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Roger Manning gave a comprehensive talk to Leicester Model Railway Group Virtual Clubnight on 12th May 2021 on modelling Signalling systems for Model Railway layouts.

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Leicester Model Railway Group held their 70th Anniversary Exhibition at St. Margarets Church in Leicester on 17th and 18th August 2019.

A short video has been produced by one of our visitors Martin Edwards, and can be viewed on his YouTube channel:-

Amongst the many new layouts on display, we also demonstrated :-

Automatic Signalling (on a budget!)

We demonstrated an automatic signalling system on our N-gauge layout controlled by a simple, readily available, easy to program, and cheap (~£9) microcontroller – an “Arduino Nano” – and infra-red sensors in the track (~ 60p each).

Wireless Control of Trains

Using a small computer – “Raspberry Pi” – to run a wireless network and the free JMRI software to control trains under Digital Command Control (DCC).  We are also using an “Arduino Mega” with a “motor shield” to power the layout using the free “DCC++” software system.  Trains can be controlled using free mobile phone apps – “EngineDriver” for Android^TM or “WiThrottle” for iPhone^TM  

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A video of Leicester Model Railway Group's "OO"-gauge fixed layout, taken at the beginning of 2020 using a wagon mounted Sony HDR-AZ1 camera. (Sound file from soundboard.com and video editor VideoPad by NCH software)