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The Gauge '3' Society represents this aspect of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch gauge railway modelling with both electric and live steam operation. Gauge '3' corresponds to NEM II scale, also known as "Spur II" in Germany. The National 2.5 in Gauge Association continues to support live steam passenger hauling in 2.5-inch gauge using MES tracks.
Prince William Railway Company, Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr railway, converted to standard gauge. 825 mm: 2 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: England Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway (a vehicle that ran on two parallel 2 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (825 mm) gauge tracks, billed as 18 ft (5.5 m) gauge), Furzebrook Railway and Volk's Electric ...
2 gauge: 1:29: 50.4 mm or 45 mm The dominant scale used in the United States for models of "standard gauge" trains running on 45 mm (1.772 in) track, even though 1:32 is more prototypically correct. 1:29 represents standard gauge using 2 in (50.8 mm) gauge track, the original gauge 2. This fell into disuse as gauge 1 at 1.75 inch was very close.
IIm gauge LGB Train. Gauge 2 (also called 2 gauge or II gauge) is a model railway gauge, originally 64 mm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), [1] then standardised in 1909 at 2 in (50.8 mm), a 20% reduction and a change in definition: from mm to inch. [citation needed] It has since fallen into disuse. The gauge was introduced by Märklin at the Leipzig toy fair ...
The term HOn30 (and sometimes HOn2½) is generally used when modelling American prototypes while H0e is used for European prototypes. In Britain, the term OO9 is used. [1] All these terms refer to models of narrow-gauge railways built to the world's most popular model railway scale of HO (1:87) but using a track gauge of 9 mm (0.354 in)—the gauge used for N scale models of standard-gauge ...
The Airport Rail Link in Sydney had construction trains of 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) gauge, which were replaced by permanent tracks of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauge. During World War I, trench warfare led to a relatively static disposition of infantry, requiring considerable logistics to bring them support staff and supplies (food ...
The first railroads in Canada in the 1830s were built to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and in 1847 the first 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) gauge line was built. After a Royal Commission, in 1851 the broad gauge, called the Provincial gauge, was adopted by the Province of Canada government as the standard gauge. However, in the 1870s, most Canadian ...
The maximum height, width, and length of general Chinese rolling stock are 4,800 mm (15 ft 9 in), 3,400 mm (11 ft 2 in) and 26 m (85 ft 4 in) respectively, with an extra out-of-gauge load allowance of height and width 5,300 by 4,450 mm (17 ft 5 in by 14 ft 7 in) with some special shape limitation, corresponding to a structure gauge of 5,500 by ...