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    With railways, a break of gauge occurs where a line of one track gauge (the distance between the rails, or between the wheels of trains designed to run...
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    In rail transport, track gauge is the distance between the two rails of a railway track. All vehicles on a rail network must have wheelsets that are compatible...
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  • Multi-gauge track is very often associated with a break-of-gauge station, where rail vehicles or vehicle contents are transferred from one gauge to another...
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  • up gauge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gauge (/ˈɡeɪdʒ/ GAYJ) may refer to: Gauge (instrument), any of a variety of measuring instruments Gauge (firearms)...
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    discussed the break of gauge problem in the United Kingdom, especially for defence. In 1847, South Australia adopted the 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in gauge as law. In 1848...
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    (VGA). The gauge is altered by driving the train through a gauge changer installed at the break of gauge which moves the wheels to the gauge desired. Variable...
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    track gauge of 5 ft (1,524 mm) first appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States. This gauge became commonly known as "Russian gauge", because...
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    railways will be standard-gauge, and existing narrow-gauge railways will be rehabilitated. The plan accounts for break of gauge issues and aims for a good...
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    railways used different gauges, and where track of different gauges met – a "gauge break" – loads had to be unloaded from one set of rail cars and reloaded...
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    In physics, a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian, and hence the dynamics of the system itself, does not change under local...
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    At a break-of-gauge, cargo is transloaded from boxcars or covered goods wagons on one track to wagons on another track of a different rail gauge, or else...
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    longstanding rumour that the Provincial gauge was selected specifically to create a break-of-gauge with US railways, the War of 1812 still being a fresh memory...
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    gauges were used in the United States. Some railways, primarily in the northeast, used standard gauge of 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm); others used gauges...
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  • London end of the route is located at the DB Eurohub in Barking, East London. Two breaks of gauge exist on the route: first from standard gauge in China...
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    restrictions Break-of-gauge: China, break-of-gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) North Korea, break-of-gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)...
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  • (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge, providing direct connections without break-of-gauge with the French railway system. The high speed line that was projected...
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    Empire from the Damascus to Medina. This 1,050 mm (3 ft 5+11⁄32 in) narrow gauge railway opened in 1908, but closed in 1920 due to the Arab Revolt. Modern...
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    standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in), more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries...
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    between colony capitals to not have a break-of-gauge. It was also the last of these to be converted to standard gauge in 1995. The rail network reached a...
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    Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) or 1 metre. Metre gauge is used...
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    functioned for decades as the transshipment point at the railway break-of-gauge. The broad gauge line was extended from Terowie to Peterborough in the 1970s...
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    narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge...
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  • each, carrying 108 loaded railroad cars) opened in 1978, bypasses a break of gauge. Later, the service was extended to include lines to Poti and Batumi...
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  • construction) Because the mainlines of different countries of different gauges rarely meet, except Kidatu, break of gauge is paradoxically not a problem at...
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    break of gauge station with the Hamley Bridge-Balaklava line being constructed as narrow gauge. The Peterborough line was constructed as broad gauge....
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  • built to transload shipping containers from train to train at the breaks of gauge.[citation needed] By 2001, four corridors had been studied: The Northern...
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    Rail transport in Poland (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from June 2023)
    with 15 kV AC and SE-C loading gauge (Voltage change 3 kV DC/15 kV AC on Polish side)[citation needed] Break of gauge – 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)/1,520 mm...
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    Alternately, the break of gauge may have been moved northwards to Owen Hamley Bridge ceased to be a break of gauge station in 1927 when narrow gauge lines as...
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    accordance with earlier decisions, the line is likely to be standard gauge, with break of gauge at Torghundi. In April 2018 it was decided by the Turkmen government...
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    earlier, a component of the Higgs field provides the order parameter breaking the electroweak gauge symmetry to the electromagnetic gauge symmetry. Like the...
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