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Getting started
First steps in HO: what HO is, how it differs from British OO, starter sets and choosing a railway to model.
- HO vs OO: what's the difference? HO and OO trains run on the same 16.5 mm track but are built to different scales. Here's why the UK ended up different, and what it means when you bu…
- How to choose an era (epoch) for your HO layout European HO models are labelled with an epoch, from I to VI. Picking one helps your trains, buildings and road vehicles look right together.
- How to choose your first HO train set A starter set is the simplest way into HO, but the choice you make now — 2-rail or 3-rail, analogue or digital — affects everything you buy later. Wo…
- Märklin 3-rail AC explained Märklin H0 trains use a centre-stud third rail rather than two powered rails. Here's how it works, what M, K and C track are, and how it differs from…