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As mentioned in the Narrow Gauge page on this site, the name 009 refers to models built to 4mm/ft scale, or 1:76, and running on 9mm gauge track. This combination actually scales out to represent 2'3" gauge track, although it is generally used to represent any gauge between 2'0" and 2'6". Very little rolling stock is available off the shelf ready to run in this scale (but this is starting to change with one manafacturer planning to sell ready to run locomotives), although many people do use HOe rolling stock which is available but these represent rolling stock from mainland european outline and are built to a slightly smaller scale. All of my stock is either built from kits, adapted from standard gauge kits/bodies, or scratch built.

The 009 rolling stock which I am currently building falls roughly into two groups, in that they are being built to be run on 2 separate future layouts. All stock is however fully compatible, using the same type of DG couplers throughout (see below for more details), and subject to being run on a suitable radius I can run any mixture in the same train.

One of the planned layouts will be set in the north of England, and will use mainly shorter rolling stock and light locomotives, the other will be a freelance extension of the Lynton & Barnstaple and will use larger rolling stock. Neither of these layouts are yet started, so to date the stock is only run on the small shunting layout I am building (see the layouts section of the site), or on my test track.

Withing these pages the stock is not separated by the layout it is planned to run on, but rather by the type of vehicle, i.e. all the open wagons listed together.

As mentioned above I have retained compatabilty throughout all my 009 rolling stock (and indeed on all my HOn30 and O9 stock as well) by using the same DG couplers. These allow delayed magnetic uncoupling, using either an electromagnet or a permanent magnet which is hinged or slid away when not in use, and will also allow uncoupling to take place in a moving train when stock is being propelled. There are several similar types of coupler available that allow similar functionality, but one of my initial objective was to standardise on one, and having tried several the DG seems to do the job as good as any.