Sentence examples for rail gauge from inspiring English sources

It is driven by the transverse shear loading towards the rail gauge face.

It was a rail gauge, to measure the distance between the rails by hand for comparison with electronic readings.

An earlier version of this article described incorrectly the width of the rail gauge used in the former Soviet Union.

More specifically, the focus is on short surface head check like cracks, often observed at the rail gauge corner.

The new designed profile can reduce wheel flange wear and rail gauge corner wear, while meeting the safety requirement of vehicle running performance on tangent track.

Then two-point contact between the wheel and the rail could occur and cause serious wheel flange wear and rail gauge corner wear.

Varying rail gauges meant that a passenger crossing Australia in 1917 had to change trains six times.

But the winding road routes, the complicated rail gauges and the greater potential for attack and logjam make them less attractive than the Pakistani route.

Throughout the world the great majority of freight cars for all rail gauges are built with four axles, divided between two trucks.

The train system is made mainly of broad-gauge track (5 ft/2 m) but includes a variety of rail gauges, which makes frequent transshipment necessary; the country is in the process of converting all tracks to broad gauge.

In some ways it risked repeating what happened at federation when each state mandated its own rail gauges, making it impossible to take a train across state lines in one continuous trip.