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English: A comparison of common British track gauges. Gauges shown are 1 ft 11.5 in (597mm), as used on the Ffestiniog Railway, 2 ft 3 in (686mm), as used on the Talyllyn Railway, 2 ft 6 in (762mm), as used on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, and standard gauge, 4 ft 8.5 in (1435mm).
Comparision of British track gauges. ... This diagram was created with an unknown SVG tool. ... This image is a derivative work of the following images: Rail gauge ...
See Narrow-gauge railways in Europe and Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark. Hjerl Hede museum (Frilandsmuseum) peat railway is preserved, 785 mm 2 ft 6 + 29 ⁄ 32 in and 791 mm 2 ft 7 + 5 ⁄ 32 in gauges are both used on this railway. [72] Germany Origin: 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 Prussian feet Bröl Valley Railway: Poland
The most common use of the term "track gauge" refers to the transverse distance between the inside surfaces of the two load-bearing rails of a railway track, usually measured at 12.7 millimetres (0.50 inches) to 15.9 millimetres (0.63 inches) below the top of the rail head in order to clear worn corners and allow for rail heads having sloping ...
Measuring rail gauge. During the early days of rail, there was considerable variation in the gauge used by different systems, and in the UK during the railway building boom of the 1840s Brunel's broad gauge of 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) was in competition with what was referred to at the time as the 'narrow' gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in).
Great Britain has (in general) the most restrictive loading gauge (relative to track gauge) in the world. That is a legacy of the British railway network being the world's oldest, and of having been built by a large number of different private companies, each with different standards for the width and height of trains.
In terms of model railway operation, gauge 3 is the largest (standard gauge) scenic railway modelling scale, using a scale of 13.5 mm to the foot. The Gauge '3' Society represents this aspect of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch gauge railway modelling with both electric and live steam operation. Gauge '3' corresponds to NEM II scale, also known as "Spur II" in ...
In narrow curves, long cars like this 26.4 m (86 ft 7 in) long express train car protrude further into the gauge than on a straight track. (180° curve near Königstein im Taunus ) A structure gauge , also called the minimum structure outline , is a diagram or physical structure that sets limits to the extent that bridges, tunnels and other ...