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Iran, with its standard-gauge rail system, has a break of gauge with 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) gauge at the borders with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, and also with Pakistan's 5 ft 6 in gauge railway at Zahedan. The break-of-gauge station at Zahedan was built outside the city, as the existing station was hemmed in by built-up areas. [22]
The Portland Company was formed to build locomotives of this gauge for use on the local rail system. [3] The gauge was known as "Texas gauge" while required by Texas law until 1875, [4] and used by the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad (NOO&GW) until 1872, and by the Texas and New Orleans Railroad until 1876. The New England ...
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft ... and where track of different gauges met – a "gauge break" ...
Cross-section of 4-rail dual-gauge track (standard and metre gauge/ narrow gauge) (click to enlarge) Cross-section of Australian dual-gauge track – 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) and 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauges (click to enlarge) Mixed gauge track at Sassari, Sardinia: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge and 950 mm (3 ft 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in)
See Swedish three-foot–gauge railways. 900 mm: 2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in: See 900 mm gauge railways: 914 mm: 3 ft: See 3 ft gauge railways 3 ft gauge railways in the United Kingdom: 925 mm: 3 ft 13 ⁄ 32 in: Germany Trams in Chemnitz, since in 1914 943 mm: 3 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in: England Central Electricity Generating Board Fawley Tunnel [75] 946 ...
The accepted practice was to couple standard gauge cars immediately behind the engine, ahead of any narrow gauge cars in the train. [20] The Virginia Midland Railway and the Richmond and Danville Railroad installed two Nutter car hoists in north Danville, Virginia in 1882 to deal with the break of gauge between those lines. [27]
Track layout diagram of Terowie break-of-gauge station (South Australian Railways), 1913. In 1922, 273 inventions to solve the break-of-gauge had been proposed, and none adopted. [33] In 1933, as many as 140 devices were proposed by inventors to solve the break-of-gauge problem, none of which was adopted. [34]
As part of the conversion of the Port Augusta to Broken Hill line to standard gauge, the line north of Terowie to Peterborough was converted to broad gauge on 12 January 1970, thus making Peterborough the break of gauge point. [1] [4] The station closed for regular passenger use on 13 December 1986.