N Gauge Wishlist Poll

[martyn]

The comment about RM not publishing an article that has been in the Journal is not correct. Both Lynford Junction and James Street had what was essentially the same arictle in the Journal before these went into RM, and more recently the other articles we did on the carriage and wagon stock on JS also did both.

Dave

BRM also had James St on front cover and main article in February 2020, with a dvd featuring Steve. But as I don't get BRM, nor, regularly, any modelling magazines, I can't comment on how often it features N gauge.

I was present at the photo shoot, and Steve and I got plenty of positive comments during this time from the photographer-whose name I can't remember.........

Martyn

[Chris Morris]

Apologies for going a bit off piste here.

From a quick survey I have just done, between October 2021 and now Model Rail and Railway Modeller jointly have the highest percentage of N gauge layouts with around 16% of all featured layouts being N gauge. RM appears to have an N gauge layout almost every month while half the Model Rail magazines also have an N gauge layout featured. Hornby Mag is behind with 12% of featured layouts being N while BRM has 10%. 9 out of the last 15 HMs had no N gauge featured layout while 10 of the last 15 BRMs didn't have one. I'm not saying any of this is good or bad, just what I found. I would imagine all the magazines try to include N gauge layouts where they can.

I would expect that the N gauge share of the market may well be around 15% to 20% compared to 00 so I can understand RMWeb putting effort into an 00 poll but not an N poll.

As a further aside and based on little bites of information I would like to suggest that N Gauge has had quite a good year. At this year's Exeter show an N gauge layout  (not mine) topped bot the visitor and exhibitor polls for favourite layout. There were a couple of excellent 4mm layouts at this show so that was quite an achievement. At Rail-Ex Taunton N gauge layouts came first and second in the public vote for best layout. This came as a surprise to me as "Hills of the North" was there and I would have expected that to win. In the RM Cup last year 2mm layouts came 2nd and 4th which is pretty good going. Finally my little N gauge layout came third in the HM layout of the year vote this year. I think all of this shows that N gauge is very popular with both exhibition visitors and magazine readers.

[Steven B]

Tom's poll works well. It'll be interesting to see the results. Expanding it to cover coaches, wagons and steam locos would be a labour of love!

I'd be interested to know what pent-up demand there is for more frequent re-runs of existing models. How many want a few more class 37 liveries or a maroon Mk1 SK for example.

Steven B

[martyn]

 

It wasn't the same article, though?

RM won't publish something that's been published elsewhere.

When we had the James Street and Lynford Junction articles published in 'Railway Modeller', I think that it was permitted that the article could have been published in a limited access specialist magazine, eg the Society 'Journal', but could not have been, in a similar form, in another trade-published magazine.

@Chris Morris

'James St' also won best in show by both public and members' votes at Loughborough (and also best scenery), and we had MANY compliments at both Stafford and Wigan, where I think no awards are made, along the lines of 'best layout here'.

So yes, N is appreciated, but not necessarily by some magazines and show organisers! I'm thinking of your comment about your own layout and Warley.

Martyn

[Bob G]

Tom's poll works well. It'll be interesting to see the results. Expanding it to cover coaches, wagons and steam locos would be a labour of love!

But a lot of the background work, i.e. the steam locos, coach and wagon types, has been done (by me and quite a few others) in 2018!
All you need now is example photographs.

Bob

[Bealman]

Thanks for the memory jog, @martyn .

That is quite correct. 

[Tank]

Have either been approached to assist in an N Gauge Wishliost poll??

Regards

Neal.

Nope, never heard a thing.

I'd certainly love us to have a poll on here again, but I just don't have the time myself.  I'd be happy for someone else, or a team to start one.

[TomE]

I'll be reaching out to people who I now know were/are involved in previous attempts to setup an N Gauge Poll in the new year regarding the steam poll. If work has been done and all I need to do is facilitate hosting it on NGN then all the better really!

Tom.

[Bob G]

I'll be reaching out to people who I now know were/are involved in previous attempts to setup an N Gauge Poll in the new year regarding the steam poll. If work has been done and all I need to do is facilitate hosting it on NGN then all the better really!

Tom.

Reach out. I'll be there. The Four Tops are coming!

[D9020 Nimbus]

Clearly the steam poll will take a lot more time to setup than the diesel/electric one as there are many more potential choices. One way of simplifying things would be to restrict it to locos and stock that have already been made, or announced, in OO or that have been made in N in the past; if a model hasn't been considered viable in OO it's unlikely it would be considered viable in N.

[Bob G]

Clearly the steam poll will take a lot more time to setup than the diesel/electric one as there are many more potential choices. One way of simplifying things would be to restrict it to locos and stock that have already been made, or announced, in OO or that have been made in N in the past; if a model hasn't been considered viable in OO it's unlikely it would be considered viable in N.

Not if the initial hard work has already been done