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Standard gauge. The standard gauge (also called the Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, or normal gauge) is a popular rail gauge. About 60% of the world's current railway lines use this gauge. The distance between the inside edges of the rails of standard gauge track is 1,435 mm ( 4 ft in ).
The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), international gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in East Africa. It is the most widely used track gauge around the world, with about 55% of the lines in the world using it.
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Rail gauge is the distance from the inside of one rail on a railroad track to the inside of the other. Most tracks use a standard gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft, 8 1/2 in). Wider gauges are called broad gauge (1676mm), smaller gauges are called narrow gauge (762mm or 610mm).
v. t. e. Rail gauge. General. Break-of-gauge • Dual gauge • Gauge conversion • List of rail gauges • Rail gauge by country. Broad gauge. Indian1,676 mm(5 ft 6 in) • Iberian1,668 mm(5 ft 5 21⁄32 in) • Irish1,600 mm(5 ft 3 in) • Russian • 1,520 mm(4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) Standard gauge.
Standard Gauge, also known as wide gauge, was an early model railway and toy train rail gauge, introduced in the United States in 1906 by Lionel Corporation. As it was a toy standard, rather than a scale modeling standard, the actual scale of Standard Gauge locomotives
Standard gauge trains are a type of railway system that features a track gauge of 4 feet 8.5 inches or 1,435 millimeters. This gauge is widely used around the world and is considered the standard for rail transportation.
