I just saw a picture of a railroad scene in Bengladesh, and there appears to be dual gauge. I know that India has wide-gauge track-or at least used to, but what is the narrow gauge track work out to?
Rich
Rich,
I believe I've heard of meter gauge in India. And there may be three foot, left over from the Raj.
Gene
Gene;
I know from pics I have seen of road units with wide-gauge trucks, being loaded onto vessels for shipment to India. I can see maybe that narrow gauge working out to being metre gauge. At any rate, it did catch my eye as unusual.
Rich
Quote from: SteamGene on October 23, 2007, 05:21:28 PM
Rich,
I believe I've heard of meter gauge in India. And there may be three foot, left over from the Raj.
Gene
I beleive that it is indeed metre gauge track. I'm not sure though, *Checks Wikipedia* Yep, its metre guage, 30" gauge & a little 2' gauge.
Two-foot and metric! Wow! Now that is different; or as they say: A prototype for everything...
Thanks for the feedback, Jake and Gene.
RIch
Some interesting information can be found at
www.irfca.org/faq/faq-gauge.html (http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-gauge.html)
India had considersably more 30 inch gauge than 2 foot. Metre gauge seems to have come about because India was looking at adopting the metric system, although that didn't happen then. As well as dual broad gauge (5 foot 6 inches) and mtere there were examples of dual broad and narrow (30 inch) and metre and 30 inch track. In one case a metre gauge loco hauled 30 inch gauge stock on dual gauge track. That would be interesting in model form, and prototypical as well!
Hamish