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Is it worthwhile adding a camber to curved track?
In real life, curved track sections often have cambers built into them to allow trains to traverse bends quicker without creating ware to rolling stock wheels or the outer rail.
Whether or not you add such cambers to your model railway comes down to personal preference. There is no practical advantage of installing one as the scaled-down speed of model trains is too slow to require assistance, and certainly, the weight of a real train doesn't get scaled down to their model equivalents.
Some modellers do choose to install cambers on bends but this is done purely for visual effect. If you are thinking of installing some cambers on your layout, you should first consider that the height of camber on a real railway usually falls below 150 mm and when scaled down prototypically will be hardly visible. That means you would have to elevate your track to a height that far exceeds the permitted real-life maximum and you risk derailments, so be careful how far you take it.
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