Break of gauge
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With railways, a break of gauge occurs where a line of one track gauge meets a line of a different gauge. Trains and rolling stock generally cannot run through without some form of conversion between
A cartoon depicting the "horrors of goods transfer" at the break of gauge at Gloucester in 1843
Bogie-exchange station in Ukraine
Variable gauge axles on a Spanish train designed for intercity travel to France
A train on 1435 mm standard-gauge track leaving Russia. It is bound for Manzhouli, China, having replaced its 1520 mm-gauge bogies with standard-gauge bogies at the bogie exchange yard in the distance.
Variable gauge
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Variable gauge systems allow railway vehicles to travel between two railways with different track gauges. Vehicles are equipped with variable gauge axles. The gauge is altered by driving the train thr
Break of gauge
…era of railways in Britain, various solutions other than transloading were conceived,. including rollbocks, transporter wagons, dual gauge track or variable gauge axles, and containerization of freight, but they were not implemented at the height of the Gauge War in the 1840s, which resulted the need for…
Variable gauge axle DR III for 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) and 1,524 mm (5 ft) gauge, developed in 1957
A Talgo gauge changing system in Lleida, Spain
The Japanese third-generation GCT "Gauge Change Train" EMU on a test run in November 2014
The first-generation "Gauge Change Train" EMU in May 2003