Re: Why one narrow guage versus another?
| June 30, 2018 01:10AM |
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James Wrote:
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>42 inch gauge also permitted a potential loading gauge roughly
> equivalent to what some of the 56.5 inch gauge
> lines were using anyway, allowing for the same
> potential loads to be hauled simply at a reduced
> maximum speed.
and elsewhere
Jim Marlett Wrote:
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> And the whole
> rail system is narrow gauge!
While we appear N.G. compared to the rest of the World yet we actually are S.G. since there no other wider gauge lines in the country to be found since Julius Vogel's days and there are no feeder lines attached of lesser gauge here either.
Here behind our N.G. DF and FM Guard's Van, just for a size comparison are ex-British Railways S.G. Carriages on 42" bogies.
A Wayne Duncan photo [flic.kr]
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>42 inch gauge also permitted a potential loading gauge roughly
> equivalent to what some of the 56.5 inch gauge
> lines were using anyway, allowing for the same
> potential loads to be hauled simply at a reduced
> maximum speed.
and elsewhere
Jim Marlett Wrote:
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> And the whole
> rail system is narrow gauge!
While we appear N.G. compared to the rest of the World yet we actually are S.G. since there no other wider gauge lines in the country to be found since Julius Vogel's days and there are no feeder lines attached of lesser gauge here either.
Here behind our N.G. DF and FM Guard's Van, just for a size comparison are ex-British Railways S.G. Carriages on 42" bogies.
A Wayne Duncan photo [flic.kr]
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