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The Railway Regulation (Gauge) Act 1846 [1] (9 & 10 Vict. c. 57) or the Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846 or the Gauge of Railways Act 1846 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that was designed to standardise railway tracks.
Standard-gauge Rail Baltica railway is under construction and is scheduled to be completed by 2026. Cost studies have been undertaken for a potential overhaul of entire rail network to standard gauge. [41] Ethiopia: Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway; Addis Ababa Light Rail: 659 km (409 mi) Other standard gauge lines under construction. Finland
The United Kingdom Royal Commission on Railway Gauges was held in 1845 to choose between the 7 ft (2134 mm) broad gauge of the Great Western Railway and its associated companies and the so-called narrow gauge (now known as standard gauge) of 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1435 mm) that had been installed in most of the rest of the country. The situation ...
See Swedish three-foot–gauge railways. 900 mm: 2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in: See 900 mm gauge railways: 914 mm: 3 ft: See 3 ft gauge railways 3 ft gauge railways in the United Kingdom: 925 mm: 3 ft 13 ⁄ 32 in: Germany Trams in Chemnitz, since in 1914 943 mm: 3 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in: England Central Electricity Generating Board Fawley Tunnel [75] 946 ...
In Portugal, there are three railway loading gauge standards for conventional (iberian gauge) railways: Gabarito PT b, Gabarito PT b+ and Gabarito PT c. Gabarito PT b (also called CPb) and Gabarito PT b+ (also called CPb+) allow rail cars to be 3.44 m (11 ft 3.5 in) wide with a permitted height of 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in), although CPb+ has a ...
The Lagos–Kano Standard Gauge Railway is a gauge conversion project by the Nigerian Government to create a north–south standard gauge rail link. The first converted segment, between Abuja and Kaduna, was completed in July 2016.
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).
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.