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Engraved title page from the Dutch translation of Thomas Gage's The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, A new survey of the West-Indies (Amsterdam 1700) Thomas Gage (c. 1603 – 1656) [1] was an English Dominican friar, best known for his travel writing on New Spain and Central America during a sojourn there of over a decade. He ...
Narrower gauge railways usually cost less to build because they are usually lighter in construction, using smaller cars and locomotives (smaller loading gauge), as well as smaller bridges, smaller tunnels (smaller structure gauge). [27] Narrow gauge is thus often used in mountainous terrain, where the savings in civil engineering work can be ...
Traditionally, the gauge of the national railway in Spain, now managed by Adif, is 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 + 21 ⁄ 32 in), known as Iberian gauge.This gauge (originally 1,674mm but then reduced slightly to allow interoperability with Portugal) was decided upon by a Parliamentary committee, after a report known as the Informe Subercase (named for its principal author) in 1844. [1]
In 1999, a gauge-changer was installed at Tornio at the Finnish end of the dual-gauge section between Haparanda and Tornio, for use with variable gauge freight wagons. [45] The Tornio gauge changer is a Rafil design from Germany; a similar Talgo-RD gauge changer at the Haparanda end used to exist, but was removed [ 46 ] as it required de-icing ...
A broad gauge, it is the second-widest gauge in regular use anywhere in the world, with only Indian gauge railways, 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm), being wider (by 8 mm (5 ⁄ 16 in)). As finally established in 1955, [ 1 ] the Iberian gauge is a compromise between the similar, but slightly different, gauges adopted as respective national standards in ...
The history of rail transport in Spain begins in the 19th century. In 1848, a railway line between Barcelona and Mataró was inaugurated, [1] although a line in Cuba (then a Spanish overseas province) connecting Havana and Bejucal had already opened in 1837. [2] In 1852 the first narrow gauge line was built, in 1863 a line reached the ...
A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...
Loading gauge is generally wider than Europe, but with many exception standards. T: standard loading gauge T: 5,300 mm height, 3,750 mm width; T c: 5,200 mm height, 3,750 mm width: for tank and dumper cars; T pr: 5,300 mm height, 3,500 mm width: extra out-of-gauge cargo load for main tracks