O14 is a set of
model railway
Railway modelling (UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale.
The scale models include locomotives, rolling stock, streetcars, t ...
standards for accurately modelling
narrow-gauge railways
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structur ...
in 1:43.5 (
7 mm scale
7 mm scale, also known as British 0 scale is a model railway scale of 1:43.5 (or 7 mm to 1 ft; hence its name). The scale is thus different from O scale, American 0 scale (1:48) and O scale, European 0 scale (1:45) For standard ga ...
) using gauge track.
The first published O14 standards appeared in ''
Model Railway Constructor
''Model Railway Constructor'' was a monthly British magazine about model railways. The magazine was first published on 15 March 1934. The founder was Ernest F Carter. It came into the Ian Allan Publishing fold with the take-over of Railway World
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'' magazine, September 1951. The article was titled "A Narrow Gauge Layout" and was by Douglas Clayton. He advocated
HO standards, less 2.5mm coupled with coarse scale
OO wheelsets set to 12.5 mm back to back. A subsequent article in 1953 provided details of his layout. Very little more happened regards the development of O14 until
Roy C Link
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published a new set of standards (1993 — revised 1994) in his magazine ''
Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review
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''. They were developed for his range of O14 kits — now produced by David Janes under the name KBscale. They are based on the proven 4 mm scale
EM standards (BRMSB) and are reasonably close to exact scale especially considering the variations to be found in prototype nominal gauge railways.
This scale/gauge combination is managed by the O14 Group (an informal web based society dedicated to finescale 7mm narrow gauge modelling) and supported by the
7mm Narrow Gauge Association.
Related scales
O gauge
O scale (or O gauge) is a scale commonly used for toy trains and rail transport modelling. Introduced by German toy manufacturer Märklin around 1900, by the 1930s three-rail alternating current O gauge was the most common model railroad sca ...
is used for modelling standard-gauge railways in
7 mm scale
7 mm scale, also known as British 0 scale is a model railway scale of 1:43.5 (or 7 mm to 1 ft; hence its name). The scale is thus different from O scale, American 0 scale (1:48) and O scale, European 0 scale (1:45) For standard ga ...
, with
ScaleSeven
ScaleSeven (S7) is a set of finescale model railway standards for 1:43.5 (7 mm scale) using true-to-prototype track and wheel standards. It is principally used to model British standard gauge (), Irish Broad Gauge (), or Great Western broad gauge ...
the accurate scale and complementary set of standards to O14. Other
7 mm scale
7 mm scale, also known as British 0 scale is a model railway scale of 1:43.5 (or 7 mm to 1 ft; hence its name). The scale is thus different from O scale, American 0 scale (1:48) and O scale, European 0 scale (1:45) For standard ga ...
narrow-gauge
model railway
Railway modelling (UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale.
The scale models include locomotives, rolling stock, streetcars, t ...
gauges include:
O16.5,
On30
On30 (also called On2, O16.5 and Oe) gauge is the modelling of narrow gauge railways in O scale on HO () gauge track in 1:48 scale ratio by American and Australian model railroaders, in 1:43.5 scale ratio by British and French model railroade ...
and O21.
See also
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On2 scale
On2 gauge is part of the hobby of rail transport modeling. The name is based on the common USA model railroad O scale ('oh' scale) of 1:48 and refers to the gauge between the rails ( ) and the fact that it is narrow gauge, thus 'On2'.
History
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– the USA equivalent of O14 which models in 1:48 scale on 1/2" gauge track
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Model railway scales
Rail transport modelling uses a variety of scales (ratio between the real world and the model) to ensure scale models look correct when placed next to each other. Model railway scales are standardized worldwide by many organizations and hobbyist ...
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List of rail transport modelling scale standards
This page lists the most relevant model railway scale standards in the world. Most standards are regional, but some have followers in other parts of the world outside their native region, most notably NEM and NMRA. While the most significant stan ...
External links
The official O14 Group website
7 mm scale
Narrow gauge railway modelling
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