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unusual facts about Standard gauge



État 42-001 to 42-020

The last of the series were allocated to the St-Brieux depot and rented to the Société générale de chemins de fer et de transport automobile (CFTA) after Réseau Breton lines between Carhaix and Paimpol had been re-gauged from metre gauge to standard gauge.

Fowler's Ghost

The locomotive was sold to Isaac Watt Boulton in 1865; he intended to convert it into a standard engine, and commissioned drawings for a new conventional boiler and its conversion into standard gauge.

History of rail transport in Equatorial Guinea

The history of rail transport in Equatorial Guinea began in 1913, when a standard gauge railway was constructed from the capital of Equatorial Guinea, Santa Isabel, to the nearby villages of Banapa and Basupo.

Maua Abeid Daftari

As Deputy Minister she made a proposal to convert the gauge of Tanzania Railways Central line from narrow gauge to standard gauge.

Mecklenburg Spa Railway

The 10.3 kilometre long, standard gauge line from Rövershagen to Graal-Müritz was officially opened on 1 July 1925.

Moussaya

The town in on the route of a proposed 500km long heavy duty standard gauge railway taking iron ore to a new port at Matakong.

Palestine Railways H class

It inherited a standard gauge locomotive fleet from the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Sinai Railway dominated by two classes of 19th-century 0-6-0 requisitioned from railways in Britain: the LNWR 17in Coal Engines and LSWR 395 class.

Pinnaroo, South Australia

The railway is not currently available for transport between the states, as the line from Tailem Bend was converted to standard gauge soon after the main Adelaide–Melbourne line was converted, but the line to Ouyen remains as broad gauge.

Pressnitz Valley Railway

It used to climb from Wolkenstein on the standard gauge Flöha - Vejprty line (the Zschopau Valley Railway or Zschopautalbahn) through the valley of river Pressnitz (Czech: Přísečnice) to Jöhstadt on the border with Bohemia.

Sleeps Hill railway station

In 1995 the western track of the double broad gauge track was converted to standard gauge, and the eastern track was doubled to provide one of the four crossing points on the current Adelaide-Belair passenger service.

South Manchuria Railway

According to the agreement, Russian gauge tracks would continue from the "Russian" Kuancheng Station to the "Japanese" Changchun Station, and vice versa, tracks on the "gauge adapted by the South Manchuria Railway" (i.e., the standard gauge) would continue from the Changchun Station to the Kuancheng Station.

Tanzania Railways Limited

In 2007 Tanzania's Deputy Minister for Infrastructure Maua Abeid Daftari proposed gauge conversion to standard gauge.

Tatranská Lomnica railway station

It also forms the junction between that line and the standard gauge Poprad-Tatry–Tatranská Lomnica branch, which is a spur line from the Poprad-Tatry–Plaveč railway, another standard gauge branch line.

Tondu

In July 1863 Brogdens obtained an Act of Parliament to build a new standard gauge railway in the Ogmore Valley and to lay a third rail on the existing broad gauge Lynfi Railway to Porthcawl.

Wodonga railway station

The connection through to the standard gauge system across the Murray River to Albury was not completed for a few years, partly because the New South Wales standard gauge system had not yet extended as far south as Albury.

Yuxi–Mengzi Railway

When the Mengzi–Hekou Railway is completed, trains from Kunming, Yunnan's provincial capital, will be able to travel on standard gauge rail to Hekou, on the border with Vietnam.

Zagreb Commuter Rail

This link will be standard-gauge and tie in with normal Croatian Railways operations (the previous narrow-gauge line to Samobor was closed in 1979).


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Albion–Jacana railway line

The only passenger services using the line are the daily NSW TrainLink XPT on the standard gauge line, and occasional broad gauge V/Line services during disruptions of the main line though Essendon.

Amberley Museum Railway

The site had its own loco worked standard gauge railway, which connected with the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway at Amberley station.

Break-of-gauge

More rarely, standard gauge vehicles are carried over narrow gauge tracks using adaptor vehicles; examples include the Rollbocke transporter wagon arrangements in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic and the milk transporter wagons of the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway in England.

Broadmeadow railway station

The Australian Rail Track Corporation's Broadmeadow Centralised Traffic Control centre for the northern half of the state (including the standard gauge line to Acacia Ridge, Brisbane) is located just south of the station, as is RailCorp's Broadmeadow signal box which controls the area Broadmeadow to Eraring with a road overpass in between the two train control buildings and the station.

Căile Ferate Române

All are built for standard gauge (1435 mm) and run using a catenary wire at 50 Hz 25 kV AC.

Cogenhoe

Brand new equipment was used including a standard gauge steam locomotive made by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. which was kept in a brick engine shed on the side of the Hill, just west of Whiston village.

Commonwealth Railways CB class railcar

Following the extension of the standard gauge line from Port Augusta to Marree in 1957 and Whyalla, South Australia in 1972 the Budd cars began to operate to these destinations.

Commonwealth Railways NSU class

Federal Minister for Fuel, Shipping & Transport George McLeay, made recommendations to Cabinet in 1950, to upgrade the Commonwealth Railway's fleet of both narrow and standard gauge locomotives and rollingstock.

Still temporarily mounted on standard gauge bogies, on 12 June 1954 NSU51 was unveiled at Port Augusta with a pair of plates bearing the name of the then Federal Minister for Fuel, Shipping & Transport George McLeay.

Corris Railway

It appears that around this time the line was under the control of Thomas Savin, the contractor who built the standard gauge lines in the area.

Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad

There was a connection the standard gauge Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad at Port Allegany, and a Ramsey Car Transfer Apparatus was added there in 1883 so that lumber from mills on the line could be more easily loaded onto standard gauge cars.

Douglas Southern Electric Tramway

Douglas Southern Electric Tramway was a standard gauge tramway between the top of Douglas Head on the Isle of Man and the nearby resort of Port Soderick.

East Troy Electric Railroad

The railway itself is a standard gauge common carrier railroad that operates in interchange with Canadian National Railway (formerly a connection to Wisconsin Central Ltd.) This gives the East Troy electric railroad the ability to pick up and deliver freight (including fertilizer for the Farmers Co-op, sand for the local Ready-Mix, and lumber and steel tubing) to the village of East Troy.

Fukuoka Subway 3000 series

Unlike the 1000 series and 2000 series trains operated on the Kūkō Line and Hakozaki Line, the 3000 series trains are standard gauge (1,435 mm) and use linear motor propulsion.

Gauge Change Train

Mini-shinkansen, the concept of converting narrow-gauge lines to standard gauge or dual gauge for use by Shinkansen trains

Haarlem railway station

At great expense, the rail width was later reduced to 1.435 meters in order to conform to George Stephenson's standard gauge.

Hereford railway station

This would be a joint standard gauge/broad gauge station, sponsored jointly by the standard-gauge S&HR and the GWR-sponsored Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway.

Mount Barker Junction railway station

(Along the Adelaide–Melbourne line – broad gauge until 1995, converted to standard gauge in 1995)

PO Corrèze

From Tulle, north to Uzerche and a connection with the standard gauge PO (later SNCF) lines,

Railroad engineer

Bernard Holden (UK), President of the firstpreserved standard gauge railway

Railways of Jamaica: Linstead to New Works

The Linstead to New Works branch was a mere three miles of standard gauge track constructed in 1921 to serve a citrus growing region to the north east of Linstead.

RENFE Class 252

In 2010 four locomotives were modified for freight work on standard gauge lines from Barcelona to Le Soler (nr. Perpignan) in France.

Rosedale Abbey

The standard-gauge Rosedale Branch railway line ran round the head of the valley, serving mine workings on either side, and across the moors to reach what is now the Esk Valley Line at Battersby Junction.

Salamis Naval Base

A suburban standard gauge light railway line (Piraeus-Perama light railway) opened in 1936, connecting downtown Piraeus with Perama and terminating inside the Naval Base at Amphiali.

South Kensington – West Footscray railway line

The only passenger services using the line operate on the standard gauge, being the daily NSW TrainLink XPT, the Great Southern Railway operated The Overland and standard gauge Albury-Wodonga V/Line rail service.

Super Tokkyū

Gauge Change Train, an experimental train designed to operate on both narrow-gauge and standard-gauge routes

The Spooners of Porthmadog

Later engines were delivered on the newly opened Cambrian Railways to Minffordd where Spooner had laid out a pattern of exchange sidings that inspired many visitors from abroad to adopt narrow gauge as the inexpensive feeder line to the standard gauge.

Transports Publics Fribourgeois

Bulle is the centre of operations with depot, workshops and connection to the standard gauge railway to Romont, on the SBB line between Bern and Lausanne.

Uxbridge, Ontario railway station

In late 1880 the line was converted to standard gauge and soon after this, due to financial reasons, was sold to the Midland Railway in 1881.

Vevey railway station

The other centre platform, with tracks 6 (standard gauge) and 7 (metre gauge), which is in the western part of a small curve, usually serves only the MVR traffic to Blonay and Les Pléiades.

The station is also the western terminus of the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey-Chexbres to Puidoux-Chexbres on the Olten–Lausanne railway line, and a metre gauge line from Vevey to Blonay and Les Pléiades.

Victorian Railways N class

In 1923, in response to the recommendations made by the 1921 Royal Commission on the matter of uniform railway gauge, VR announced a policy that all new locomotive designs were to be capable of conversion from broad to standard gauge.

Wodonga railway station

Eventually the NSW system was extended southwards from its originating terminus in Sydney to Albury, but the terminals of the broad and standard gauge systems remained separated by the Murray River and a few miles of its surrounding swampy flatlands and billabongs.

In 1962 the standard gauge line was extended south from Wodonga to Melbourne and from that time onwards, most interstate haulage was on the standard gauge.

Yorkshire Museum of Farming

The museum lies on the trackbed of the Derwent Valley Light Railway - a privately owned standard-gauge railway which ran from Layerthorpe on the outskirts of York to Cliffe Common near Selby.