Garden Railway Forum

im looking at building a cheep basic garden railway [thats how it always starts!], planning just having a mss or mamod loco and few waggons.

This is a silly question, but they say they are 0 gauge, so will any 0 gauge track fit? there seems to be plenty vintage hornby 0 gaugestuff on ebay cheep compared tp mss site etc.

thanks!

While all O "gauge" is 32mm, the old cheap tinplate stuff is for toy trains. Folded steel rails, very tight curves, etc, good for old tinplate toy trains, not good for SM32 garden modelling.

Thanks

Where is the best place for track then?

The best thing to use is Peco's SM32 track in my opinion goes down well I've had no problems with mine, best place for that is Trackshak. It comes in at around 80 quid per 12 yards and £35 for a point.

If that's too much of a stretch on your budget O gauge peoco track will work fine for just Mamod stuff but its a know problem that some of the bigger stuffs flanges hit the chairs and bottoms out.

Likewise MSS track will work alright but its nearly as pricey as the SM32 stuff and has a tendency to brake at the clips.

Hope that helped

Thanks very much will go and have a look on there site and price stuff up, see how much i need for a loop around the grass!

Does the Peco stuff join to the mammod stuff ok? for example if i bought a mammod kit with track can i extend with Peco SM32?

Does the Peco stuff join to the mammod stuff ok? for example if i bought a mammod kit with track can i extend with Peco SM32?

Unfortunately not - well, not directly anyhow.
I'm sure that you could make up some kind of joint rather than not use any track you have to hand, whether the amount of effort you'd have to put in makes it worthwhile though I wouldn't know.

peco sm32 comes as flexitrack so you make the curves to the size you want but the wider the curve the better mamods like it. you can get fixed sm32 curves but they are a bit tight. If you do get peco track don't forget to buy the seperate fishplates.