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	OO gauge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		OO gauge model railways are the most popular standard in the United Kingdom, being one of several 4 mm scale standards (4 mm to the foot (305 mm), or 1:76.2) in use, but the only one served by mass market manufacturers.
		OO uses 16.5 mm gauge track, which is inaccurate for 4 mm scale (it is accurate for HO scale).
		OO gauge was based on HO scale (3.5 mm:1 ft (305 mm)), and kept the same gauge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/OO_gauge (372 words)

	P4 gauge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		P4 gauge, also known as protofour, 4 mm finescale, and S4 is a model railway standard of 4 mm scale and accurate 18.83 mm gauge track.
		As the name implies, P4 gauge is accurately to scale for 4 mm scale modelling, while other track gauges (such as OO gauge and EM gauge) used for standard gauge prototypes are less accurate approximations.
		As well as a track gauge, P4 also specifies the exact wheel profile and track parameters to use, which are largely an exactly to scale version of real life standards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/P4_gauge (127 words)

	Encyclopedia: Model railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		OO or "Double-Oh", together with EM gauge and P4 standards are all to 4 mm scale as the scale is the same, but the track standards are incompatible.
		OO uses the same track as HO (16.5 mm gauge), which is not correct for this slightly larger scale, but it is the most common British standard for ready-to-run trains.
		EM gauge was an earlier attempt in the 1950s to improve the inaccuracies of OO gauge, with wider, more accurate track at 18 mm between the rails, but still narrower than the correct gauge.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Model-railway (4357 words)

	The history of OO gauge - Part One
		Gauge 1 had been in decline well before the war, and in March 1947, a proposal from Capt. W.R.Warrell led to the formation of the Gauge 1 Model Railway Association, in which remaining modellers in the scale banded together to ensure its survival.
		Gauge O was still overwhelmingly coarse scale and, to a large extent, clockwork: one of the Guild’s first major projects was to provide a supply of replacement springs for its members and even in the early Sixties, two rail electric layouts were a small minority in the scale.
		OO was no longer the smallest commercial scale available and the overwhelming dominance of 4mm scale and OO began to be eroded: within four years the Constructor survey was to show one modeller in eight working in 3mm.
	www.doubleogauge.com /history/History3.htm (5916 words)

	OO gauge -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		OO uses 16.5 mm gauge track, which is inaccurate for 4 mm scale (it is accurate for (A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds) HO scale).
		OO gauge was based on (Click link for more info and facts about HO scale) HO scale (3.5 mm:1 ft (305 mm)), and kept the same gauge.
		However, Trix decided to use a new standard of 3.5mm to the foot or 1:87, and this scale came to be known as ' (A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds) HO'.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/oo/oo_gauge1.htm (380 words)

	Rail transport modelling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This, EM gauge and P4 scale are all 4mm scale standards; the scale is the same, but the track standards are incompatible.
		OO uses the same track as HO, which is not correctly to scale, but it is the most common British standard for ready-to-run trains.
		EM gauge was an earlier improvement from OO gauge, with wider, more accurate track at 18mm between the rails, but still narrower than the correct gauge.
	www.peacelink.de /keyword/Model_railway.php (2233 words)

	BranchLine: FAQS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HO and OO gauge is 16.5mm between the rails.
		Scale is a different matter altogether, OO scale is 1/76th of true size or 76 times the model length equals one life size item.
		OO is actually undersize and strictly speaking should be 4.71 times 4mm equalling 18.84mm.
	www.branchline.com.au /faqs/index.php/command/list/categoryserial/3 (395 words)

	Scales and Gauges
		The 00 gauge was based on HO gauge, which used a scale of 3.5mm to the foot (1:87) but the motors were too big to fit inside the british prototype rolling stock, so the larger scale was developed, but without altering the track size.
		N gauge is based on a scale of 2mm to the foot using 9mm track.
		N gauge was initially seen as early as 1927, but did not appear in its present form until 1962.
	vmrc.tripod.com /scale.htm (545 words)

	The Gauge - Model Train Forum - Scale Railroad Discussion & Model Trains - 00 gauge
		OO is British HO gauge.The scale is larger but the track gauge is the same.
		The H0m is really the equivalent of the meter gauge lines (with some variations cca from 900 mm to 1200 mm) and uses the TT scale tracks (12 mm) with the same or different geometry.
		OO in Filipino means "Yes" and that's all I have to know about all this.
	www.the-gauge.com /showthread.php?t=9227 (1192 words)

	phorum - 'Bach Man' Message Board - OO scale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There are several track gauges in common use for the OO scale market ranging from 16.5mm to 19.1mm so always asked what the gauge is if you are not told.
		The best-known model railroad in OO scale was probably Cark Appel's Virginian and Ohio, which appeared a number of times in the hobby press in the 1950's and early '60's.
		Another attribute of the OO trains is that they tend to have the English 'hook-and-loop' connectors, which are not compatible with the American 'knuckle' couplers.
	www.bachmanntrains.com /home-usa/board/read.php?f=1&i=82277&t=82277 (4576 words)

	Stoneybridge teKno enginE, Model Engineering.
		OO gauge: Standard and Finescale 16.5mm gauge track compared.
		O gauge: Plans for a gravity shunt run round demonstration layout in 7mm scale.
		OO gauge: Re-Powering a Bachmann Class 03 Drewry diesel shunter.
	members.fortunecity.com /ozz_scott/ModEng.html (161 words)

	Articles - Rail transport modelling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the largest of these is in the Pendon Museum in Oxfordshire, UK, where an EM gauge(same scale as OO but with a more accurate track gauge) model of the Vale of the White Horse as it appeared in the 1930s is under construction.
		Engines powered by Live steam are often built in large, outdoor gauges, and are also readily available in G scale, 16mm scale and can be found in O and H0 scale.
		Gauge 1 has seen something of a remarkable revival in recent years after decades of near extinction commercially, with a growing number of smaller UK manufacturers offering electrically powered locomotive and rolling stock kits and parts for (mostly) indoor layout use.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Model_railway (3923 words)

	OO Scale SIG Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The American OO Gauge SIG was formed in the fall of 1985 and is dedicated to the preservation and advancement of American OO gauge, which has a scale of 4mm=1ft.
		And modern HO trucks are easily converted to OO (see The OO Road, October 1985 for one example, November 1992 for another creating a roller bearing truck from journal bearing OO trucks --complete with rotating roller bearings!).
		The reason is that in the 1920s and 1930s, when HO and OO were being developed, there was much confusion over scale and gauge.
	www.getnet.com /~dickg/nmra/sigs/AmericanOO/AmericanOO.html (1453 words)

	Trains.com - What was Q gauge? How about OO?
		OO Scale was 4 millimeter / foot versus HO scale of 3.85 millimeters per foot but, it ran on HO scale track.
		OO is common in the UK running on 16.5mm guage track.
		I suspect Q gauge had problems because it was difficult to push steam loco drivers in by 1/16" without running into the frames.
	www.trains.com /community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=33179 (520 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		OO Gauge is a popular scale of model railway.
		The actual track gauge is 16.5mm and the scale of the models is 4mm:1ft.
		Back in the early 1980s, a large OO gauge layout ran around the edges of the IDSME clubhouse.
	www.trainweb.org /idsme/idsme_model_railway.htm (457 words)

	UK modern image layouts
		OO Scale 4mm Modern image layout Hollybrook is a fictitious run around layout based on the railway era of the last five years it's a layout built on how I myself perceive the railway to be Hollybrook is very much a modern image urban setting
		My current project is to build a model of Godley Junction on the Woodhead route in N gauge during the late 70's to closure of the mainline in 1981.
		Dugglethorpe is a OO scale model railway layout based somewhere in the North East of England around the late 1970's.
	g.webring.com /hub?ring=ukmodernimagelay (1771 words)

	History of model railways
		Examples of early model trains in O gauge (rear), OO gauge (middle) and OOO gauge (front).
		Above: A selection of Hornby tinplate trains in O gauge and the smaller OO gauge.
		Half the size of the O gauge and running on 3-rail tin track with nickle-silver rail, these models were a big improvement over the detail found in their O gauge trains.
	www.hobbiesplus.com.au /history_of_model_railways.htm (573 words)

	Exhibition 2004
		Cherwell, is a scenic OO gauge, 26 feet 6inches by 10 feet 6 inches, four track mainline with an integral branch line.
		This is Ken's first Venture in Z gauge, which is a fictitious small town in the mountains in Germany, famous for it small chapel and Martyr's cross.
		The narrow gauge railway was originally built at the start of the 20th Century to serve the local slate quarries in the region, though timber, and increasingly passengers formed the mainstay of traffic.
	www.electriclemon.co.uk /smrc/exhibition04.html (1294 words)

	eBay - oo gauge, Model RR, Trains, Diecast, Toy Vehicles items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		OO gauge Hornby 5 tanker wagons Esso, Shell, Texaco
		OO gauge Hornby Lord of the Isles loco tender - spares
		OO gauge Hornby Lord of the Isles Loco and Tender
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=oo+gauge&newu=1&krd=1 (496 words)

	Hayle Model Railway Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The original 4 planned and constructed, with others who had joined, the "OO" gauge layout, much modified, that is still in use, but getting close to it`s "sell by date".
		A new "OO" gauge exhibition layout is under construction.
		Some time ago we purchaced some base boards with "N" gauge track, from that purchace, the clubs "Quarry Hill" layout has emerged, 24ft long, so full lenth trains are the order of the day.
	quicksitebuilder.cnet.com /rmrc/cornwallrailwaymodelerswebsite/id3.html (371 words)

	Model Railway Clubs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Club OO layout is called Soberton, a depiction of a Meon Valley Railway station had the line survived and flourished as was originally expected.
		The clubroom has a semi permanent OO layout which is being progressively developed with the current focus being on platforms and buildings, with a grand curved viaduct carrying the mainline from the station towards two seperate tunnels.
		There are new OO and N gauge exhibition layouts in the making, with several baseboards built, lots of track laying and wiring going on with other sectional and stand alone layout projects in various stages of planning, construction and development.
	www.semg.org.uk /model/clubs.html (1769 words)

	BRM - forum view messages
		Space is limited, so I thought that I was going to have trouble with a OO gauge, but then I got reading about N gauge and thought this may be suitable.
		Most of the developments have been in the OO Scale area - where there are two major players, Hornby and Bachmann for rtr locos and rolling stock, and two smaller players, Heljan and Dapol who are starting to make inroads into the current markets.
		The main thing that puts me off N gauge is that some of the rolling stock does look a little odd, by that i mean out of scale by one way or another, steam roller wheels and over scale looking track.
	www.brmodelling.com /forum/view.asp?postID=1913 (1878 words)

	Untitled Document
		Lionel OO gauge is 1:76 scale and very close in size to HO.
		At 5/8 inches wide (with a scale of 1:87), HO is exactly half the size of O gauge.
		This is the latest gauge from Europe, with a scale of 1:220.
	www.lionel.com /GettingStarted/Guides/MoreAboutGuage.cfm (192 words)

	Sunderland Exhibition 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Oxenholme — Blackburn ELMRS — 4mm ‘OO’ Gauge
		I have assumed that the original scheme was actually built, with the broad gauge line to Teign House being worked by the South Devon Railway, followed by the GWR after the amalgamation of the West Country railways in 1877.
		The layout is set in the last days of the broad gauge, circa 1887-1892, with the locomotives in their final forms and "convertible" wagons and coaches forming a fair proportion of the rolling stock, although some of the surviving genuine broad gauge stock can be seen.
	members.aol.com /JohnHargr/Exhib2005v3.htm (3699 words)

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		Williton - OO Gauge, 16 feet x 8 feet, country branch line station, based on Williton on the Minehead branch.
		Canalside - OO Gauge, 18 feet x 7 feet, Award winning freelance double track main line, with the emphasis on scenics.
		Titchfield - OO Gauge, 4 feet 6 inches x 1 foot 3 inches.
	members.lycos.co.uk /bdmrc/layouts/layouts.htm (372 words)

	Epsom & Ewell MRC: Layouts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ruxley (4mm 'OO' gauge) portrays GWR branch line operation during the 1930's.
		Shirebrook (4mm 'OO' gauge) has been constructed to replace the Clubs old layout Westhill, which has been sold and is now in private ownership.
		It is considered to be a entry point layout of double OO track gauge, constructed from ready to run materials, in particular, Peco code 75 track.
	www.trainweb.org /eemrc/layouts.htm (619 words)

	Gaugemaster - Bachmann, The Modeller’s Choice
		Bachmann produce models for OO Gauge (1:76 scale) in British outline.
		With many of their OO gauge locomotives now being produced as DCC ready, there is plenty available for those who wish to get started with Digital.
		Finally, there is Bachmann’s collection of accessories and spares for the rolling stock, as well as figures and now OO gauge track.
	www.gaugemaster.co.uk /bachmann.html (321 words)

	n gauge track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		N gauge track is 9mm wide and the scale is 1:160.
		N gauge track measures 30 inches in HO, hence the "30" in HOn30.
		Kato UniTrack N gauge track is probably the most widely used two-rail track with integral ballast for N gauge.
	www.1-in-modeltrains.com /75/n-gauge-track.html (467 words)

	Antics, Railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taking a typical passenger coach, in N gauge, the smallest models, the coach is about 150mm/6in long, useful for running long trains in modest spaces.
		O gauge model coaches are over 450mm/18in long, an imposing size useful for display models, but indoor layout options can be limited by space.
		Going into the garden we recommend using G gauge, where scale coaches would be almost 1 metre/3 feet long and these sturdy, robust models will withstand the rigours of outdoor railways.
	www.railway-models.co.uk (410 words)

	Chester Model Railway Club
		Some narrow gauge pictures added on that page and some of the Welsh Highland elsewhere.
		In all we have four layouts under construction (N, OO, O and OOn3) and so now is the time for newcomers to get involved.
		The main aim of our club is to bring people together of all ages, who have a common interest in modelling railways of various scales and gauges.
	www.chestermodelrailwayclub.com (780 words)

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