Re: U.S. Railroad Gauge

Posted by athol carr on February 07, 2008 at 04:34:24 from (193.206.66.82):

In Reply to: U.S. Railroad Gauge posted by TWJanak on February 05, 2008 at 17:05:33:

The first tramways from the mines in the North of England were built to 5 feet to the out side of the rails which were 2 inch wide flats on top of the wooden rails (i.e. 4 foot 8 to inside of the rails). When the first locomotive were built by Stephenson they were also to 4 foot 8 inch gauge, the same as the coal wagons that they were pulling. As later locomotives were fitted with 3 axles not 2 they had trouble getting the longer wheelbases around the corners and some of the gauges were eased to 4 foot 9 to give more clearance. To prevent confusion with the different gauges they later adopted a mean value 4 foot 8.5 inches.
Brunel built the Great Western Railway (England) to 7 foot guage, the Irish Broad Gauge was 5 foot 3 inches, the Welsh slate mines used 2 foot, the Norwegian Narrow Gauge was 3 foot 6 inches, later adopted by new Zealand, Ceylon, Japan and South Africa. Parts of Indai etc. use a metre gauge.

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