Sentence examples for gauge lines from inspiring English sources

By 1980 the closing process stopped and finally about 1600 km of normal gauge lines were closed (instead of the originally planned 2600 km).

These lines are mostly standard gauge (single, double or quadruple track) though there are also a few narrow gauge lines.

In 1898 Calthrop corresponded with the government of the colony of Victoria, Australia, regarding proposals for the construction of narrow gauge lines in that colony.

One of the main railheads of the Northern Railways, Haridwar Junction Railway Station is connected by meter gauge and broad gauge lines.

In the mid-19th century it became connected to the rest of Britain by a complex set of railway lines which resulted from competition between the broad gauge lines of the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the standard gauge lines of the London and South Western Railway (LSWR).

Victorian lines use broad gauge, with the exception of a number of standard gauge freight and interstate lines, a few experimental narrow gauge lines, and various private logging, mining and industrial railways.

The 3-foot-6-inch- (1,065-mm- 1,065-mm-ne crossed the Zambezi at Victoria Falls in 1905, reachingauge Copperbelinen 1909.

This is the South Tynedale Railway, a narrow gauge line that starts at Alston before crossing the border from Cumbria into Northumberland.

The proposed high-capacity standard gauge line will reduce the journey time from Nairobi to Mombasa from 13 hours to three hours and boost business prospects across the region, according to the KRC.

The area is connected with Agra Bombay Highway (NH-3) and Western Railway's broad gauge line of the Kota-Bina section, which provides all communications with other states.

There are plans to replace the old narrow-gauge line with a new standard gauge line over the next three to five years, with high speed trains cutting the journey time from Nairobi to Mombasa from the current 15 hours to a mere two or three.