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Meanings of standard gauge in English

Early model railway and toy train rail gauge.

Synonyms
Examples for "wide gauge"
Examples for "wide gauge"
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As we picked our way across, little narrow and big wide gauge engines and trains whistled and steamed about.
The Treasure-Train
Usage of standard gauge in English
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It was about three miles long, of nearly standard gauge, and substantially constructed.
Edison: His Life and Inventions
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Turkish firms are among those that have submitted bids for the standard gauge project.
Reuters
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A permanent standard gauge railroad was laid by the British Expeditionary Forces from Egypt into Palestine.
History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's...
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But broadening the Plug Mountain to standard gauge doesn't put us into Copah this summer, does it?
Empire Builders
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For more than a decade, his T-helper cells, the standard gauge of a responsive immune system, remained high.
The Guardian
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Well I think everyone else is sort of tied into the standard gauge railroad trains that we have today.
Wired
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The Beira line has a two-foot gauge, but is now (1899) being enlarged to the standard gauge.
Impressions of South Africa
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The new line will have a standard gauge, which is wider, and therefore faster and capable of carrying heavier loads.
The Guardian
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To meet demands which the existing French railways were unable to meet, 843 miles of standard gauge railway were constructed.
America's War for Humanity
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The enemy, too, imagined that our progress could not exceed the rate at which our standard gauge railway could be built.
How Jerusalem Was Won / Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign i...
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The Commonwealth has for some time been considering the conversion of the lines into one standard gauge, the British gauge of 4ft.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland
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Our car is adapted for service on any standard gauge road, so that we can travel in privacy throughout the United States.
The Harris-Ingram Experiment
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A simple improvement was the gradual adoption of a standard gauge-fourfeet eight and a half inches-whichreplaced the earlier lack of uniformity.
The United States Since the Civil War
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The standard gauge railway was still a long way from Ramleh, and the railway construction parties had to fight against bad weather and washouts.
How Jerusalem Was Won / Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign i...
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The newer railways followed the lead of the pioneer, and so it comes about that Ireland and the Argentine Republic have the same standard gauge.
Here, There and Everywhere
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It took a loan from China to build the $3.2 billion standard gauge railway (SGR), which started operations in 2017.
Reuters
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