Welcome to this specialist bit of the Forum.
Deciding where to put signals on a model railway is difficult, mainly because the distances are so compressed that Distant signals, for example, would often be well off the scene.
I would recommend visiting John Hinson's web-site on signalling matters www.signalbox.org which gives a straightforward description of the British signalling system.
For books I'd suggest "Railway Signalling and Track Plans" by Bob Essery, published by Ian Allan in 2007, ISBN 978 07110 32156. This describes how the prototype did it with some comments at the end about interpreting it into model form.
If you want to post track plans here a couple of us will try and suggest where you might put signals (on the layout, that is!).
Regards,
John Webb
Deciding where to put signals on a model railway is difficult, mainly because the distances are so compressed that Distant signals, for example, would often be well off the scene.
I would recommend visiting John Hinson's web-site on signalling matters www.signalbox.org which gives a straightforward description of the British signalling system.
For books I'd suggest "Railway Signalling and Track Plans" by Bob Essery, published by Ian Allan in 2007, ISBN 978 07110 32156. This describes how the prototype did it with some comments at the end about interpreting it into model form.
If you want to post track plans here a couple of us will try and suggest where you might put signals (on the layout, that is!).
Regards,
John Webb