Holgate, operated by the Bridlington Model Railway Society, became an important real-world proving ground for DCC-EX systems and the evolution towards the CSB1 Ready-to-Run platform. This article explores how exhibition operation, expanding...

How do you know where a train is on an automated model railway? Discover how the Holgate team tested RailCom, Hall Effect sensors, infrared detectors and current detection before finding a practical...

In the previous Holgate article , we looked at why reliable model railway block detection became increasingly important as the layout developed, and how that requirement eventually led us towards developing our...