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2mm Down the Tube
Issue 43 (1990)
p.641
2mm
The working Underground station on the Model Railway Club's remarkable 'Copenhagen Fields' layout is a project Stewart Hine stumbled into - and from which he coudn't escape! Representing a tiny prototype in a tiny scale was tricky enough, but it all had to be installed in the hot and gloomy bowels of the main baseboards - an automatic layout-within-a-layout.
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A light on DCC short circuits
Issue 205 (2011)
p.69
Peter Ross presents a solution to an annoying problem that will be familiar to those that have chosen to adopt DCC operation.
Using light bulbs to avoid short-circuits triggering DCC overload protection shutdowns.
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A Memory-Wire Turnout Operating Unit
Issue 112 (1999)
p.184
Move your point blades more realistically with this scaratchbuilt unit.
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A polarity paradox
Issue 117 (2000)
p.52
Bob Haskins wires a 3 way turnout
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A polarity paradox revisited
Issue 118 (2000)
p.102
Peter Squibb's amended drawing omitted from the corresponding article in MRJ No. 117
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A Sauce for Semaphores - Part 1: In Search of a Recipe
Issue 111 (1999)
p.153
Experimenting with relays has led to an improved signal actuating unit controlled electronically.
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A Self-Indicating Electric Buffer
Issue 168 (2006)
p.183
J Douglas Smith makes a well-tried device more user-friendly.
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Block Instruments for Stockport Tiviot Dale and Millhouses & Eccleshall
Issue 215 (2012)
p.147
MRJ series - Miniature Block Instruments
Richard Challis explains how he devised the electrical system behind the miniature block instruments now in use on two layouts
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Block Working With Computers
Issue 61 (1993)
p.74
Peter Denny had an electro-mechanical unit to which he could offer trains. Ian Everett comes up with a modern digital replica which he calls "Digital Crispin".
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Fence Houses
Issue 207 (2011)
p.137
2mm/2mm FS
With a circuit providing a scale equivalent of 3 miles, Bob Jones' Fence Houses may well be the biggest 2mm Finescale layout in the world. Here, Les Waters, a member of the team behind it, explains how he persuaded Bob to make the most of new technology.
Planning, baseboards and lighting, trackwork, wiring, turnout motors and decoders, operation and future plans.