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New lines and extensions to the MTR after 2014 use 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauge, including the South Island line, Kwun Tong line extension and West Island line. The Bucharest Metro uses 1,432 mm (4 ft 8 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge. The Washington Metro uses 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (1,429 mm), 1 ⁄ 4 in (6 mm) narrower than standard gauge.
This gauge is represented by the EM Society (in full, Eighteen Millimetre Society). 00 track (16.5 mm) is the wrong gauge for 1:76 scale, but use of an 18.2 mm (0.717 in) gauge track is accepted as the most popular compromise towards scale dimensions without having to make significant modifications to ready-to-run models. Has a track gauge ...
2 gauge: 1:29: 50.4 mm or 45 mm The dominant scale used in the United States for models of "standard gauge" trains running on 45 mm (1.772 in) track, even though 1:32 is more prototypically correct. 1:29 represents standard gauge using 2 in (50.8 mm) gauge track, the original gauge 2. This fell into disuse as gauge 1 at 1.75 inch was very close.
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.
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4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: See Category:Standard gauge railways: Standard gauge is defined both in metric and in imperial units. It is the most widely-used gauge worldwide, ab out 60% of the world uses this track. [92] 1,440 mm 4 ft 8 + 11 ⁄ 16 in: Switzerland
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.
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.