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The major scale here in the UK is still OO/HO for British prototypes that is : 4mm/1ft 1:76 scale models running on HO 16.5mm guage track. OO/HO equipment will therefore run fine on any HO layout but will be a bit overscale in comparison to HO equipment. This is a throwback to the 1930's when the small motors available were still just too large to fit into the smaller British locos. Finescale 4mm/ft modellers in the UK use either 18mm guage track (EM scale) or 18.83mm (Protofour / Scalefour). There is no real market for HO British outline models in the UK the major manufacturers are too committed to OO/HO. British HO modellers tend to model American (like me) or European prototypes. TT is 1:120 scale or 3mm/1ft running on 12mm guage track. There are a few die-hard British modellers who scratch- and kit-build models in this scale but the majority of models available are northern European, particularly German. I don't recall having ever seen any American prototypes in TT but I may well be wrong. If you're after unusual scales then check out some of the British narrow guage scales: 009 - (1:76 scale 4mm/1ft on 9mm track) representing 2ft to 2ft6in railways, OOn3 - (1:76 scale on 12mm guage track representing 3ft guage prototypes), HOm (1:87 scale on 12mm guage track giving meter guage prototypes) and finally the weirdest of the lot "5.5mm scale" - (its never been called anything else) 1:55 scale 5.5mm/1ft using 12mm or 16.5mm track for 2ft or 3ft guage respectively.
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