British N gauge

British N gauge is a model railway scale and gauge, rolling stock is to a scale of 1:148,
''teladesign.com'' track is width as with all other N gauges making track and rolling stock approximately 10% out of scale with respect to each other. The track width derives from a scale of 1:160 for rails.

Background

When N gauge was developed it proved impossible to fit the then available motors into scale models of British prototype locomotives. British railways use a smaller loading gauge than those in Europe and America, resulting in smaller locomotives. A greater body size was required on the models to accommodate the motors, so instead of adopting the correct 1:160 scale, 1:148 was used. This allows larger models, but means that the gauge is not an accurate representation of standard gauge. A similar problem and solution was adopted with OO gauge and British TT gauge in Britain. However, since N scales to gauge, it is less out of scale than OO () or TT3 () in representing the 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.
*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.

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.Minitrix
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*Lima - Produced some rolling stock and locomotives
* Hornby produced British outline buildings in N gauge as part of its ''Lyddle End'' range.

Related scales

{{main, 2mm finescale
Finescale modellers modelling in this size use 2mm finescale, which has 9.42mm track and a scale of 1:152.

References

External links

N Gauge Forum
N Gauge Community.
British N gauge resource
Lists of post steam UK rolling stock produced in N gauge. ''ngauge.org.uk''
N Gauge SocietyUK N Gauge news

2 mm scale