7 Car Coronation

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7 Car Coronation

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Can anyone help withy the length of the 7 car cornation, and more importantly in O gauge 7mm, I have a wall 9ft 4 to put the [long] shelf, and with Silver Fox leading....will it fit? or will I have to wait 'till I get it to work out the radius, to gt 2 ft round towards the window!
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Re: 7 Car Coronation

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silver fox wrote:Can anyone help withy the length of the 7 car cornation, and more importantly in O gauge 7mm, I have a wall 9ft 4 to put the [long] shelf, and with Silver Fox leading....will it fit?
The Coronation was 9 cars BTK/TK, TK/RTK, FK/FK, RTK/BTK, OBS. In all that comes to about 13' 6" in 7mm.
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Cheers, it was 7 though when built, then 8
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silver fox wrote:Cheers, it was 7 though when built, then 8
That was the Silver Jubilee. Which comes out at 10'8" in 7mm
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Which is what I asked in the first place, many thanks for that, I did try and work out me A4 in scale, and gave up and used a tape measure getting it to 50cm or 1ft7.11
I have tese odd scales, N is easy, you know the feet, x2 you have your scale!
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