Polarity SWITCHING
In the final part of his three-part garden railway series, MIKE WILD explains how he overcame a complex return loop situation while discovering even greater flexibility could be introduced with a new piece of trackwork and Digital Command Control electronics.
TOOLS
»Pencil
»Steel metre rule
»Mini drill and 1mm drill bit
»Electric drill
»10mm drill bit
»2mm drill bit
»Soldering iron
»Wire cutters
»Wire strippers
»Hammer
»Crosshead screwdriver
»Flat blade electrical screwdriver


DEVELOPING track plans that are interesting to operate is great fun, but every now and then I stumble across a design which creates a new electrical headache. The return loops of my garden railway are just one of those.