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broad-
gauge railway is a
railway with a
track gauge (the
distance between the rails)
broader than the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) used by standard-
gauge...
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standard gauge.
Britain polarised into two areas:
those that used
broad gauge and
those that used
standard gauge. In this context,
standard gauge was referred...
- 5 ft 6 in / 1,676 mm is a
broad track gauge, used in India, ****stan,
western Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Chile, and on BART in the San Francisco...
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Russian gauge (1,520 mm) and
broad gauge 1,524 mm.
These gauges cannot make 3-rail dual
gauge with
Russian gauge. 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Indian gauge 1,668 mm...
- 403 mi) of narrow-
gauge railways, 18,007
kilometres (11,189 mi) of
standard gauge railways and 2,685
kilometres (1,668 mi) of
broad gauge railways. In the...
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Railways with a
track gauge of 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) fall
within the
category of
broad gauge railways. As of 2022[update], they were
extant in Australia...
- standard- or
broad-
gauge line. Narrow-
gauge railways have
specialised use in
mines and
other environments where a
small structure gauge necessitates a...
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advocated the use of 3 ft 6 in
gauge in his book
Railways Or No Railways:
Narrow Gauge,
Economy with
Efficiency v.
Broad Gauge,
Costliness with Extravagance...
- With railways, a
break of
gauge occurs where a line of one
track gauge (the
distance between the rails, or
between the
wheels of
trains designed to run...
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vehicles on the two
gauges: typically, one
broad-
gauge trainload needs three narrow-
gauge trains to carry.
Constructing dual-
gauge track with
three rails...
