New to G Gauge based in Dorset.

[mcr22]

Hi John...let me know how much you would like for adapter track & I will send to you (PayPal)?
George

 

[Zerogee]

LGB made an adapter for code 332 to playmobil plastic track. These do show up on e bay.

10060 or 1006and this is a short yellow track.

https://www.trainworld.com/manufact...d-items/adapter-track-brass-to-plastic-10060/

I'm not sure that this item is meant to join brass track to the current style of Playmobil plastic where the roadbed is moulded onto the rails and sleepers.... I think that the plastic track that it refers to might be the old, brittle black plastic stuff that used to come with the very early LGB battery-loco toy sets.....?
However it MAY work with the Newqida plastic track, which may or may not be patterned on the old LGB plastic track anyway?
Would be worth checking before purchase.

Jon.

 

[mcr22]

Thanks Jon........I have the nwq plastic track so I think it would be a good option
George

 

[mcr22]

HI...I am right in thinking Gauge 1 is the same as G Gauge with regard to track measurements?

 

[tac foley]

Thanks PhiLP, very valid points!...dare i say i have been watching THAT channel 4 program.....steam on strange plastic track!!

Don't forget that -

a. That track had a rubber rail-top coating.

b. The loco had knurled drivers to get better grip.

tac

 

[tac foley]

HI...I am right in thinking Gauge 1 is the same as G Gauge with regard to track measurements?

The GAP between the rails is the same, but Gauge 1 track is a scale model of the standard 4' 8.5" rail. Rail height is measured in hundredths of an inch, and called 'code'. Much Gauge 1 track is Code 180. So-called G gauge track is modelled on narrow-gauge track and is far more robust, much measures .332", or Code 332. LGB and Piko comes to mind.

All my track is Tenmille so-called G scale track, and everything I have, from G1 to 7/8ths, runs on it without a problem, but then I don't have ANY points to cross.

tac
Ottawa Valley GRS

 

[mcr22]

Thanks for info....I am thinking of buying a gauge 1 steam loco to run on my g gauge track

 

[stockers]

Thanks for info....I am thinking of buying a gauge 1 steam loco to run on my g gauge track

It should run on the standard track - as Tac indicated, but the G scale point work might be too open in the frog area for gauge one to run reliably

 

[mcr22]

Ok, thanks Alan........I'll think about it a bit longer
George

 

[tac foley]

It really depends on which Gauge 1 loco you are thinking about - even the smallest, like the Accucraft B4, need 4ft radius track or bigger.

tac
G1MRA #3641

 

[mcr22]

I'm thinking of a very basis MSS steam loco to start with
George

 

[Paul M]

I'm thinking of a very basis MSS steam loco to start with
George

Not a bad move. As they are basic it's easier to learn the ropes as they say

 

[stockers]

I suggest you do a bit more research - the difference between most G1 locos and a MMS is huge. So is the cost. They will perform very differently.