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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 ...
Thus the scale and approximate prototype gauge are represented, with the model gauge used (9 mm for H0e gauge; 6.5 mm for H0f gauge) being implied. [ 2 ] The scales used include the general European modelling range of Z, N, TT, H0, 0 and also the large model engineering gauges of I to X, including 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 , 5, 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 and 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 ...
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.
Like the intermediate EM gauge standard in 4 mm scale, some modellers in 3 mm scale developed 13.5 mm (0.531 in) track gauge, but this has largely been superseded by 14.2 mm (0.559 in) gauge. Both 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow gauge (using 9 mm / 0.354 in gauge track) and 5 ft 3 in ( 1,600 mm ) broad gauge (using 15.75 mm / 0.620 in gauge track) are ...
The first railroads in Canada in the 1830s were built to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and in 1847 the first 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) gauge line was built. After a Royal Commission, in 1851 the broad gauge, called the Provincial gauge , was adopted by the Province of Canada government as the standard gauge.
2 ft 5 in: England: St. Michael's Mount Tramway [68] 740 mm: 2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 8 in: Luxembourg: Minière et Métallurgique de Rodange mine railway [69] 750 mm: 2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: See 750 mm gauge railways: 760 mm: 2 ft 5 + 15 ⁄ 16 in: Bulgaria: Origin: 1 ⁄ 2 Austrian fathom See Bosnian gauge. Septemvri - Dobriniste narrow railway. 762 mm: 2 ...
At present [when?] the choice of gauge is limited to two out of three of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and broad gauges 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) and 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in). With narrow gauges such as 1,000 mm ( 3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in ) as found at Zweisimmen , Switzerland, there is less room between the wheels for the gauge change ...
The TSI Rolling Stock (2002/735/EC) has taken over the UIC Gauges definitions defining Kinematic Gauges with a reference profile such that Gauges GA and GB have a height of 4.35 m (14 ft 3 in) (they differ in shape) with Gauge GC rising to 4.70 m (15 ft 5 in) allowing for a width of 3.08 m (10 ft 1 in) of the flat roof. [7]