Equipment Suppliers

We have listed some of the suppliers that be have purchased equipment from here; these are not usually the only people who can supply the equipment but hope the list might be useful. They are in no specific order but some of the more obscure ones may be listed first.

  • Servo mounting brackets and servos (range of brackets for signals etc): dingoservo.co.uk. SlimSignal.
  • Simple servo mounts: RKEducation.co.uk 
  • 12V dimmable circuits (for adjusting street and building LEDs): RKEducation (build images here)
  • Point Servo Motors: ThePiHut.com
  • DC Shuttle – DC Shuttle with Acceleration SS2A, Block Sinalling
  • Signal Servos: PowerHD HD-1370A
  • Soldered/Pre-etched Sleepers: DCC Concepts, Rails of Sheffield
  • Station/Street lights selectable by height: Layouts4u
  • Tam Valley Accessory Booster: Coastal DCC (coastaldcc.co.uk)
  • Baseboard alignment dowels 8mm: Amazon (Hafele). 
  • 12 Way Board Connectors (ebay search for “12-Pole Plug & Socket 6A Terminal Strip”)
  • Metcalf Model Buildings, and scenery supplies: Peco factory shop, Dorchester Craft Shop (frankherringandsons.com), Rails of Sheffield and Model Railway Solutions (Poole)
  • Model scenery supplies, static grass, applicators etc we use Woodland Scenics from almost any online supplier. 
  • DCC feedback Digikeijs boxes: Coastal DCC, Marks Trains, 
  • YAMoRc current sensing (YD6016LN): Roxley Models
  • Locomotive running lights: DCC Concepts
  • Ratio Signal Kits: formerly Hattons but many other model shops. 
  • Street Lights Freshwater: DMGelectech STLH/1960
  • Station Lights Dockyard: Twin Lamps DMG elektech STLN/DL (12V no resistor)
  • Freshwater station sign: Model Railway Scenes
  • Turntable: Heljan DCC (Talk to us about special considerations when using DCC to operate this).
  • Turntable Water Tower: Dapol C005
  • Z21 Black – Rails of Sheffield

Although much of the equipment is specialised where possible we do try and use local model shops. In particular the Peco factory shop in Beer, Devon holds a huge range of supplies with knowledgeable and helpful staff and the craft shop Frank Herrings in Dorchester carries a decent range of locos and scenery supplies.