Plarail Line 0 Inside Curved Track

There's some older smaller radius curves but they are all 90° as far as I know, there are some in a few Merry-Go sets and a few variations of a western themed set with small curves.


More recently, the Thomas and Bertie rainbow bridge set has some different small radius 90°s, and the crossover switch can be used as a tight 90° curve - I believe ucwepn did this before.



There is a Thomas themed viaduct that makes a 90° angle but is made up of four parts, you can pull the tops off and have (wider then usual) 1/2 curves. I'm bidding on a lot that contains then right now to check them out, amongst wanting a few other things in the lot.


The first version of the carry along Thomas map set has a bit of mountain that is a non standard angle off of normal, I'm not sure if it is exactly a half curve or not, but I purchased one on the Japanese auctions so I'll know soon enough.


I have long suspected that the old red turntable with the slot for the overhead gantry gives you "illegal" off angles as well, which is why they made the later Thomas version with the diamond connectors, but I'm not entirely sure.


There are also, if anyone is interested, 1/2 curve road pieces (so same as standard Plarail curves instead of the 90° road pieces) in a few of the side by side road and rail sets, I've seen them in green and grey.


And not to change the subject, but I have a question about the other wider radius curves. I've only seen these in one early Thomas set, which I've now picked up three examples of to have a number of the curves. Were these available in other normal Plarail sets? I must confess the majority of my Plarail knowledge is about the Thomas range. The radius is not enough to make a third loop around the wider double track, but it is slightly wider then the outer double track. I don't have a picture of the rails on top of one another (I'll grab one when I go home tomorrow) although I have done it before when I got the set to see the differences. You can see that the close half of the set is double rail width apart (it includes the manual switch from the old R15 set on the close side) but it is wider in the back.