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Re: new waggons by Huw Millington
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:44:23 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David writes:
> > > Huw needs a bigger load to justify the drop center though
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> > Not with our measly loading gauge:
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> > http://www.crowsnest.co.uk/gauge.htm
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> I think US loading gauge is quite a lot larger than Euro standard as well
Loads and loads bigger. (sorry! ... 'k, no I'm not).
I just had no idea that UK was so much smaller than the rest of Europe!
After all, the UK is the original home of Broad Gauge...
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| (...) Unfortunately Brunel was a lonely voice of over-engineering - pretty well the whole of the rest of the country followed Stephenson into 4' 8.5" and God's Wonderful Railway had no choice but to change. NR Loading gauge, the size of Underground (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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