Tag: scale
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Purpose
At one level, planning the course of a garden railway is simply a question of: “how would I like to lay out my train set?” But for an involving, operationally interesting and authentic railway, it’s worth thinking a bit about what the purpose of the line will be.
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Scale and Gauge
Size matters in the garden – if only because your N gauge train isn’t going to cope very well when it encounters a fall leaf or twig. Some people manage to run 00 gauge outdoors, but generally it’s the larger scales that are popular.