standard gauge

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  • standard gage (USA)

Noun

standard gauge (uncountable)

  1. (rail transport) A track gauge of 56.5 inches (1435 mm).
    • 1958 September, J. M. Dunn, “The Afonwen Line—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 594:
      The Carnarvonshire Railway was incorporated by an Act of July 29, 1862, with powers to construct a standard-gauge line from the Bangor & Carnarvon at Caernarvon [1958 spelling] to Portmadoc, a distance of 27¾ miles, but only the centre portion, from Penygroes to Afonwen, 11¾ miles, was built.
    • 1964, Norton S. Ginsburg, “CH’ANG-CH’UN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎[1], volume 5, →OCLC, page 267, column 2:
      The city began as a local trading centre for north Chinese settlers at the end of the 18th century. It expanded rapidly and from 1905 to 1935 was a major junction and transshipment point between the Russian-owned broad-gauge Chinese Eastern railway and the Japanese-owned standard-gague South Manchurian railway. Ch’ang-ch’un was equipped with sizable railroad shops and also became the junction for railways extending westward into Inner Mongolia and eastward into northern Korea.

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