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narrow gauge

NOUN
  1. a railroad track (or its width) narrower than the standard 56.5 inches

How To Use narrow gauge In A Sentence

  • All day I struggled through translations with a pocket dictionary, and was rewarded by getting to know the trainmen and hearing them talk about their experiences in the narrow gauge past.
  • The narrow gauge railway, which opened more than ten years ago, was closed yesterday while an independent investigation is held. The Sun
  • It was taken to the blunger by wheelbarrow, or horse and cart, and more recently in bogies on a small narrow gauge railway by a pulley system linked to the steam engine.
  • To accommodate narrow gauge engines, three-rail track must turn into four-rail before reaching the turntable.
  • Most of the action seemed to consist of switching standard gauge box cars to and from the industrial sidings served by the narrow gauge.
  • The narrow gauge railway, which opened more than ten years ago, was closed yesterday while an independent investigation is held. The Sun
  • At first glance there appears to be a preponderance of narrow gauge or what I would call miniature railways.
  • The narrow gauge railway, which opened more than ten years ago, was closed yesterday while an independent investigation is held. The Sun
  • Construction of this narrow gauge line started in 1878, at the hight of the railway boom, in the hope to develop the pastoral and mining potential of the inland.
  • Over a great space of ground the sidings of the rail-head spread, the normal gauge rail-head spread out like a fan and interdigitated with the narrow gauge lines that go up practically to the guns. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war
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