Just a general question.
Am I allowed to post about 1/87th Trams which have been fitted with KATO 9mm gauge motor bogies?
I'm interested! I think the Society is a broad church so I don't see why not.
No problem, post away :)
I can't think of many 750/760mm gauge trams in Real Life, most were Metre gauge and above. I appreciate Steve's are probably larger gauge ones regauged but can anyone link to some smaller gauge ones? I know of one in Slovakia but that's about it!
Lisbon trams are 900 mm (2 ft 11 7⁄16 in).
Yes, but that's virtually the same as metre gauge, which are very common just the imperial version, I should have said Metre/3ft gauge! I was thinking more of 2ft 6ins and metric equivalent (750/760mm) which would be 1/87 scale on 9mm gauge track?
This is the one I referred to, a genuine 760mm gauge roadside tram:
https://www.trencinregion.sk/en/64729/the-historic-tram-celebrates-110-years-of-regular-traffic
Would have loved to go on the Goulash cooking tram!
Excellent insight.
Steve
https://dorsetrailwaymodelling.blogspot.com/
There was a short but very picturesque 760mm gauge tramway at Ybbs An Der Donau in Austria; I've got a book about it somewhere. I seem to remember that it only had a couple of cars, both quite small, and ran from the main line railway station to the town centre.
Simon.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra%C3%9Fenbahn_Ybbs
Dubrovnik system was also 76 cm gauge. A few pictures online.
Peter
https://www.dubrovnik-travel.net/trams-dubrovnik/
A selection of photos of the conversions.
https://dorsetrailwaymodelling.blogspot.com/
The 4 wheel Kato under the Lisbon Tram.
https://dorsetrailwaymodelling.blogspot.com/
Definitely 'like', Steve. (Even better in real life!)
David.
If you want to do a British narrow gauge tramway then there is the Sutton and Alford which was 2' 6" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alford_and_Sutton_Tramway
Very nice, waiting to see Crich do something along those lines, put the SG tram loco back into steam!!
1884 to 1889| That was short lived wasn't it!
Not as short-lived as the 3'6" Skene & Echt Light Railway West of Aberdeen! Pity it never got off the ground but the "makers drawings" show a very handsome 0-6-0 or possibly 0-4-2 side tank loco with skirts and clerestory balcony end bogie coach.
I wish I could find the reference to the photos of it in this book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aberdeenshire-Tramways-Mike-Mitchell/dp/1445613824 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aberdeenshire-Tramways-Mike-Mitchell/dp/1445613824)