Command station

The heart of a digital layout: the device that generates driving and switching commands and puts them on the track.

Dutch

centrale

German

Zentrale

Example

Märklin Central Station 3 (60226) and Mobile Station 3 (60657).

Articles using this term

• Rail joiners and joints: current and alignment
• DCC and Märklin Motorola: digital protocols
• DC and AC: two-rail and three-rail explained
• Analogue or digital control?
• Mixing Märklin and two-rail: why it does not work
• Sidings and buffer stops: why and where
• Turnout won't throw
• Double oval: two trains at once
• Shuttle line: running back and forth without a loop
• Locomotive stalls on the frog
• The reversing loop: how it works and how to avoid a short circuit

See also

• Booster
• Digital control
• Controller