Those Platform Lights

As I mentioned earlier in the year, among the detail kits I bought with money I was given for Christmas last year were five kits for building the distinctive gantry-mounted station lights for two of my stations. I built one fairly soon to test out how easy or difficult it would be (difficult!) but it might be good, if I have enough time, to install three of these at Innsdorf station before it is exhibited. So when I have completed the essential tasks that remain I’ll see about getting the other four made up as a single project, storing two for the eventual Bad Moritz station and installing three at Innsdorf.

Installing these will not be very simple, either! I need to get power up to the gantry with the electrical wiring hidden as well as I can; I don’t want a neat and realistic light fitting fed by obvious overscale leads. But first, I’ll get them made. My inclination then is to solder one of the wire tails to the gantry itself so that I only have one lead to take down to platform level, firmly glued to the back of one of the stanchions, then a terminal block underneath can be wired into the switched lighting circuit that controls the street lighting. It is keeping it all insulated but connected which is the challenge when dealing with such fine wires. And remembering to put the resistor in the circuit before connecting the LED to power!