Sentence examples for the broad gauge from inspiring English sources

The broad gauge made possible high speeds that were a great stimulus to railway progress.

His introduction of the broad-gauge railway (rails 7 feet [2 metres] apart) provoked the famous "battle of the gauges". The broad gauge made possible high speeds that were a great stimulus to railway progress.

This became the broad gauge.

This was the furthest north that the broad gauge reached.

The broad gauge rolling stock is manufactured by two major suppliers.

For his first railway, Brunel chose to use the broad gauge.

Against the earlier, harsher critics of the magazine, she argues that its readers were neither monolithic nor easily duped, and that the letters to the editors, and, indeed, the broader gauge of cartoons and jokes and remarks published about it elsewhere, show that, whatever National Geographic might have been selling, the audience was not necessarily buying it.

Around midsession the Dow is down 47.12 to 8964.13, while the broader gauge Standard & Poors 500 Index sheds 3.83 to 1132.04.

Financial stocks lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average 91.66 points to 9011.23, while the broader gauge Standard & Poors 500 Index tacked on 9.58 to 1135.30.

His introduction of the broad-gauge railway (rails 7 feet [2 metres] apart) provoked the famous "battle of the gauges".

THE bear market, as defined by the broad-gauge Standard & Poor's 500, officially began on March 12, when it was down 20percentt from its peak.