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What does 'gauge' mean?

Is there a standard which all can understand?

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Chris Trice13/02/2018 03:09:41
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Posted by Leslie Eveson on 12/02/2018 19:13:06:

I was taught the width of railway lines was based on the width of Roman Chariot wheels, is this correct?

This was debunked by QI and Snopes. It's just not true.

Chris Trice13/02/2018 03:14:18
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Posted by Neil Wyatt on 12/02/2018 21:02:19:
Posted by Chris Trice on 12/02/2018 18:06:50:

Models of monorails have no gauge but they have a scale. An example of gauge versus scale is HO/OO. HO (half O ) has the same gauge track as the British OO but the scales are different. HO gauge have accurate proportions between the loco bodies and the track (1/87th scale). OO trains have bodies too big proportionally (1/76th) for the width of the track. This is because the UK manufacturers who embraced OO at its introduction after the war feared they couldn't source sufficiently small electric motors so they expanded the loco bodies instead.

Edited By Chris Trice on 12/02/2018 18:08:02

There's also EM, P4 and Scale4 which are all more or less OO to various levels of accuracy.

And my brother models in 00-9 which is narrow gauge to OO scale on N-gauge track >boggle<

Neil

Yes, my brother was MJT Scale Components. He used to produce white metal cast track shoes to make scale track along with brass etch kits. He also produced kits for teak coaches and components for the Nigel Gresley Society. He sold the business about ten years ago after twenty five years but it's still trading as MJT.

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