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standard gauge en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A track gauge of 56.5 inches (1435 mm).
   • The city began as a local trading centre for north Chinese settlers at the end of the 18th century. It expanded rapidly and from 1905 to 1935 was a major junction and transshipment point between the Russian-owned broad-gauge Chinese Eastern railway and the Japanese-owned standard-gauge South Manchurian railway. Ch’ang-ch’un was equipped with sizable railroad shops and also became the junction for railways extending westward into Inner Mongolia and eastward into northern Korea. 1964, Norton S. Ginsburg, “CH’ANG-CH’UN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 5, →OCLC, page 267, column 2:
   • The Carnarvonshire Railway was incorporated by an Act of July 29, 1862, with powers to construct a standard-gauge line from the Bangor & Carnarvon at Caernarvon [1958 spelling] to Portmadoc, a distance of 27¾ miles, but only the centre portion, from Penygroes to Afonwen, 11¾ miles, was built. 1958 September 14, J. M. Dunn, “The Afonwen Line—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 594:

Forms

Relateds

narrow gauge · metre gauge · broad gauge

Translations (10)

ja 標準軌 (track gauge) · cmn 準軌 /准轨 (track gauge) · nn normalspor (track gauge) · nb normalsporet (track gauge) · pl rozstaw normalny (track gauge) · de Normalspur (track gauge) · nb normalspor (track gauge) · cmn 標準軌 /标准轨 (track gauge) · ko 표준궤 (track gauge) · cs normální rozchod (track gauge)