Sunday, 8 February 2026

British Finescale Track - Part 1

British Finescale N Gauge Track - A5 Turnout

I recently built an A5 turnout using one of the British Finescale kits. As well as the turnout kit, I also ordered some flex track, rail joiners and a jig for constructing lengths of straight track. I previously ordered the introductory kit for 2mm FS (some code 40 track and a kit to build a 16t mineral wagon along with a book all about the scale) but found that the track was easy to distory and hard to keep straight. After coming to the decision that 2mm was a step too far for my skills and interests, I still wanted to try out building my own track, albeit using one of these kits.
 
Below are some pictures taken during construction of the turnout -
 





If I was doing it again, I'd take more care cutting the lengths of rail - particularly around the frog area as I didn't get these quite right which resulted in them coming free/moving later on, particularly when adding the soldered dropper wires.

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