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Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company (Newport and Pontypool Railway) 1,333 mm 4 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: England Belvoir Castle tramway [87] 1,350 mm 4 ft 5 + 5 ⁄ 32 in: Brazil Santos tramways (closed 1971) [88] and later Santos heritage tramways (1984–86 and 2000–present) [89] 1,372 mm 4 ft 6 in: See 4 ft 6 in gauge railway: 1,384 mm 4 ft 6 ...
Some amount of tolerance is necessarily allowed from the nominal gauge to allow for wear, etc.; this tolerance is typically greater for track limited to slower speeds, and tighter for track where higher speeds are expected (as an example, in the US the gauge is allowed to vary between 4 ft 8 in (1,420 mm) to 4 ft 10 in (1,470 mm) for track ...
Opening in 1825, the initial gauge of 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) was set to accommodate the existing gauge of hundreds of horse-drawn chaldron wagons [14] that were already in use on the wagonways in the mines. The railway used this gauge for 15 years before a change was made, debuting around 1850, to the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauge.
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The world's first operational mountain-climbing cog railway (rack-and-pinion railway), the Mount Washington Cog Railway in Coos County, New Hampshire — in operation since its opening in 1869 — uses a 4 ft 8 inch (1,422 mm) rail gauge, as designed by Sylvester Marsh, the creator of the Marsh rack system for ensuring firm traction going up ...
The Dodgers lost Game 4 of the 2020 World Series in incomprehensible fashion. The baseball world reacted accordingly.