BEGINNER’S GUIDE: Model railway controller choices

Analogue or digital, app or handset, there are new important choices when it comes to driving your model railway locomotives. We surveys the options.

Digital control allows multiple trains to be controlled from a single handset as well as lights, sounds, points, signals and more.

Above: Digital control allows multiple trains to be controlled from a single handset as well as lights, sounds, points, signals and more.

THE DIGITAL age has driven model railway control in new directions and opened up new possibilities for play value and operation of our miniature worlds. There are two primary types of control system available, analogue and digital, which differ radically in their capabilities.

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