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Railway song of the week
"Train Song" by Pentangle, from their 1969 album Basket of Light, is a haunting, atmospheric track that blends British folk with elements of jazz and blues. The song opens with a moody bassline and sparse percussion, evoking the slow, hypnotic motion of a train journey, while Jacqui McShee’s ethereal vocals float over intricate acoustic guitar lines from John Renbourn and Bert Jansch. Danny Thompson’s pulsing double bass grounds the track, adding to its sense of movement and solitude. Lyrically minimalist and open to interpretation, the song explores themes of departure and introspection, typical of the folk tradition but filtered through Pentangle’s uniquely progressive lens. Click on the picture to discover it:
No longer do modellers need an in-depth knowledge of wiring or electrics to introduce lighting to their model railways. The Just-Plug method doesn't even work off a controller, instead, it uses an independent power supply that you simply plug into an everyday wall socket.
To get started you will need the "Just-Plug power supply" this is a fancy name for the adaptor that plugs into the wall. Next, you need a "Light Hub", this is your control panel, it has 4 sockets into which you can plug any Just-Plug product, and there are many to choose from including self-adhesive LEDs (for lighting building interiors and station canopies etc), street lighting, rail yard lights, lit billboards, wall mounted lights and even flags that flap in the wind!
Many Just-Plug products come in multi-packs, for example, street lights. These will typically come supplied with a "linker plug", you use this to operate all of the lights in the pack from just one port on your light hub. Each port on the light hub has a dimmer switch so you can choose the level of lighting for each group of lights independently.
Extension leads are readily available for operating lighting on the far side of your layout, they simply plug into the controller and light fixture.
When you are ready to extend your lighting beyond the 4 port capacity of the light hub you can just add another hub onto it using an expansion hub. You do not even need an extra power supply, you can keep on adding additional hubs until you reach a capacity of approximately 50 lighting fixtures.
The lights themselves are bright, low energy and remain cool so won't damage your models, even if the light is to be installed inside the model.
Just-Plug lighting is available for 0, 00/H0 and N gauges. The system is a neat, tidy and effective way to add lighting to your layout. Below is just a small demonstration of the wide range of lighting that is available including a double street lamp, cast iron streetlight, a wooden pole lamp that extends to for use in goods yard, a wall light and the used hubs to control and extend the system.
You can click here to see the full range.
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