FREMO - N Gauge Modules N-RE Guideline For Construction And Operation with Great-britN amendments Don't Panic! Table of Contents Remarks For The English Version of the N-RE Guidelines................................................................ 5 About Great-britN............................................................................................................................... 7 Preamble............................................................................................................................................ 9 Goals............................................................................................................................................. 9 Conventions................................................................................................................................... 9 General terms and conditions...................................................................................................... 10 References....................................................................................................................................... 11 Preliminary remark....................................................................................................................... 11 Further standards in FREMO....................................................................................................... 11 Other N-standards....................................................................................................................... 11 Related standards in FREMO...................................................................................................... 11 Tools of the N-domain.................................................................................................................. 11 Standards of European model railroading (NEM)........................................................................ 11 Foreign model railroading standards........................................................................................... 11 Web-pages of the fraction N-RE.................................................................................................. 12 Regulations of the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE)........................................................................................................................................... 12 Modules............................................................................................................................................ 13 In general..................................................................................................................................... 13 Introduction............................................................................................................................. 13 Types of modules.................................................................................................................... 13 Classification of Line Types..................................................................................................... 13 Frame.......................................................................................................................................... 14 Module end plates................................................................................................................... 14 Advices.................................................................................................................................... 16 Legs............................................................................................................................................. 16 Digest of FREMO-Leg-Lore.................................................................................................... 16 How many legs?...................................................................................................................... 17 Track / Radiuses.......................................................................................................................... 18 In general................................................................................................................................ 18 At the profile ends................................................................................................................... 19 Electric......................................................................................................................................... 20 At the module.......................................................................................................................... 20 At the profile ends................................................................................................................... 21 Scenery........................................................................................................................................ 22 Equipment.................................................................................................................................... 23 Vehicles............................................................................................................................................ 24 In general..................................................................................................................................... 24 Passenger cars............................................................................................................................ 25 Freight wagons / cars.................................................................................................................. 26 FOC......................................................................................................................................... 26 Locomotives................................................................................................................................. 28 Operation.......................................................................................................................................... 29 In general..................................................................................................................................... 29 Timetable..................................................................................................................................... 29 Freight system............................................................................................................................. 30 Defective vehicles........................................................................................................................ 30 Module maintenance................................................................................................................... 31 Meetings........................................................................................................................................... 32 Organisation................................................................................................................................ 32 Invitation.................................................................................................................................. 32 Registration............................................................................................................................. 32 FREMO N-RE and Great-britN Guidelines, 2012-10-14 3/42 Organisation............................................................................................................................ 32 Assembling.................................................................................................................................. 33 Annex A – Standardised module end profiles................................................................................... 34 F1: Flat single track profile, similarly to FREMO "N90"........................................................... 34 F2: Flat double track profile, similarly to FREMO "N90"......................................................... 35 H1: Slope single track profile.................................................................................................. 36 H2: Slope double track profile................................................................................................. 37 E1: Cutting single track profile................................................................................................ 38 E2: Cutting double track profile............................................................................................... 39 D1: Embankment single track profile...................................................................................... 40 D2: Embankment double track profile..................................................................................... 41 Annex B – Car cards for freight wagons (N-RE only)....................................................................... 42 Created: July 29, 2012 Updated: October 14, 2012 Author: Matthias Keil FREMO N-RE and Great-britN Guidelines, 2012-10-14 4/42 Remarks For The English Version of the N-RE Guidelines During the last years FREMO (Circle of Friends of European Railway Modellers) developed to a really European federation with many groups in several countries. FREMO conventions in Ger­ many have an international flair and German modellers travel to foreign countries for such conven­ tions. 2008 saw a large international convention for N-gauge, an anniversary for 20 years N-gauge, in