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4.864 m (15 ft 11.5 in) Bern, Canton of Ruthe 10 Fuss 2.932 m (9 ft 7.4 in) Braunschweig (Brunswick) Ruthe 16 Fuß 4.565 m (14 ft 11.7 in) Bremen Ruthe 8 Ellen or 16 Fuß 4.626 m (15 ft 2.1 in) Calenberg Ruthe 16 Fuß 4.677 m (15 ft 4.1 in) Cassel, Hessen Ruthe 14 Fuß 4.026 m (13 ft 2.5 in) Hamburg Geestruthe 16 Fuß
Metric prefixes; Text Symbol Factor or; yotta Y 10 24: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: zetta Z 10 21: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: exa E 10 18: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000: peta P 10 15: 1 000 000 000 000 000: tera T
750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 760 mm (2 ft 5 + 15 ⁄ 16 in) 1948–1949 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: Beregovo region network, around 200 km (120 mi); initially built during the Hungarian Empire and regauged when Ukraine became part of the Soviet Union. [20] 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 760 mm (2 ft 5 + 15 ⁄ 16 in)
Track gauge conversion is the changing of one railway track gauge (the distance between the running rails) to another. In general, requirements depend on whether the conversion is from a wider gauge to a narrower gauge or vice versa, on how the rail vehicles can be modified to accommodate a track gauge conversion, and on whether the gauge conversion is manual or automated.
The basic unit of length in the imperial and U.S. customary systems is the yard, defined as exactly 0.9144 m by international treaty in 1959. [2] [10] Common imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: [11] thou or mil (1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch) inch (25.4 mm) foot (12 inches, 0.3048 m) yard (3 feet, 0.9144 m)
Between 1961 and 1995, Australia had five bogie exchange centres, which opened and closed as gauge conversion work proceeded. The gauges served were 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in), though the 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) Queensland did acquire 100 bogie-exchange compatible QLX wagons just in case. All the wagons involved had ...
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Baden, in 1810, for example, redefined the Ruthe (rods) as being 3.0 m exactly and defined the subunits of the Ruthe as 1 Ruthe = 10 Fuß (feet) = 100 Zoll (inches) = 1,000 Linie (lines) = 10,000 Punkt (points) (for simplicity at the expense of grammar, these are the singular forms of each name) while the Pfund was defined as 500 g, divided ...