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The more universal profile 1-T has the complete body at a maximum width of 3,400 mm (11 ft 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 in) still rising to a height of 5,300 mm (17 ft 4 + 11 ⁄ 16 in). [55] Exceptions shall be double-stacking, maximum height shall be 6,150 mm (20 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) or 6,400 mm (20 ft 11 + 15 ⁄ 16 in).
825 mm: 2 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: England Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway (a vehicle that ran on two parallel 2 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (825 mm) gauge tracks, billed as 18 ft (5.5 m) gauge), Furzebrook Railway and Volk's Electric Railway: 838 mm 2 ft 9 in: Japan Nankai Railway (former gauge, converted to 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in gauge) England
Thus the 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) gauge became widespread and dominant in Britain. Robert was reported to have said that if he had had a second chance to choose a gauge, he would have chosen one wider than 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm). [18] [19] "I would take a few inches more, but a very few". [20]
The vast majority of North American railroads are standard gauge (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in / 1,435 mm).Exceptions include some streetcar, subway and rapid transit systems, mining and tunneling operations, and some narrow-gauge lines particularly in the west, e.g. the isolated White Pass and Yukon Route system, and the former Newfoundland Railway.
Correct scale/gauge typically used to model North American narrow gauge trains on 3 ft (914 mm) gauge track. Seven eighths: 7 ⁄ 8-inch-to-the-foot scale (1:13.7). Used to model trains on 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge track. 16 mm scale: 16 mm-to-the-foot (1:19.05). Originally intended for modelling 2-ft gauge prototype railways on 32 mm track ...
1.75 m – (5 feet 8 inches) – height of average U.S. male human as of 2002 (source: U.S. CDC as per female above) 2.4 m – wingspan of a mute swan; 2.5 m – height of a sunflower; 2.7 m – length of a leatherback sea turtle, the largest living turtle; 2.72 m – (8 feet 11 inches) – tallest-known human (Robert Wadlow) [31]
A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) used by standard-gauge railways.. Broad gauge of 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in), more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries (CIS states, Baltic states, Georgia, Ukraine) and Mongolia.
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 600 V Bucharest Light rail: 143 km 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 750 V Trams in Cluj-Napoca 11.7 km 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 750 V Trams in Craiova 16.7 km 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 600 V Voltage lowered from Romanian standard 750 V due to massive import of second hand German trams