Garden Railway Forum

hello to all the forum users
this might include you do you know a website or modle shop that sells lights for the railway ( O gauge ) ? if so please contact us

meadowcroft-garden-railway@live.com
or
www.meadowcroft-garden-railway.webs.com

thankyou

Tom wilkes

M-G-R
est.2009

Hello and welcome to the forum. What sort of layout do you have, indoor or outdoor? do you want to light the area or just inside buildings?

I see from your website that you are an outdoor layout What do you want to light?

well I would like it to light the area its not a big area but any thing would do like the standard gauge railway works lights ( but smaller ) and thankyou and the lay out is not conected like some railway's are
it is a U shape and the new part of the line has a passing loop and thats where i would like the lights to go
plz get back to me as soon as you can

so you are looking for lights that look like standard gauge street lamps? I'm not a shop but was trying to clarify what you need to point you in the right direction.

I presume you would run them on a 12v supply as that makes things a lot safer in the garden. if street lighting is what you need

Something like this would give you the bulbs
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/10-x-Grain-Wheat- ... 1507wt_754
Then you need to build a pole (drinking straws would do ) and the top can be made of clear plastic.

I don't know of anyone that makes lights for the garden but for general lighting many use the standard garden solar lights.

thankyou so much for all your help and i shall get to that asap thanks and good luck in the futer for your railway
Tom
oh and will i need to get a plug and some wire with it so they work ? if so i will be fine from there on

Welcome to the forum
If your luooking for lights for coaches or building as i have some lights that are self addesive, they are a strip of led's that can be cut to size.

M-G-Railway:45626 wrote:thankyou so much for all your help and i shall get to that asap thanks and good luck in the futer for your railway
Tom
oh and will i need to get a plug and some wire with it so they work ? if so i will be fine from there on

Electricity in the garden can be dangerous. Lots of people use battery rather than something that is plugged into the mains. 12V lights are for running from a direct source such as a battery and would explode if you put mains power to them without transforming it down to a safe voltage.  

     To make up some lights as I suggested you would need to wire the bulbs to a battery or transformer.