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Amritpal Singh

Amritpal is one among four Indians to go beyond the eight-metre mark; the others being T. C. Yohannan (in 1974), Sanjay Kumar Rai (in 2000).

Apsheronsky

Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway (Apsheronskaya railway), a narrow-gauge railway in Krasnodar Krai, Russia

Becky Lyne

Not selected for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in March due to a series of injuries, the Stockport-based athlete leapt to third in the UK all-time 800 metre rankings with 1 min 58.20 sec in the Norwich Union British Grand Prix in Gateshead in June 2006, finishing second behind Kenyan Commonwealth champion Janeth Jepkosgei.

Binz

Binz is also linked to the nearby towns of Putbus, Sellin, Baabe and Göhren by the narrow gauge steam railway the Rügensche Bäderbahn, known locally as Rasender Roland.

Christian Dornier

Christian Dornier (born c. 1958) is a French mass murderer, who shot to death his sister and mother and wounded his father with a 12-gauge double-barrelled shotgun at their farm on July 12, 1989, afterwards driving through the village of Luxiol and the adjacent area, shooting people at random.

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.

Cole Museum of Zoology

Specimens include a male Indian circus elephant skeleton, a 5 metre Reticulated Python skeleton containing 400 vertebrae, a fossil of the largest spider to ever have lived, and a False Killer Whale skeleton.

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.

Corinthian bronze

The Beautiful Gate (or Nicanor Gate) of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, mentioned in the Book of Acts 3:2–10, was a large, 18 metre (60 feet) wide structure said to be either solid, or covered in plates of, Corinthian brass.

Dick Shatto

His daughter, Cindy Shatto, competed in 3 Metres Springboard diving at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games and in Women's 10 metre platform diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Edgar Itt

Edgar Itt (born June 8, 1967, Gedern) was a West German athlete who competed for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Norbert Dobeleit, Jörg Vaihinger and Ralf Lübke.

Fairfield railway station, Melbourne

Fairfield Industrial Dog Object (FIDO), a 6-metre-tall wooden sculpture of a dog, is located adjacent to the eastern end of platform 2.

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.

Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway

During the Maharaja's reign, a large narrow-gauge railway network was set, which extended to Becharaji and many other places in Baroda State, with Dabhoi as its focal point.

Gauge fixing

In any non-Abelian gauge theory, any maximum Abelian gauge is an incomplete gauge which fixes the gauge freedom outside of the maximum Abelian subgroup.

Gembrook, Victoria

Soon after this time (between 1958 and 1962) the broad gauge line to Upper Ferntree Gully was extended to Belgrave which is less than 18 km away from Gembrook.

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.

INCAE Business School

Dean Baker sent three professors, George Cabot Lodge, Henry Arthur and Thomas Raymond, to gauge the level of support from the business community and society at large in each of the Central American countries for the project.

Istebna

Jerzy Kukuczka, high altitude mountaineer, and the second person to climb all of the 8,000 metre peaks

James Espir

His maternal grandfather Edward Smouha won the bronze medal as a member of the Great Britain team in the 4 x 100 metre relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Keilor, Victoria

Australian megafauna including 3 metre high kangaroos and Diprotodons were found in the area until extinction about 13,000 years ago at the end of the ice age.

Lansdowne Monument

The Lansdowne Monument, also known as Cherhill Monument, near Cherhill in Wiltshire is a 38 metre (125 foot) stone obelisk erected by Third Marquis of Lansdowne to the designs of Sir Charles Barry to commemorate his ancestor, Sir William Petty in 1845.

Lord's Bridge railway station

The long and level stretch of line, the nearest suitable abandoned line to Cambridge, was ideal for the Observatory's CLFST, AMI, One-Mile and Ryle rail-mounted radio-telescopes which move along a 4.8 km length of track of approximately 20 ft gauge.

Lugbara people

Famous and well known Lugbara include Dorcus Inzikuru, the 3000-metre steeple chase world champion in Helsinki 2005 and Jackson Asiku, the previous Commonwealth boxing light-weight champion.

Menora Tunnel

It is an 800-metre tunnel on the North-South Expressway Northern Route near Jelapang.

Mike Current

On Monday January 16, 2012, Current died after committing suicide by shooting himself in the head with a 20 gauge shotgun at the scenic outlook at Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge near Dallas, Oregon.

Mulji Jagmal Sawaria

In 1935, Rai Sahib Moolji Jagmal Savaria and Ranchhod Jagmal laid a private 1.9 miles long narrow gauge rail line connecting their Bilaspur railway site with their brick-kiln across Arpa River to Lingiyadih.

Musou

--*Musou Gauge, a gauge used in the Dynasty Warriors video games. Introduced in Dynasty Warriors 2, while the player character deals and receives damage, the gauge fills up. When the gauge is full, the player can press a button and perform a special attack specific to that player character. -->

Puffing Billy

Puffing Billy Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage tourist railway near Melbourne, Australia

Roe Green Park

In May 1929, two 25 metre high masts were erected, and the first international moving picture transmissions, from Berlin in Germany to England, were received here.

Rosenheim–Kufstein railway

Another narrow gauge line, the Wachtl Railway, still connects the cement plant near Kiefersfelden station with limestone quarries at Wachtl, just inside Austria in the municipality of Thiersee.

Royal Corinthian Yacht Club

Tiny Mitchell, Commodore of the Royal Corinthian in Burnham wanted to sail his 6 metre in the Solent and he bought the building from Rosa's estate, and set up the Southern branch.

Sai Sha Road

Therefore, bus companies usually adopt buses of shorter length, such as the 10.6-metre version of the Dennis Trident model, for the bus routes that pass through such portions of the Sai Sha Road.

Sesame Street: Old School

Among the most notable extra segments is one of James Earl Jones counting to 10 (which was actually created before production of the series officially began (it was a test film shown to children to gauge effectiveness of the format), and Jesse Jackson leading a group of children in reciting his poem, "I Am - Somebody".

Solar Pyramid

In 2002, it was announced that construction of the 40 metre high sculpture, designed by Richard Swain and Adam Walkden would be commenced at Poolsbrook, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

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.

Super Tokkyū

The service is proposed by GCTs using the Hakata to Shin-Tosu section of the Kyushu Shinkansen, then the narrow gauge line to Takeo Onsen, then the new West Kyushu Shinkansen line for the final section of the trip.

Surveyor Generals Corner

All of these boundaries meet at a single point, which is the easternmost point of the 127 metre section of the Western Australian border with the Northern Territory border which runs east-west along the 26th parallel south latitude to meet the western boundary of the South Australian border.

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.

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.

Timeline of three tallest structures in the world

The 1500-metre-tall Magnolia ETLP is excluded from the timeline because this offshore tension-leg oil platform is supported by the water, it is floating, and if the water were removed, the tension in its legs would most certainly cause it to buckle.

Toronto streetcar system

According to Steve Munro, an expert on the history of Toronto area transit, TTC gauge is "English carriage gauge".

UGL Rail PH37ACmai

In November 2011 UGL Rail announced it would develop a narrow gauge version of the GE PowerHaul locomotive.

Valentin Taifun

:Later production variant with a 17 metre wingspan and a Limbach flat-four engine or can be retrofitted with a Rotax 914, hydraulically operated landing gear, double panel Schempp-Hirth type airbrakes on the upper wing surface.

Vicinal

Vicinal tramway or Buurtspoor, a system of narrow gauge tramways or local railways in Belgium.

Vysílač Krašov

Vysílač Krašov (Krašov transmitter, Zapadni-Cechy transmitter) is a facility for TV-broadcasting in near Bezvěrov in Carlsbad Region, in Czech Republic with 347,5 metre tall guyed mast (former mast was 305 m tall).

Warsaw Railway Junction

In 1902 the broad gauge Warsaw–Kalisz Railway was constructed on the left bank of the Vistula river connecting Warsaw through Łódź to Kalisz and later extended to the border of the Prussian controlled Province of Posen.

Wesel transmitter

The FM and TV-mast Wesel is a 320.8 metre tall guyed steel framework radio mast of the Deutsche Telekom AG at Wesel-Büderich, Germany.

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.

Września Miasto railway station

Września Miasto (English: Września City) was a narrow-gauge railway stop in Września, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.


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CF Economiques Forestiers des Landes

When narrow gauge railways were first proposed in France, it was intended they could be constructed in either 750 mm and metre gauge, however pressure from the Military made metre gauge compulsory in 1888.

East Bengal Mail

In pre-independence days, there was a metre gauge line: Katihar - Radhikapur - Biral - Parbatipur - Tista - Geetaldaha - GolakganjFakiragram.

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.

Fakiragram railway station

In pre-independence days, there was a metre gauge line: Kathar - Radhikapur - Biral - Parbatipur - Tista - Gitaldaha - Golokganj – Fakiragram.

Gare de Montdidier

The station is located at kilometre point 100.155 on the partly abandoned single-track metre-gauge line between Saint-Just-en-Chaussée and Douai and at kilometre point 115.358 on the also partly abandoned line between Ormoy-Villers and Boves.

The station formerly also allowed connections to the metre-gauge lines in the Somme operated by the Société générale des chemins de fer économiques from Albert via Rosières and from Noyon via Roye-sur-Matz (Oise region).

Gulu

Rift Valley Railways funded clearing the line of vegetation and repairing structure, thus allowing the first commercial train for 20 years to run through on the metre gauge track from the Kenyan port Mombasa over Nairobi and Eldoret to Tororo and onwards to Gulu on September 14, 2013.

Kopanaki

It is situated on the main road from Pyrgos and Kyparissia to Kalamata and on the metre gauge railway from Kalo Nero to Zevgolateio.

Mogalhat railway station

In pre-independence days, a metre gauge line running via Radhikapur, Biral, Parbatipur, Tista, Gitaldaha and Golokganj connected Fakiragaram in Assam with Katihar in Bihar.

Monthey-Champéry-Morgins

The Monthey-Champéry-Morgins railway (MCM) was a railway company in the Chablais region of Switzerland which was formed to construct a metre gauge line linking Monthey with Champéry and a branch line from the village of d’Illiez to Morgins.

Transport in Jersey

A one-metre gauge line was laid down following the route of the former Jersey Railway from Saint Helier to La Corbière, with a branch line connecting the stone quarry at Ronez in Saint John.

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.