Teeing Off

Anyone who's ever seen a railway will appreciate the scale: simply massive. It's perhaps this impressive enormity of scale that attracts people to model railways. But that same scale, even when reduced to lilliputian-tinyness, still remains a bit too big to model anything but small chunks of real railway.

Enter "T gauge" in  the scale of "T". T-scale is 1:450 scale, compressing 450 metres of real railway into every 1 metre of your model railway. Put another way, you can get 3 times as much railway using T-gauge as you can using N-gauge.

With T-gauge it seems possible to model big landscapes or run realistically-long intercity trains like the one below and not have to create the necessary space by kicking-the-kids-out / losing-the-dining-room / divorcing-the-wife / etc.

T-gauge pencil-sized British HST courtesy of TGauge.co.uk

Which neatly brings us to the point of this blog. I've always fancied a model railway that models the trains I see: long thin formations snaking through cuttings and stretching over viaducts spanning deep valleys. And I'm going to attempt to do so in the scale of T. This blog will keep you posted on how I'm designing and building my T-gauge model railway.