Pictures of the poles would be great!
As for wires there are several schools of thought on this. In reality a scale width cable would be so thin as to be virtually impossible to model. Some modelers will leave the poles without wires, other will string wires. One of the issue of stringing wires is how likely are they to be snagged during normal operation of the layout. You can imagine the disaster that could occur with a whole string of poles pulled down. You can use Lycra thread in a dark color. It will stretch and minimize damage, or at least reduce it. I would expect that a good sewing store in England would have this thread.
I grew up in and around Bedford for several years of my childhood and have fond memories of visiting and uncle and aunt in Gt. Yarmouth. A really nice part of the UK is East Anglia.
Welcome to the forum by the way.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
And I live in Bedford right now! Not in England, mind you, but Bedford, Massachusetts.
There is a product made specifically for this purpose. Unfortunately, my hard drive crashed, and I've lost the link. It's an extremely stretchable thread which many modellers have used and raved about. You install it with a bit of slack, like real wire, but it will stretch and recover if you accidentally snag it on a tool or piece of rolling stock while working on your layout.
Hopefully, somebody else can post a link for it.
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Welcome to the forum. Some of us LOVE pics, so have at it.
I would string the wires; even if they are not visible in the prototype, we know they are there. If there are none on the layout it will look like the poles are not in use.
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simon1966 wrote:I beleive that EZ line is just Lycra thread made to cost more as it is sold for RR use