Gauge
Railway
Railway noun - A roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel.
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- You have the railway rifle which fires railway spikes which you build from a pressure cooker, a crutch, a steam gauge assembly and a fission battery.
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Great Western Railway (GWR)- developed by the famous Isambard Kingdom Brunel and initially wide gauge (at 2,140 millimetres, equal to seven feet wide), which accounts for the big tunnels.
Source: Useful Notes / National Rail -
It was the historic terminus of the Great Central Railway (GCR), which was built to European loading gauge standards and in anticipation of a connection to the Channel Tunnel that never came to fruition.
Source: Useful Notes / National Rail
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