How it is measured within rails or outside rails or center of rails.
2006-08-06 22:00:57 · 5 answers · asked by RAJ 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Rail
There is a fairly common gage when speaking of broad gage, which is five feet, though, as rightly pointed out above, the range can be greater.
2006-08-07 09:22:08 · answer #1 · answered by Samurai Hoghead 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gauge is the Distance between the inside face of the rails, Broad gauges arre any wider than Standard, ranging from just over 7ft
(Brunel's Broad Guage) to barely over standard (4'8 1/2").
Conversely narrow guage includes all gauges narrower than standard. The wikipedia site below gives a non-exhaustive range of Broad Gauges used.
2006-08-07 11:52:33 · answer #2 · answered by Stephen Allcroft 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Broad Gauge in India is 1676 mm. This gauge is used too in Argentina, Bangladesh, Chile, Iran (one line) and Pakistan.
There are other gauges that qualify as "broad": 1524 mm is used in Russia and other USSR former countries, Finland, Mongolia, some sections of border lines in China, two branches into Afghanistan and one line each in Poland, Romania and Slovak Republic. 1600 mm gauge is used in Australia and Brazil. The gauge is measured from the inside border of the railheads.
2006-08-10 07:08:44 · answer #3 · answered by tgva325 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The largest, indoor gage model trains is G used by LBG, about 3 1/2 inch. O gage r-rail is by Lionel, HO is two rail, maybe 3 or 4 inches wide (2 rail), N gage is still narrower, the smallest gage.
2006-08-07 05:12:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
For broad gauge rly track in India- It is 1.72 mts measured inner side to inner side of both the tracks, off course the distance measured is always between inner sides.
well rest u can chk on the site given for the world wide
2006-08-08 01:00:05 · answer #5 · answered by Ashish B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋