SGK-bahn
A Swiss rack & pinion railway that collects current from overhead wires and negotiates inclines using the rack and pinions.
The SGK-bahn is set in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland around the village of Saxeten. It is a metre gauge rack railway built to a scale of 5mm to one foot - very close to S scale. The railway has borrowed stock from the other mountain railways of the region, re-gauging from 800mm to 1 metre gauge as required. The model uses rack assistance to negotiate the steep inclines, and the catenary is fully working. All the stock is scratch-built, using either Fleischmann, Hornby or hand built chassis. The track is a mixture of hand built and proprietary.
This railway appeared in the January/February 1982 edition of 'Continental Modeller' and has undergone improvements since then.
Has been seen at:
Next outing:
None booked
Notes for Exhibition Managers:
Size - 12' x 6'
No. of Operators - 3
Power Points - 1
Other - To ensure safe clearances for the catenary, the layout should be against a wall, not in a central block.
The SGK-bahn is set in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland around the village of Saxeten. It is a metre gauge rack railway built to a scale of 5mm to one foot - very close to S scale. The railway has borrowed stock from the other mountain railways of the region, re-gauging from 800mm to 1 metre gauge as required. The model uses rack assistance to negotiate the steep inclines, and the catenary is fully working. All the stock is scratch-built, using either Fleischmann, Hornby or hand built chassis. The track is a mixture of hand built and proprietary.
This railway appeared in the January/February 1982 edition of 'Continental Modeller' and has undergone improvements since then.
- Almost S Scale
- Analogue
Has been seen at:
- Fareham - October 1980
- Basingstoke - October 1984
- Eurotrack - Southampton, 1988
- Fareham - October 2005
- Eurotrack, Eastleigh - February 2006
- Narrow Gauge South - Sparsholt, 2006
- Romsey - 1 & 2 March 2008
- Wickham - October 2008
- Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society - 22 March 2009
- Alton - February 2010
- Minstead - 13 June 2010
- Landford - 4 September 2010
- Minstead - 18 June 2011
- Christchurch - 15 & 16 October 2011
- Fareham Rotarail - 27 April 2013
- Bournemouth - 12 & 13 April 2014
- Totton - 12 July 2014
- Woking - 20 & 21 September 2014
- Bournemouth, February 2015
- Minstead - 27 June 2015
- Poole - November 2015
- Romsey - 5 & 6 March 2016
- Fordingbridge - 17 April 2016
Next outing:
None booked
Notes for Exhibition Managers:
Size - 12' x 6'
No. of Operators - 3
Power Points - 1
Other - To ensure safe clearances for the catenary, the layout should be against a wall, not in a central block.
Owner:
David Ward
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