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{{Sidebar track gauge}}[[File:Craignure Station.jpg|thumb|At Craignure station on the [[Isle of Mull Railway]]]]
'''Ten and a quarter inch gauge''' (or '''X scale''') ({{RailGauge|10.25in|disp=s}}) is a large [[scale model|modelling scale]], generally only used for [[ridable miniature railway]]s. [[Model railway]]s at this scale normally confine the scale modelling aspects to the reproduction of the [[locomotive]] and with steam locomotives the accompanying [[tender locomotive|tender]]. [[Rolling stock]] is generally made to carry passengers or maintenance equipment and is not to scale. There are also a number of railways which use this gauge of track but are [[narrow-gauge]] railways. Examples are [[Rudyard Lake Steam Railway]], [[Isle of Mull Railway]] and [[Wells and Walsingham Light Railway]].
An organisation to promote this gauge of railway has been reformed in May 2010 as The Ten and a Quarter Railway Society, which will also cover the larger {{RailGauge|12.25in}} and smaller {{RailGauge|9.5in}} gauges.
==Locomotives==
Generally model trains at this scale are individually hand-made, however between 1963 and 1964, [[Lines Bros Ltd]] using their combined Tri-ang and Minic brand names produced a commercial system under the name the Tri-ang Minic Narrowgauge Railway, or T.M.N.R.. Commercial companies also build bespoke locomotives or in the case of  the [[Exmoor Steam Railway]] a standard design of 2-4-2T.
==Rolling stock==
[[File:Rudyard Lake railway 1.JPG|thumb|[[Rudyard Lake Steam Railway]]]]
Rolling stock was normally supplied in the form of seaside coaches.
However the more growth in [[narrow-gauge]] style railways shows that fully enclosed coaches seating two adults side by side are possible and preferable for commercial railways.
==See also==
* [[Rail transport modelling scales]]
* [[Model railway scales]]
==External links==
{{Commons category|10¼ in gauge railways}}
*[http://www.rlsr.org/Waverley.htm History of a scale type atlantic locomotive built by David Curwen]
*[http://www.rlsr.org/Locomotives.htm Information on standard narrow-gauge style locomotives built by Exmoor Steam Railway]
*[http://www.tenquarter.org The Ten and a Quarter Railway Society website]
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