16mm signals

[Rob]

Whilst searching 16mm accessories the other day, I came across some nice plastic semaphore signals but having tried all the websites and Google, I can't seem to find them again.

They where and all plastic kit, including the signal post aswel, and if I remember right, very reasonably priced at something like £8.

Has anyone come across a similar signal to what I'm describing?[/url]

[philipy]

Sorry I can't help, but if you find them can you let us know please? I'm currently contemplating signals myself.

If it was literally "the other day", can you not look back through your browser history?

[-steves-]

Would this be them?

http://cambrianmodels.co.uk/16sigfig.html

[-steves-]

Or if you want them made for you and you have a bit of spare cash to spend?

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~chazharr ... 20spec.htm

[-steves-]

Or you could follow our own Rik's approach

http://riksrailway.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... gnals.html

[-steves-]

more options

http://www.carnforthmodels.co.uk/page4.htm

Gauge 1 but I am sure could be modified http://www.tenmille.com/Trackside.html

[Chris Cairns]

At £8 it will be the Modeltown ones? - http://www.modeltown.go-ecommerce.com/s ... 17-1274003

Chris Cairns

[TonyW]

Signals on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/spara01/m.html

[andymctractor]

I bought a number of signal kits from Pendle Valley during the recent show at Peterborough. These are the ones given as an option by -steves- listed under carnforthmodels.
I appreciate they are £23 and a lot more expensive than your target price and I haven't built mine yet but they look very good and likely to be robust in use. (I appreciate that I'm recommending them by peering into my 'to do' box. )
I started with a plan for signalling that was far too ambitious. When I factored in the price of the kits I was forced to reduce signalling to something like a minimum set up. As narrow gauge lines usually tend/tended to have minimal signalling, if any at all, I was forced into a more realistic albeit freelance approach.

Good luck

[-steves-]

At £8 it will be the Modeltown ones? - http://www.modeltown.go-ecommerce.com/s ... 17-1274003

Chris Cairns

Good find, thats probably the ones

[Rob]

At £8 it will be the Modeltown ones? - http://www.modeltown.go-ecommerce.com/s ... 17-1274003

Chris Cairns

Good find, thats probably the ones

Spot on Chris thanks

[Rob]

Must have tipped someone off on these signals because they are now out of stock

[Howardws]

The maximum permissible speed on my railway is 15 miles per hour - therefore no signals required!

[merlin2]

These are Modeltown signals with added lamps and ladders. For the initial price and the cost of the lamps, ladders and bits of Plastruct, etc I think that they make very acceptable signals at an economic price. This is two of four currently in service, with a least another four to be built. The power for the LED in the lamp is via self adhesive copper tape on the back of the post, with thin wire between the top of the post and the LED, and again from the base, through a hole to a terminal block under the baseboard. To stop them falling over a plastic dowel is inserted into a hole drilled into the base of the signal, which then slots into a hole in the baseboard; so two holes per signal, one for the dowel and a smaller one for the wires.

Don't know what's wrong with the first signal, but he's been up that ladder for a week!

[Rob]

Thanks for all the replies, I've purchased 2 of the signals from carnforth models as the model town ones where out of stock. I'll keep you posted on how the carnforth ones turn out

[stoker]

merlin2;

I do hope that you are paying overtime rates!

[IrishPeter]

My general approach on for narrow gauge would be home signals on the approach to passing loops, and junctions, and not a lot else.  The Light Railways Act of 1896 required only pretty minimal signalling - homes at loops, etc; distants only when the sighting was bad for the homes - though in practice there was a certain amount of negotiation between the BOT and the Light Railway as to what was acceptable.  The C&MR had homes and starters, but managed to get a 20 mph speed limit out of the BOT, then on the other hand, the WHR was not required to proved fixed signals at all, and even had unmanned (strictly speaking TMO) crossing loops.  

Peter in AZ