Tracks

One way to fix track to a baseboard is by tacking it down with special pins or nails. If you look closely at the sleepers on most set track and some flexible track, you will notice that every so often there is a tiny hole in the middle of the...

In line with MOROP's NEM standards, Graham Farish track is completely compatible with Peco's, however, most modellers don't like to mix different manufacturers track.It is not just Graham Farish's and Peco's N gauge track that modellers don't like...

Catch points (sometimes referred to as trap points) are a kind of turnout usually positioned at the end of sidings to prevent rolling stock accidentally venturing onto the mainline without clearance.There are different types of catch points,...

In the world of model railways, there is no physical difference between a point and a turnout. They are simply different terms that refer to the same thing, however, in the real world they are very different.When modellers refer to a point, they...

For those not in the know, rail joiners are the little metal clips (sometimes referred to as fishplates) that connect sections of model railway track together. Specifically, it's the metal rail part of the track section that slides into the rail...

A crossover is a railway track formation that allows a train to cross from one line to another.Crossovers are constructed from two turnouts (points) to facilitate a train movement from one track to another. A typical arrangement would be to have...

A TPWS (Train Protection & Warning System) grid is an apparatus used on the railway as part of the ATP (Automatic Train Protection) system. Specifically, it is a transmitter placed on the track adjacent to a signal and is activated when the signal...

From a modeller's perspective, there is no practical difference between bullhead and flat-bottom rail. The existence of two variants merely facilitates modellers who wish to represent a particular era in railway history. But why did the real...

A unifrog turnout can perform as an electrofrog or an insulfrog turnout, that means that there is no longer a need for two products.A unifrog turnout works by having a metal frog, but the frog is isolated when in its default setting, this means...

Wagon turntables were similar in principle to full-size ones used to turn locomotives, they were however smaller and performed a different function.Wagon turntables were as the name suggests only large enough to accommodate wagons (or other...

Although there are many different types of buffer stops, they can be primarily separated into two types, fixed or friction.Fixed buffer stops are a type of permanently fixed railway buffer that won't move or absorb energy when a train makes...

Joining sections of flexible track mid-curve can often result in small but annoying straight pieces of rail where two sections of track meet in an otherwise perfectly flowing curve. This is caused by the metal rail's memory causing tension as it...