

Only drawback is this wire is 14 amp.