Sentence examples for standard gauge rail from inspiring English sources

Standard gauge rail services from Sydney came with the extension of the Main Southern railway line to Cootamundra and Junee in 1878 and the construction of the Murrumbidgee River Rail Bridge in 1881 allowed the line to be extended past Wagga Wagga to Henty and Albury later that year.

The first standard gauge rails were laid by August 1889 as part of a dual gauge setup south of Idlewild, when the Ohio and North Western Railroad (O&NW, successor to the C&E), which had converted its line to standard gauge, moved its trains from the Little Miami Railroad (Pennsylvania Railroad system) back to the CL&N.

France just grabbed the world record for standard-gauge rail trains with its TGV V150.

Other federal grants financed highways linking the state capitals, and paid for standard-gauge rail lines between the states.

The Oslo Metro uses 750 volt direct current fed to the train via a third rail, along a standard gauge track.

The Quehanna plateau was unusual in using standard gauge track for its logging railroads: most such railways were narrow gauge.

A standard gauge track was completed parallel with the broad gauge track from Albury to Melbourne in 1962.

"The rail system uses a broad gauge rather than the standard gauge of most rail in the U.S., so cars must be custom-designed," CNET reported.

Metrolink has 92 stops along 57 mile of standard-gauge track making it the largest light rail system in the United Kingdom.

In preparation for conversion to standard gauge, the CL&N relaid rail and replaced bridges, including a straight trestle in the Deer Creek Valley, completed in January 1889, in place of a curving old narrow gauge structure.

The second interstate link from Victoria to Adelaide (the oldest single-gauge inter-capital line dating from 1887) was converted from broad to standard gauge in 1995 enabling rail traffic from Victoria to access the rest of the nation without disruption.