British N gauge

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British N gauge
Standard gauge

British N gauge is a model railway scale and gauge, rolling stock is to a scale of 1:148,

standard gauge
rails.

Background

When

British TT gauge
in Britain. However, since N scales to 1,332-millimetre (4 ft 4.4 in) gauge, it is less out of scale than OO (1,257 mm or 4 ft 1.5 in) or TT3 (1,219 mm or 4 ft 0 in) in representing the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge.

Manufacturers

  • Graham Farish is the most prolific manufacturer, producing British locomotives, rolling stock and buildings.
  • Peco manufactures track and British outlined buildings in kit form and rollingstock.
  • Dapol produces locomotives and rolling stock.
  • Revolution Trains produce British locomotives and rolling stock
  • Fleischmann produces track locomotives and rolling stock etc.
  • Other companies produce kits for buildings, rolling stock and other parts - including Metcalfe models, Ratio, P&D Marsh and others.
  • CJM Models produce hand built models of locomotives and other rolling stock.[2]

Former manufacturers

  • Minitrix/Hornby - prior to being taken over by Märklin Minitrix produced British outline rolling stock and locomotives, which were sold in association with Hornby.[3]
  • Lima - Produced some rolling stock and locomotives
  • Hornby produced British outline buildings in N gauge as part of its Lyddle End range.

Related scales

2mm finescale, which has 9.42mm track and a scale of 1:152.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b British N Scale Standards Archived 2013-02-03 at archive.today teladesign.com
  2. ^ CJM Models website cjmmodels.co.uk
  3. ^ Minitrix Archived 2012-07-16 at archive.today teladesign.com

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