Hi Dave,
Very informative and quite a lot of hard work. I've been thinking about switching to dual-gauge track, so this was helpful.
Once you get going it isn't that bad. If you use flexi track like the Peco track we use except for the points (switches?) only add the third rail after it is laid as after it is fitted it is very difficult if not impossible to bend.
We had the ground level track dual gauge for some time. The raised level track is G45 not G1 as used on the ground and hadn't been made dual gauge because of the cost. We had only used it because it was second hand at a very reasonable price for 200 odd feet and a couple of points. A foreign member of the CMES visits once a year on the clubs rally. He over the years has donated quite a few vintage model/toy locomotives, it had been suggested to me that it would be a good idea to run them on our garden railway. However being '0' gauge with deep flanges they wouldn't run on our existing track stupidly I mention that if we made the G45 track dual gauge it would be possible not thinking to be told to go ahead, which is what happened. It cost nearly twice as much to add the third rail with new stock as it had to buy the track! Being philosophical I though at least it gives another track to run '0' gauge on. Our visiting member was delighted with the result and the clockwork locomotive I had made work. I was then asked , "Will you be making the others work as well?"
There are about 15 of them thankfully some of which need track power however the clockwork and steam ones............
I have until next June this is the next to see if it can be made to work
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I don't know what it is. He brought four more this year thankfully three are rolling stock.
Take care.
Tony.
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