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(5 ft 3 / 4 ft 8 1 / 2 / 3 ft 6 in). Three-rail dual-gauge track is joined by four-rail triple-gauge. [k] 1600 / 1435 / 1067mm (5 ft 3 / 4 ft 8 1 / 2 in / 3 ft 6 in). Standard-gauge car on 4-rail triple-gauge track. Narrow gauge track is two central rails; broad gauge is far left rail and second from right. [l] 1600 / 1435 / 1067 mm
Belgium portal; Pages in category "Standard gauge railways in Belgium" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
High rails on a model railway layout at the Convention of American Railroadfans in Switzerland, 2006. High rail (also called "hi-rail" and "hirail") is a phrase used in model railroading in North America, mostly in O scale and S scale, to describe a "compromise" form of modelling that strives for realism while accepting the compromises in scale associated with toy train equipment.
Belgium operates a policy of cheap rail travel. [citation needed] Citizens in Belgium, especially students and older citizens, are offered incentives and cheaper fares in order to alleviate congestion on the nation's roads. Public sector employees are entitled to a free or heavily subsidised season ticket for commuting by rail.
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 ...
Rail Baltica is an EU-funded project to provide a standard gauge rail link in and through the Baltic countries, potentially connecting to a Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel. While attempts to unify the divergent standards date back to at least the 1880s with the Conférence internationale pour l'unité technique des chemins de fer (lit.
O scale (or O gauge) is a scale commonly used for toy trains and rail transport modelling.Introduced by German toy manufacturer Märklin around 1900, by the 1930s three-rail alternating current O gauge was the most common model railroad scale in the United States and remained so until the early 1960s.
A Belgian State Railways Type 51 in restored livery at Train World (Brussels). The Belgian State Railways (Dutch: Belgische Staatsspoorwegen [ˈbɛlɣisə ˈstaːtspoːrˌʋeːɣə(n)]; French: Chemins de fer de l'État Belge [ʃəmɛ̃ də fɛʁ də leta bɛlʒ]) was the original state-owned railway of Belgium.