At 18:36 -0400 01/01/6, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
>Trains can roll from Inverness to Istanbul. They couldn"t do it if the
>British gauge was 1435.1 mm and the continental gauge 1430 mm. European
>mechanical engineering uses the millimetre for all dimensions, including
>the dimensions of railway locomotives. I assume that the railway gauge is
>also expressed in millimetres as 1435.
I found an intersting web site listing all railways gauges used in the world at
http://turksib.com/gauges/index-e.html
Louis
