Making inclines

This is how I did mine:

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Railway Build Phase One

Phase 1 for me was to get a railway laid that I could eventually run a real steam locomotive on, my initial space was a little limite...
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A word of warning, 1:50 is good, but anything over 1:25 is pushing the limit. Also gradients and curves do not make good bedfellows, as it is difficult to keep 4 point contact on large wheel base wagons.
 
Hi, I've got 1:16 gradients on mine which the (batterified) LGB and live steam cope with fine, but I take your point JimmyB about combining steep gradients and curves . . . it results in derailments. Of course, the only problem I have is if the track is damp.
 
I find that 1:40 about right, that is 1 inch for every 40 inch for you guys that use %’s that I fail to understand at all. Which makes things tricky for me when driving as we used to be 1in whatever and went over to percentages with no period of dual sineage so I now treat all gradients with a sign with extreme caution when driving much no doubt to the annoyance of other drivers.
 
I put this gradient list together a while ago but I've noticed my percentages don't agree with some of those published on-line. Is that maybe because they're using distance on the ground (slope) instead of horizontal distance?? Or is my maths up the creek!
 
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HobbitFertang said:
I put this gradient list together a while ago but I've noticed my percentages don't agree with some of those published on-line. Is that maybe because they're using distance on the ground (slope) instead of horizontal distance?? Or is my maths up the creek!View attachment 349148
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Surprised that Folkstone not in that lot, was one of the steeper ones in UK. Will stick to my 1in, in spite of that helpful table that will be forgotten by the time I have finished triping this.
 
The old Scarborough to Whitby line had a number of steep inclines, 1 in 41 northbound up to Ravenscar and 1 in 39 coming from Whitby to Ravenscar and 1 in 43 northbound out of Robin Hood's Bay.
 
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