I've been wanting to build a Market Garden Dio, probably something around the Wolfheze level crossing west of Arnhem. Can anyone give me an idea of what the railraod gauge was, or more specifically, what distance between rails (1/35th scale). Thanks!

Dub,

As the Campaign Leader of the (almost ending) Campaign "Remember Market Garden", I'm delighted to hear about your project. Be sure to share the pics with us !

The distance between our rails is 1,435 meter (measured from heart to heart of the rails). In 1/35'th scale that will be 4,1 centimeter = 1.6141 Inch.

Hope this helps.

Within a month I will visit that spot you're going to build. If you need some pics of the current situation, then let me know !

Be sure to keep us posted.

Hi Dub
The majority of Europe uses a gauge of 4'8½" which if I am correct works out at approximately 41mm.
HTH
Pete

Translating this into actual model railroad scale, this would correspond to GAUGE 1. Now, I may be wrong, but I believe that ALL European railroad gauges were standardised many years ago. The only difference was that the British system was slightly narrower, which I believe caused problems (which had to be surmounted) for the invasion of Europe in 1944. As I say, don't quote me on this....Jim

Hi,

Not all the railways track in Europe are similar.

Portugal and Spain have diferent gauge than french, german and others.

I think Russia (to be confirmed) also have diferent gauge then german trains.

Hi there
Portugal has 5'6" gauge railways,Russia has 5' gauge(hence the difference in track gauge in the 2 leopold kits),Switzerland has some Metre gauge track and I'm not sure about Spain.
HTH
Pete (++) (++)

These countries use, AFAIK the same gauge:

UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy. Norway uses the same gauge as well, but the the distance between two tracks is greater (so the cars are too wide to be used on Dutch railways for example).

Hello,

In America, you can use G Scale or also known as I Gauge by Marklin/LGB. In the USA, you can get bachman/LGB track at any hobby shop that sells the stuff. I have done a display base with 2 sections of Bachman track, grass and ballast. I used to 2 LGB flat cars. The only problem is, is that the cars are not in 1/35 scale, the track is just a little big. There is a company in the USA that makes 1/35 scale freight cars G scale, the only problem is that they are American prototype, not European. MTH may be the ones who produce the scale freight.

Thanks guys for your help! Danny, I'd sure appreciate any pics you could share after visiting Wolfheze. I do have a pic or two from Robert Kershaw's "It Never Snows in September". I'll post to my gallery a somewhat fuzzy pic of an Airbornes jeep at the famous Arnhem 6km marker. Again to all of you, thanks.

Dub