I really enjoy ‘tutorial Tuesday’. To the point with no waffle. Great video, and very informative.

Kool Fix. Well Done.

Thanks Doug, that's a proper budget project and one I'll be copying. Now roll on the arrival of the red leds.

brilliant video, thank you

Fantastic tutorial, Doug. Especially the curly wire axle contact. Thank you for sharing.

Depending on the fit of the coach body and the roof to body if it comes off for access you may have to seal gaps with filler or tape to prevent light leakage. A good inexpensive project and it's much more satisfying to do it yourself and if you can't solder learn, it's easy!

Nice, I think I might to get some warm LED's for the LNER teak coaches, thanks for a simple easy to follow tutorial.

For lighting coaches I use the ESU current collectors, part # 50707. You get enough to do 8 axles for $8.95 + $4.00 shipping from Litchfield Station. Cheers from eastern TN

Great info, well done and thank you

Great idea 💡 I’ll be trying that. Good video 😀

Thank you Doug. Great tutorial, and now doing this myself. Just some minor tweaks for my layout that can (for some tracks) run both DC and DCC.

Fantastic video Doug, excellent ideas, and pefect pick up solution, I've been looking for a frictionless pickup idea. Thanks for sharing, and explaining the electronics so clearly and easy to understand.

Excellent job Doug, for what you are paying out and the ease of creation, it’s a brilliant idea, and I didn’t see anything that suggested the light quality was any less than Hornby at all (indeed, I suspect it’s probably better!) and the stay alive characteristics of the capacitor add to its effectiveness. 🤓 Cheers fella, really enjoyable tutorial 👍🍀🍻

Thanks Doug. Nicely explained. They look good.

Very neat and simple....

Brilliant Doug and so well explained

Well done Douglas

Great tutorial - really well explained

Very much a BMR tutorial, thank you Doug

Thanks Doug... really useful video, much appreciated

An excellent video very informative in a simply explained manner that anyone can follow 👍

I have Lima SR coaches don’t have the recess but you can use brake / restaurant compartment for all gear, paint windows black behind the white and it’s done looks brilliant.

Hello,nice work fitting LED lights on the coach, certainly looks effective on the track and in the dark.

Nice tutorial, and very BMR. I'm planning to use some surface mount LEDs (with wires preattached) for my n gauge DMU project - smaller, fiddler, pricier (a bit), but still bright.

Great - thanks Doug

Great stuff and easy to follow. Hornby coaches I was converting had no space under seats so had to put components in the end partition. That meant both lights coming from end of carriage. Still looked ok. When I run out of the 5mm leds, I'll go for 2mm 12 volts as the 5mms are too large. I have one coach fitted with a 1.8 3 volt (which needed resistors on each side), looks great too.

Best explanation and video production on this topic i have seen, thanks!!

One of the greatest ideas I have ever seen for model railways up to this date ! I take note, it's just brilliant. Fun fact, on the prototypes of your car (BR Mk 3), the cabinets under the coaches are used for the EC and the lightning systems.

Yes Doug I did thanks

Brilliant (no pun intended!)🙂

Very good solution thank you. It works on DCC great too. Sadly the wheels seem slightly too short for my Transport for Wales train, they keep falling out.

My LNER teak composites came with the metal wheels, but they were from a starter kit.

Great video for DC layouts, but for DCC systems I would advise using 25v capacitors as 16v is too low, also all LEDs require a resistor to limit the current and although the ones you purchased appear to have one, if the voltage is greater than 12v, i.e. DCC then an additional resistor is required to prevent over driving the LEDs

Hello, thank you for the great video. I need some help. I did everything exactly as you did, but the lamp turns on and then the power goes off. If I remove the capacitor, it works, but the light flickers. Why is this happening? Please help. I'm losing sleep over this. For your reference, I am using DC power. cheers

Great video. Fantastic idea for coach lighting on a budget. I'll have to give that a go for my passenger stock.

Great idea and an excellent tutorial. A suggestion, get some cheap seated passengers from China in 1:50 scale approx. £7 for a hundred. Really sets your coaches off.

Great idea and so much better and cost effective than an overpriced lighting kit! Would it be possible to use winding wire from a transformer? It's varnished to insulate it and much thiner - it's only carrying a small amount of current for the LEDs, so a thick gauge isn't needed. That would remove the need to pass two plastic insulated cables though from the bogie to the carriage body. People used to burn off the varnish, but you don't want to be breathing in that stuff (plus soot isn't a great flux). Melt a good sized blob of solder on your iron and run the tip of the wire through that to melt the varnish. Dispose of that solder and then you're good to go.

Hey fellas, good tutorial here. Any chance you guys mind sharing where this wire can be bought? Can't really find it anywhere in the UK, but some ship from China which takes a few months 😂 Many thanks!

Well done, Doug! How's the Lord of the Manor?

Be sure to get LEDs with resistors (as the ones shown) as that both reduces the power consumption and keeps them going a bit longer if running from the capacitor. For increased reliability you can duplicate the pickups. If you have the luck of having a vehicle that has been factory wired, the best place to put the capacitor is the end vestibule or the toilet

Great video, i bought a few strips of adhesive leds from wish on a reel that i can cut and solder wires to that are 12v already, just need to fit some resistors to as they are too bright, but struggling to fnd the correct wheels to use, i bought some dapol ones but they are not conductive, tried searching for the ones you used but can not find them online, do you have the part number for them please? thanks

Thank you. Would this work for coaches on a DCC powered layout? Thinking about the rectifier.

Would this method work with N Gauge as well?

I've gone ahead and ordered everything in to do this... except for the wire. Searching for solid core wire brings up so much choice, I'm not sure I'm looking at the right kind. Any chance Doug can add some details to the video description please?

Where do you get your thin solder reel frpm please

What voltage leds were those?

Depending on the wheels fitted, it might be cheaper to install pickups that rub the wheel backs rather than replace the wheels.

Are you lighting up the neighbourhood with these lights. my god they're bright

The car is lit up like a football field at midnight. Bright and cold. Terrible.