My article in the German “ADJ” magazine¶

Tags: eifelburgenbahn, trains

I’ve got a realistic German model railway in my attic and I tend to take that realism seriously. So I spend a lot of time researching things like proper signalling and operation. For mainline operations, you can find a lot of information on signalling. Everything is by the book. But for simple single track branch lines, things get harder to figure out.

How do things work when there are no electrical block systems between the stations and all you have is a telephone line? And what if the station isn’t even manned? No signals? Anyway, it has been fun trying to figure it out. I’ve made a 45 minute video explaining it in the context of one of my two stations.

And… I’ve re-worked the video into a proper article for the German Anlagen Design Journal, the #17 issue.

On five pages, I’m allowed to explain the German theory and the (mostly cheap) practical solutions I used for my “Eifelburgenbahn” layout.

Note: I also really like the rest of this issue, it is one of the best in the series. If you can read German and like model railways, you might want to snag a copy for just €8 as an “Einzelheftbestellung” directly from the small publisher (Tip, #6 has my other big article: a good summary of my layout.)