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5 ft 3 in gauge railways

Index 5 ft 3 in gauge railways

Railways with track gauge of are broad gauge railways, currently in use in Australia, Brazil, Ireland and Northern Ireland. [1]

47 relations: Albury railway station, Axle load, Board of Trade, Brazilian National Standards Organization, Broad-gauge railway, Canterbury Provincial Railways, Colonial Times, Deloraine, Tasmania, Diolkos, Double-track railway, Downpatrick and County Down Railway, Grade (slope), Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway, GSR Class 800, Heritage railway, Isthmus of Corinth, Launceston, Tasmania, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, Metre-gauge railway, Minas Gerais, New South Wales, New South Wales D57 class locomotive, NI Railways, North East railway line, Oaklands railway line, Victoria, Pará, PDF, Percent sign, Rail gauge in Australia, Railway Regulation (Gauge) Act 1846, Rio de Janeiro (state), São Paulo (state), Seymour railway station, South Australia, Standard-gauge railway, Swiss Northern Railway, Tasmania, Track gauge, Track gauge conversion, Track gauge in Ireland, Tractive force, Victoria (Australia), Victorian Railways H class, 3 ft gauge railways.

Albury railway station

The Albury railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at Railway Place, Albury, City of Albury, New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the border with Victoria, in Australia.

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Axle load

The axle load of a wheeled vehicle is the total weight felt by the roadway for all wheels connected to a given axle.

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Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a British government department concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade.

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Brazilian National Standards Organization

The Brazilian Association of Technical Standards, usually rendered in portuguese as Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT) is a private non-profit organization and the normative body which is responsible for technical standards in Brazil, and intends to promote technological development in the country.

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Broad-gauge railway

A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.

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Canterbury Provincial Railways

The Canterbury Provincial Railways were an early part of the railways of New Zealand.

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Colonial Times

The Colonial Times was a newspaper in Tasmania, Australia.

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Deloraine, Tasmania

Deloraine is a town on the Meander River, in the central north of Tasmania, Australia.

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Diolkos

The Diolkos (Δίολκος, from the Greek διά, dia "across" and ὁλκός, holkos "portage machine") was a paved trackway near Corinth in Ancient Greece which enabled boats to be moved overland across the Isthmus of Corinth.

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Double-track railway

A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track.

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Downpatrick and County Down Railway

The Downpatrick & County Down Railway is a heritage railway in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Grade (slope)

The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.

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Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway

The Grand Duchy of Baden was an independent state in what is now southwestern Germany until the creation of the German Empire in 1871.

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GSR Class 800

The Great Southern Railways Class 800 steam locomotives were built principally for express passenger work on the Dublin to Cork main line of that company.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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Isthmus of Corinth

The Isthmus of Corinth is the narrow land bridge which connects the Peloponnese peninsula with the rest of the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth.

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Launceston, Tasmania

Launceston is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River (Kanamaluka).

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Maranhão

Maranhão is a northeastern state of Brazil.

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Mato Grosso

Mato Grosso (– lit. "Thick Bushes") is one of the states of Brazil, the third-largest by area, located in the western part of the country.

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Mato Grosso do Sul

Mato Grosso do Sul is one of the Midwestern states of Brazil.

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Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company

The Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company was a railway company in Victoria, Australia.

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Metre-gauge railway

Metre-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.

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Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New South Wales D57 class locomotive

The D57 class was a class of 4-8-2 steam locomotives built by Clyde Engineering for the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia.

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NI Railways

NI Railways, also known as Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) and for a brief period Ulster Transport Railways (UTR), is the railway operator in Northern Ireland.

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North East railway line

The North East railway is in the north-east of Victoria, Australia.

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Oaklands railway line, Victoria

The Oaklands railway line is a freight only railway line in north eastern Victoria, Australia.

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Pará

Pará is a state in northern Brazil traversed by the lower Amazon River.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Percent sign

The percent (per cent) sign (%) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, a number or ratio as a fraction of 100.

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Rail gauge in Australia

Rail gauges in Australia display significant variations, which has presented an extremely difficult problem for rail transport on the Australian continent for over 150 years.

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Railway Regulation (Gauge) Act 1846

The Railway Regulation (Gauge) Act was enacted by the United Kingdom Parliament on 18 August 1846.

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Rio de Janeiro (state)

Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil.

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São Paulo (state)

São Paulo is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus.

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Seymour railway station

Seymour railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia, and serves the town of Seymour.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Swiss Northern Railway

| The Swiss Northern Railway (German: Schweizerische Nordbahn, SNB), informally known as the Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn, opened the first railway line within Switzerland in 1847, connecting the cities of Zürich and Baden.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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Track gauge

In rail transport, track gauge is the spacing of the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces of the load-bearing rails.

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Track gauge conversion

Gauge conversion is the change of one railway track gauge to another.

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Track gauge in Ireland

The track gauge adopted by the mainline railways in Ireland is.

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Tractive force

As used in mechanical engineering, the term tractive force can either refer to the total traction a vehicle exerts on a surface, or the amount of the total traction that is parallel to the direction of motion.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victorian Railways H class

The Victorian Railways H class was an express passenger steam locomotive operated by the Victorian Railways from 1941 to 1958.

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3 ft gauge railways

Three foot gauge railways have a track gauge of or 1 yard.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_ft_3_in_gauge_railways

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