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"broad-gauge" Definitions
  1. wide in area or scope
  2. comprehensive in outlook, range, or capability
"broad-gauge" Synonyms
comprehensive complete full exhaustive thorough encyclopaedic(UK) encyclopedic(US) universal compendious embracive inclusive cyclopedic global panoramic omnibus in-depth all-embracing all-inclusive all-in cover-all
"broad-gauge" Antonyms
limited deficient insufficient incomplete inadequate little minimal unsatisfactory diminished ineffectual paltry poor small cramped faulty imperfect partial reduced short circumscribed

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The MSCI World index, a broad gauge of global stocks, fell 7.4 percent in October.
MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe was up for a third day, rising 21%.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.47% and MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe .
The pan-European STOXX 21 index % and MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe gained 2474.80%.
MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.21%, while bourses in Paris, Frankfurt and Milan rebounded.
MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.31%, while bourses in Paris, Frankfurt and Milan rebounded.
MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe shed 2340.16%, while the pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.40%.
MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe was on track for a third day of gains, rising 21%.
The pan-European STOXX 254.87 index lost 21% and MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe gained 2474.80%.
MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe shed 0.33%, while the pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.40%.
The pan-European STOXX 21 index lost 2474.80% and MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.50%.
MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe shed 0.33%, while the pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.35%.
MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe shed 20.1%, while the pan-European STOXX 21 index lost 2341.23%.
MARKETS A broad gauge of Asian share markets rose to an 18-month high on Monday as Chinese equities gained.
It is also aiming for 20203% growth of M2 (a broad gauge of the money supply), up from 12% last year.
Nepal's only railway link, a 35 km (22 miles) track in its southern plains also built by India, is broad gauge.
As a baseline, we plot your results against those of the S&P 500, a broad gauge of stock market performance.
MSCI's broad gauge of global equity markets rose 20143 percent and turned positive for the year as it hit three-weeks highs.
MSCI's broad gauge of global equity markets rose 22014 percent and turned positive for the year as it hit three-weeks highs.
Wall Street had gained overnight and MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the world rose for the first day in seven sessions.
The S&P 21 — a broad gauge of U.S. shares — has gained just over 21% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq almost 2560%.
The S&P 21 -- a broad gauge of U.S. shares -- has gained just over 21% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq almost 2560%.
MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the globe shed 0.04%, but stocks on Wall Street gained, along with bourses in Paris, Frankfurt and Milan.
The witnesses made clear how far this targeted Trumpian initiative deviated from the systematic, broad-gauge anticorruption efforts American diplomats have been seeking in Ukraine for years.
The broad gauge of money supply, known as M2, was at an all-time low around 9 percent in November, against the year target around 12 percent.
On Wall Street on Tuesday, the S&P 20.6748 gained 20.6527% and MSCI's broad gauge of stocks across the world rose 225%, its first gain in seven sessions.
Annual growth in outstanding total social financing, a broad gauge of credit that includes off-balance sheet financing, slowed to 10.1 percent in August, the lowest on record.
They would replace the single-gauge tracks with broad gauge, while extending the line some 500 miles north to the city of Leh, in the mountainous state of Ladakh.
Fears a trade spat between the United States and China could escalate plus economic problems in Turkey and Argentina have pushed a broad gauge of emerging market stocks to a 14-month low.
It began with ladies-in-waiting in an Elizabethan court, in long broad-gauge knit gowns, like giant woolly scarves, with elaborate tulle or mille-feuille satin boleros buckled on with leather saddle straps.
It calls for technology that can adapt to different train gauges used along the way from Southeast Asia's metre-wide gauge to China's 1.435-metre standard gauge to Russia's 1.52-metre broad gauge, Jia said.
Only a quarter of UK-focused equity funds have bettered the performance of the FTSE 350, a broad gauge of British stocks comprising large and mid-cap companies, data from fund tracker FE Trustnet shows.
He said the budget deficit would reach 3% of GDP, up from last year's 2.3% target, and M2 (a broad gauge of the money supply) would grow by 13%, compared with last year's target of 803%.
The train service, which eventually became a cheap way for travelers to cross the international border, closed in January 2014 for a $100-million project to upgrade the colonial-era narrow rail track into a broad-gauge line.
Underlining a struggle to accelerate inflation to the Bank of Japan's 2 percent target, the GDP deflator, a broad gauge of prices, fell 0.1 percent in October-December from the same period a year earlier, down for a second straight quarter of declines.
Last year, India proposed laying a broad-gauge (1,676 mm) rail link from its border town of Raxaul to the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, spurred by China's plans to extend its standard gauge, or 1,435 mm measure, line from Tibet to the city.
Trade-weighted sterling, a broad gauge of the pound's performance against a basket of currencies, fell to a more than two-year low while the implied volatility on three-month sterling/dollar options soared to 14.5 percent, the highest level since mid-2010.
DUBAI, May 11 (Reuters) - Gulf stock markets may consolidate with a firm bias on Wednesday after the Brent oil price jumped 4 percent on Tuesday and MSCI's broad gauge of global stocks climbed nearly 1.1 percent, its best session in about a month.
The last broad-gauge line closed in 1911. The Toronto subway and streetcar system use a broad-gauge of .
The Bathinda-Rewari metre gauge line was converted to wide broad gauge in 1994. The metre gauge Hisar-Sadulpur link was converted to broad gauge in 2009. Bhiwani-Rohtak link was also converted to broad gauge.
The Indian part of EBR was converted to broad gauge in 1990s to 2010s. The Bangladesh part is under conversion to broad gauge.
The Indian part of ABR was converted to broad gauge in 1990s to 2010s. The Bangladesh part is under conversion to broad gauge.
The wide metre gauge Delhi-Bandikui and Bandikui- Agra lines of Rajputana State Railway were opened in 1874. The lines were converted to broad gauge in early 2000s. The Hathras Road-Mathura Cantt broad gauge line was opened in 1875 and the Agra-Gwalior broad gauge line was opened in 1881. The broad gauge Agra-Delhi chord was opened in 1904.
The Kurduwadi–Miraj section was converted to broad gauge in 2002. The Latur–Osmanabad section was converted to broad gauge in September 2007. (Osmanabad did not lie on the narrow-gauge railway line and the alignment was changed for the new broad-gauge track to pass through Osmanabad). Finally the remaining Osmanabad–Kurduwadi section of broad-gauge track became operational in October 2008.
When broad-gauge lines were laid in the area, it was reconverted to broad gauge and now functions as the Haldibari–New Jalpaiguri line.
When broad-gauge lines were laid in the area, it was reconverted to broad gauge and now functions as the Haldibari–New Jalpaiguri Line.
Construction of the -long -wide broad gauge Siliguri–Jogihopa line, between 1963 and 1965, created broad-gauge railway links in North Bengal and Assam.
Construction of the -long -wide broad gauge Siliguri–Jogihopa line, between 1963 and 1965, created broad-gauge railway links in North Bengal and Assam.
When broad-gauge lines were laid in the area, it was reconverted to broad gauge and now functions as the Haldibari–New Jalpaiguri line.
The Jhanjharpur-Laukaha Bazar line was opened in 1976. The lines were converted to broad gauge in phases starting from early 1980s. Samastipur to Darbhanga (metre to broad gauge) was converted around 1983. Siwan to Thawe (metre to broad gauge) was converted in early 2006.
The then meter gauge line was upgraded to broad gauge in 1961. GDV-BVRM Broad gauge railway opened by Jagjivan Ram Railway Minister on 8 October 1961.
Most of the metre gauge and narrow gauge railways have been converted to broad gauge. Small stretches of the network that remain on metre and narrow gauges are also being converted to broad gauge. Rapid transit lines, are mostly on standard gauge, although some initial lines use broad gauge.
As the broad gauge system was no longer in use in South Wales, the L&OR; removed the third rail that had been provided for broad gauge vehicles.
The Bangalore-Shimoga line was converted to broad gauge starting from late 1990s to early 2000s. Finally, the Shimoga-Talaguppa line was converted to broad gauge in 2007.
Mudkhed Junction as in 2010 is the junction of three railway lines. A Broad gauge line goes to Mumbai, a Broad gauge line to be goes to Nagpur, and another broad gauge line goes to Secunderabad. Mudked is located towards east from district headquarters Nanded. from State capital Mumbai towards west.
The short reign was over in the 1960s when a new broad-gauge line linked Siliguri with Calcutta, and subsequently, all railway lines in the area (excepting Darjeeling Himalayan Railway) were converted to broad gauge. The focus shifted in 1960 to a brand new broad-gauge station at New Jalpaiguri.
Hathras Junction railway station is one having an oddity. The station is on the wide broad gauge Kanpur-Delhi section. A broad gauge line takes off from this station and goes to Hathras Kuila railway station. At the Kanpur-end of the Hathras Junction railway station, the Mathura-Kasganj {now broad gauge} line cuts across the broad gauge line at right angles and has a separate overhead station named Hathras Road within the same premises.
EMU car shed at Tambaram railway station The first broad gauge line at Tambaram was laid in 1995–96, which was part of the broad gauge conversion from Egmore. In 2004, platform 2 was converted to broad gauge line. In 2008, platform 1 was built. Subsequently, the conversion of lines at platforms 3, 4 and 5 into broad gauge was taken up but had to be halted due to a shortage of funds.
The railway line from Latur to Kurduwadi to Miraj was narrow gauge. The Kurduwadi-Pandharpur section towards Miraj was converted to broad gauge in 2002. The Latur to Osmanabad section was converted to broad gauge in September 2007. (Osmanabad did not lie on the narrow gauge railway line and the alignment was changed for the new broad gauge track to pass through Osmanabad.) The Osmanabad-Kurduwadi section of broad gauge track became operational in October 2008.
A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , commonly known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union (CIS states, Baltic states, Georgia and Ukraine), Mongolia and Finland. Broad gauge of , commonly known as Irish Gauge, is the dominant track gauge in Ireland. Broad gauge of , commonly known as Iberian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in Spain and Portugal.
Katwa railway station is a railway junction on Broad Gauge railway line from Calcutta/ Howrah to New Jalpaiguri railway station. The Bardhaman-Katwa line, after conversion from narrow gauge to electrified broad gauge, was opened to the public on 12 January 2018. The Katwa-Ahmedpur narrow gauge railway line is being converted to broad gauge.
The Jodhpur–Bikaner track, along with the link to Phulera, had been taken in/before 1991 for conversion to wide broad gauge. According to a Press Information Bureau release issued in 2008, the Jodhpur–Merta City–Bikaner–Bathinda line was broad gauge. The Bikaner-Rewari line was converted to broad gauge during the period 2008–2011.
Dindigul was major junction point right from Meter gauge era in Great South Indian Railway. Meter gauge routes to Coimbatore Junction railway, Tiruchirappalli Junction and Madurai Junction. In 1990s, the first broad gauge line was established by Karur and Madurai Broad-gauge track. The line between Madurai and Dindigul was a Meter Gauge and Broad Gauge parallel lines.
Nawalgarh is connected through broad gauge railway line and situated on the Sikar-Loharu railway line section. The broad gauge section passes through the western corner of the city where the main city railway station situated. Now the city has direct connectivity through broad gauge line section to Delhi via Loharu and to Jaipur via Sikar and Ringus.
In Nepal, all services currently operate on broad gauge only.
In Pakistan, all services currently operate on broad gauge only.
The railway network was converted to broad gauge in 2010s.
LHS links southern Poland with broad-gauge railways in Ukraine and other eastern countries Except for Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa, and a few very short stretches near border crossings, Poland uses the standard gauge for its railways. Therefore, Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa (known by its acronym LHS, English: Broad-gauge steelworks line) in Sławków is the longest broad-gauge railway line in Poland. The line runs on a single track for almost from the Polish-Ukrainian border, crossing it just east of Hrubieszów. It is the westernmost broad-gauge railway line in Europe that is connected to the broad-gauge rail system of the countries of the former Soviet Union.
The former metre gauge workshop at Jodhpur now performs periodic overhauling of broad gauge passenger coaches. The former metre gauge workshop at Bikaner (Lalgarh) workshop carries out periodic overhauling of broad gauge coaches and wagons.
The railway lines were converted to broad gauge in the 1990s.
In Sri Lanka, all services currently operate on broad gauge only.
The Baroda State Railway is currently under conversion to broad gauge.
The railway was converted to Broad gauge in the year 2001.
This isolation ultimately marked the end for Brunel's broad gauge system.
The railway network was converted to broad gauge in late 1990s.
In 1907 Adra was connected to the Grand Chord at Gomoh with a wide Broad Gauge line.R.P.Saxena, Indian Railway Time Table. The construction of the long broad gauge Chandrapura-Muri-Ranchi-Hatia line was started in 1957 and was completed in 1961. The construction of this line included the conversion of the narrow gauge Kotshila-Ranchi line to broad gauge.
Construction of the long -wide broad gauge Siliguri-Jogihopa line, between 1963 and 1965, brought broad-gauge railways to Assam. It also was the reason for setting up the New Bongaigaon railway station. New railway track from New Bongaigaon to Guwahati was commissioned in 1984. Saraighat Bridge opened in 1962, initially carried a metre-gauge track, which was later replaced by broad gauge.
As all the other tracks in the area were metre gauge, it was converted from broad gauge to mere gauge in the late forties. When New Jalpaiguri station came up, the line was extended to New Jalpiguri. When broad gauge lines were laid in the area, it was reconverted to broad gauge and now functions as the Haldibari-New Jalpaiguri Line.
Another key element of Clapp's 1945 proposal was delivered, at least in part, with the standardisation of the broad gauge Crystal Brook line connecting Adelaide to the transcontinental Sydney–Perth railway in 1982, followed by the standardisation of South Australia's non-metropolitan broad gauge network and most of the broad gauge network in western Victoria in 1995, including the main Melbourne-Adelaide railway.
Conversion of metre gauge to broad gauge started in 1991. The Delhi-Rewari railway line had double metre gauge tracks and one of the tracks was converted to broad gauge in December 1994 as a part of conversion of Ajmer-Delhi line. This allowed metre gauge trains from north Rajasthan to continue up to Delhi railway junction on the remaining track while broad gauge trains ran from Delhi railway junction to Rewari on the other track. Rewari-Bhatinda track was converted to broad gauge in December 1994Overview of Bikaner Division and Delhi was connected to Bhatinda (and further north) by broad gauge trains via Rewari for the first time opening an alternative route.
Starting with the 1995s the entire area was converted to broad gauge.
A broad-gauge railway facility between Kota and Jodhpur via Jaipur exists.
The network was converted to broad gauge progressively in 2000s and 2010s.
The railway was converted to broad gauge progressively from 1993 till 2009.
The CR used a broad gauge, similar to other Pennsylvania interurban lines.
A new broad gauge line connecting Kadapa with Bangalore is in progress.
It was converted to broad gauge in 1927 and closed in 1988.
The Jabalpur - Balaghat section of South East Central Railway runs north to south through the district, along the valley of the Satpura Mountains and Wainganga River valley . The line was formerly narrow gauge () for its entire length, but the section between Balaghat to Gondia was converted to broad gauge in 2005–06, connecting Balaghat to India's national broad gauge network for the first time. Work is underway to convert the Balaghat-Jabalpur section to broad gauge as well. A Broad gauge line runs to west from Balaghat to Katangi.
The Rewari-Jaipur-Ajmer track was converted to broad gauge in 1995 and broad gauge trains started running from Ajmer to Delhi via Rewari. Broad gauge trains started running from Ahmedabad to Delhi via Rewari from May 2007. Within a few years, both the tracks from Sarai Rohilla to Delhi railway junction were converted to broad gauge and all metre gauge trains stopped operating from Delhi junction. As a result of this, all metre gauge trains to Rewari and beyond terminated at and started from Sarai Rohilla which became a railway terminus.
Both meter gauge and broad gauge lines earlier passed through this station. There is a diamond railway crossing. The broad gauge started in 1982 from Bhatinda to Suratgarh via Hanumangarh and first train was flagged by Milkha Singh.
', a broad gauge, is the track gauge used in India, Pakistan, western Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Chile, and on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) in the San Francisco Bay Area. In North America, it is called Provincial, Portland, or Texas gauge. In Argentina, it is known as "trocha ancha" (Spanish for broad gauge). In the Indian Subcontinent it is simply known as "broad gauge".
Bairabi is one of the railhead of Mizoram, connected with a broad gauge line. Katakhal-Bairabi metre gauge track was converted to broad gauge, having got the status of national project, it was fast tracked and completed on 21 March 2016.Sanctioned in 2000, broad-gauge train reaches Mizoram after 16 years Indian Express, Retrieved 21 March 2016. On completion this will be extended to Sairang.
The wide narrow gauge Purulia-Ranchi line was opened by Bengal Nagpur Railway in 1907. The construction of the long broad gauge Chandrapura-Muri-Ranchi-Hatia line was started in 1957 and was completed in 1961. The construction of this line included the conversion of the narrow gauge Kotshila-Ranchi line to broad gauge. The narrow gauge Purulia-Kotshila sector was converted to broad gauge in 1992.
In the early 1960s, when Farakka Barrage was being constructed, a far reaching change was made. Indian Railways constructed a new broad-gauge rail link from south Bengal. New Jalpaiguri, a new broad gauge station was built south of Siliguri Town. The long wide broad gauge line was constructed from Khejuriaghat, on the north bank of the Padma to Malda between 1959 and 1963.
The Satpura Railway is under conversion to broad gauge. The section between Gondia and Balaghat was converted to broad gauge in 2005–2006 connecting Balaghat to India's national network for the first time. Work is underway to convert the Balaghat–Jabalpur section to broad gauge. The narrow gauge trains running between Jabalpur and Balaghat were stopped in October 2015 and the track was closed for gauge conversion.
Indian Railways took up the Assam Link Project in 1948 to build a rail link between Fakiragram and Kishanganj. Fakiragram was connected to the Indian railway system in 1950. Construction of the long wide broad gauge in the New Maynaguri–Jogighopa line, between 1963 and 1965, brought broad gauge railways to Assam. Fakiragram–Dhubri line was opened in September 2010 after conversion to broad gauge.
The Silguri–Haldibari line has gone through two successive gauge changes. As most other railway tracks in the area were metre gauge, the line was converted from broad gauge to metre gauge in 1949. Then in the nineteen sixties when broad gauge was introduced in the area, the line was converted back to broad gauge and connected to the new station at New Jalpaiguri.
The network was converted to wide broad gauge progressively in 2000s and 2010s.
The network was converted to wide broad gauge progressively in 2000s and 2010s.
The station has only one platform, and a single diesel broad gauge track.
Most installations of broad gauge railways are in the south of the country.
The narrow gauge line was converted to broad gauge in the year 2011.
In 2009, the metre gauge Hisar-Sadulpur section was converted to broad gauge.
The railway lines were converted to broad gauge starting from 1990s to 2010s.
The C&S; used a broad gauge, similar to other Pennsylvania interurban lines.
ScaleSeven (S7) is a set of finescale model railway standards for 1:43.5 (7 mm scale) using true-to-prototype track and wheel standards. It is principally used to model British standard gauge (), Irish Broad Gauge (), or Great Western broad gauge ().
This broad gauge railway track is electrified also belongs to North Central zone. The third railway line converted to broad gauge belongs to North Eastern Railway zone. The track runs parallel to the Ganges river. This track is also electrified.
The wide metre gauge Delhi-Bandikui and Bandikui-Agra lines of Rajputana State Railway were opened in 1874. The Agra-Jaipur line was converted to wide broad gauge in 2005. The broad gauge Agra-Delhi chord was opened in 1904.
The tracks on the viaduct were laid as mixed-gauge track, broad gauge for use by the SWR and standard gauge for the Llanelly Railway. During May 1872, the SWR transitioned to standard gauge, and the broad gauge tracks were redundant.
The -wide metre gauge Delhi-Bandikui and Bandikui-Agra lines of Rajputana State Railway were opened in 1874. The Agra-Jaipur line was converted to -wide broad gauge in 2005. The broad-gauge Agra-Delhi chord was opened in 1904.
After conversion work of the Thanjavur–Tiruvarur broad gauge section was opened to traffic in 2006 and Tiruvarur–Nagore section in 2010. The long Viluppuram - Thanjavur was converted to Broad Gauge in 2010. A broad gauge line (conversion from metre gauge) connecting Chengalpattu with Arakkonam was built in 1999–2000. The Thakolam-Arakkonam sector had to be realigned because of its proximity to the Arakkonam Naval Air Station.
Presently, it is between the Paksey and Bheramara stations on the broad gauge line between Khulna and Parbatipur in Bangladesh. In 1926 the metre-gauge section north of the bridge was converted to broad gauge, and so the entire Calcutta - Siliguri route became broad-gauge. In the pre- independence days, two legendary mail trains used the Sealdah-Parbatipur line. The Darjeeling Mail linked Kolkata, then known as Calcutta, and Siliguri.
The 53 km long railway section was converted to broad gauge, work for which began on 15 April 2010. The Bardhaman-Balogna section of the line, after conversion from narrow gauge to electrified broad gauge, was opened to the public on 11 February 2014. The Balogna-Katwa section of the line, after conversion from narrow gauge to electrified broad gauge, was opened to the public on 12 January 2018.
The GWR converted the gauge of the South Wales Railway line to standard gauge on 12 May 1872. The C&CR; was obliged to convert its remaining broad gauge section, the three miles from Pencader to Llandyssil, as well. This was completed on 1 June 1872 at which time broad-gauge operation elsewhere in Wales had already ceased: the C&CR; ran the last broad gauge trains in Wales.
In the former USSR, all trains use the Russian broad gauge of 1520 mm.
The locomotive shed at Rewari has been restored. It now houses broad gauge locomotives.
As of 2016, electrification of the Single Broad Gauge railway line is in progress.
The railway lines were converted to broad gauge in sections from 1994 till 2017.
Constructed as a broad gauge line, it was converted to standard gauge in 1878.
Recently gauge conversion to broad gauge has been approved by the Government of India.
The long wide broad gauge Siliguri-Jogihopa line was constructed between 1963 and 1965.
In 2014, the railway owned 312 broad gauge coaches and 1,164 metre gauge coaches.
In 2016, Indian Railways announced that the railway would be converted to broad gauge.
The railway track from Raxaul to Birgunj was converted to broad gauge two years after the Indian railways converted the track to Raxaul inside India to broad gauge. Now, broad gauge railway line connects Raxaul to the Sirsiya (Birgunj) Inland Container Depot (ICD) that became fully operational in 2005. Talks have been held to reopen the railway route from Birgunj to Amlekhganj in Nepal by converting it to broad gauge because of its socio-economic importance. Goods are transported to and from India via Birgunj dry port, which is the key terminal of surface cargo delivery to Nepal.
In the past during Nizam's period, Latur railway was a Narrow-gauge but in 2007 work started to convert it to a Broad gauge in barsi light railway. In 2008, the entire Miraj Latur line was converted from narrow gauge to broad gauge.
It has a railway station on the Broad gauge system of Sri Lanka Government Railway.
It has a railway station on the Broad gauge system of Sri Lanka Government Railway.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Garia.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Majerhat.
The broad gauge line from New Jalpaiguri to Samuktala Road was added in the 1960s.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Santoshpur.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Nangi.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Akra.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Mallikpur.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Subhashgram.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Narendrapur.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Dhakuria.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Baghajatin.
The broad gauge locomotives retained their old numbers, but the standard gauge ones were renumbered.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Jadavpur.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Sonarpur.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Baruipur.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Ballygunge.
GDV-NSP Broad gauge railway opened by Jagjivan Ram Railway Minister on 8 October 1961.
The 84.25 km broad gauge railway line from to , was completed on 21 March 2016.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Tollygunge.
The current Sengkang LRT Line and Punggol LRT line are the only lines on the Light Rail Transit system to use the 1,850mm (6 ft 0⅞ in) broad gauge. The current Changi Airport Skytrain also uses the 1,850mm (6 ft 0⅞ in) broad gauge, however is not part of the Mass Rapid Transit system. Both system uses the same Mitsubishi Crystal Mover rolling stock which uses the 1,850mm (6 ft 0⅞ in) broad gauge.
The station consists of 3 platforms, two for broad gauge and one for meter gauge. Bahraich to Jarwal Road is a Broad gauge station 55 kilometers (34 miles) from district headquarters and lies on Delhi–Barauni line. Plans for converting the Bahraich – Gonda tracks to broad-gauge have been in talks since October 2018. It is complete as of July 2020, but due to lack of electrification, only diesel locomotives are run in these tracks.
The Jabalpur Junction is a broad gauge station. It is connected with Katni to the north east, Itarsi to the south west and Nainpur Junction to the South. On 1 October Narrow gauge line stop working as per order of railway ministry hence this rail route is converting as Jabalpur Nagpur broad gauge line. Out of the Jabalpur-Balaghat section, Jabalpur- Nainpur and Balaghat-Samnapur have already been converted to Broad Gauge.
The Košice-Vienna broad-gauge line (red) The Košice–Vienna broad-gauge line (, ) is an international project to extend the (broad-gauge) railway line from the city of Košice in eastern Slovakia to Vienna and Bratislava. It will result in the creation of an rail transport corridor linking Western Europe and China. The project is part of the Eurasian Land Bridge initiative to create a continuous rail connection between Europe and East Asia.
The 1.8 km long Hardinge Bridge across the Padma came up in 1912. Presently, it is between the Paksey and Bheramara stations on the broad gauge line between Darshana and Parbatipur in Bangladesh. In 1926 the metre gauge section north of the bridge was converted to broad gauge, and so the entire Calcutta-Siliguri route became broad gauge. The route thus ran: Sealdah–Ranaghat–Bheramara–Hardinge Bridge–Iswardi–Santahar–Hili–Parabtipur–Nilphamari–Haldibari–Jalpaiguri–Siliguri.
Until 2006 it was a metre gauge station. In 2006 Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav reopened the line as a broad gauge railway line towards Lucknow. The first station superintendent was Mr. V.N. Pandey. In 2008 a broad gauge line opened towards Mathura too.
Some parts of it were relaid during the construction of New Delhi (inaugurated in 1927-28). The long wide broad gauge Barhan-Etah line was constructed in 1959. The long wide broad gauge Ghaziabad-Tughlakabad line, including bridge across Yamuna, was completed in 1966.
The Bristol & Exeter continued to run broad gauge goods trains to Crediton until 20 May 1892.
The railway station of Shimiliguda was the first highest broad gauge railway station in the country.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Brace Bridge.
Now, the only broad-gauge rail systems in the United States are some city transit systems.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Jaynagar Majilpur.
The SteamRanger historic tourist train runs on the isolated broad gauge line, including stops at Strathalbyn.
In FY 2018-19 budget, 36,000 of broad gauge renewal was approved to enhance the safety.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to New Alipore.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Lake Gardens.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Park Circus.
The Broad Gauge was technically superior but conversion of the standard gauge routes to broad would have meant reconstructing every tunnel, bridge and station platform, whereas universal adoption of the standard gauge only required the progressive conversion of the track itself. The broad gauge was doomed, and no further independent broad gauge lines could be built. The existing broad gauge routes could continue, but as they had no development potential it was only a matter of time before they were eventually converted to standard. In the meantime, an extensive mileage of mixed gauge track was installed, where each line had three rails to accommodate trains of either gauge.
Kalka railway station is the northern terminal of the Delhi-Kalka line of Northern Railway, Indian Rail (Station code KLK) serving as terminal station for broad gauge line (towards Chandigarh) and narrow gauge line (towards Shimla). Direct trains on broad gauge, connect to Delhi, Mumbai, Howrah etc.
In modern usage, the term "broad gauge" generally refers to track spaced significantly wider than . Broad gauge is the dominant gauge in countries in Indian subcontinent, the former Soviet Union (CIS states, Baltic states, Georgia and Ukraine), Mongolia and Finland, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Chile and Ireland.
Delhi is connected via Satyagraha Express and Sadbhavana Express. Earlier, all tracks were metre gauge but most have been converted to Broad gauge. After the completion of the gauge conversion from Darbhanga to Sagauli via Sitamarhi, another broad gauge route to Sagauli became available from March 2014.
Presently all the tracks are under Broad Gauge Conversion. Jabalpur Gondia via Nainpur is since converted to BG.Narrow gauge section closes from 1 October in Satputda valley The railway yard has Indian Oil depot for refueling the locomotives. Jabalpur-Nainpur track has been converted to broad gauge.
The Bardhaman–Katwa line, after conversion from narrow gauge to electrified broad gauge, was opened to the public on 12 January 2018. The track from Katwa to Ahmedpur line after conversion from narrow gauge to broad gauge, was opened to the public on 24 May 2018.
LHS links southern Poland with broad gauge railways in Ukraine and other eastern countries The network is standard gauge except for the Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line (known by its Polish abbreviation LHS) and a few short stretches near border crossings. The LHS to Sławków is the longest line, single track for almost 400 km from the Ukrainian border just east of Hrubieszów. It is the westernmost broad gauge line connected to the system of the former Soviet Union.
The railway tracks are broad gauge. Bhinmal is connected to all major cities by all weather roads.
In India, the broad gauge E class was rebuilt in the 1940s and survived into the 1970s.
Railways with track gauge of ' are broad-gauge railways, currently in use in Australia, Brazil and Ireland.
The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway opened the wide broad gauge line from Varanasi to Lucknow in 1872.
The train line was broad- gauge and 149 km long, connecting the Bangalore Cantonment with Vellore district.
707 Operations run regular trips across the broad gauge rail network in Victoria and also charter trains.
In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide recent Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to New Garia.
The South Indian Railway Company laid a long metre gauge trunk line from Chennai to Tuticorin in 1880. With the conversion from metre gauge to broad gauge in the entire Egmore-Tambaram-Villupuram-Tiruchirapall-Dindigul-Madurai sector virtually complete broad gauge passenger traffic was initiated in March 2001.
Sometime around or prior to 1991, the construction work for the conversion from meter gauge to wide broad gauge of the Jodhpur–Bikaner line, along with the link to Phulera, were started, and it was already functioning as broad gauge Jodhpur–Merta City–Bikaner–Bathinda line by 2008.
In 1861, the line was doubled, a standard gauge track being laid alongside the original broad gauge track. The new track was used by the freight services, while passenger trains continued to use the broad gauge track. Complete conversion of the line to standard gauge took place in 1875.
By transferring to a broad gauge train in Erzurum, passengers could travel to Kars, the last Turkish city before the Soviet Union. In 1962, the broad gauge line from Erzurum-Kars-Akkaya was made standard gauge by the State Railways. The Eastern Express was extended to Kars in 1962.
Rajputana State Railway extended the metre gauge Delhi–Ajmer line to Ahmedabad in 1881. The Khodiyar–Mahesana sector was converted to wide broad gauge in 1995 and the Mahesana–Palanpur section was converted in 1997, which along with the conversion of the Ajmer–Palanpur section, completed the conversion of the entire Jaipur–Ahmedabad line. Viramgam-Mahesana section was re-opened in 2005, after gauge conversion to wide broad gauge. Mahesana–Taranga Hill line is under gauge conversion to wide broad gauge.
Before 2004, a narrow-gauge track connecting Latur to Kurduvadi was passing through Osmanabad district. Yedshi was nearest station for Osmanabad which was 18 km away from Osmanabad City. During the gauge conversion from narrow gauge to broad gauge, then Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh decided to change the track alignment and directed towards Osmanabad city and Latur-Kurudvadi broad- gauge route is passed through Osmanabad. In first step broad gauge track between Latur-Osmanabad was completed and it became functional in 2007.
Sairang lies on the route of Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project. It is connected with roads from major towns in Assam, through NH 54. The nearest railway station is at Bairabi, which is connected to the railway network with a broad gauge track. A new broad gauge line from Bairabi to Sairang is under construction and is expected to be commissioned by 2019.Sanctioned in 2000, broad-gauge train reaches Mizoram after 16 years Indian Express, Retrieved 21 March 2016.
In 1883–84 the -wide metre-gauge line of Assam Behar State Railway met the Eastern Bengal Railway's -wide broad gauge line at Parbatipur. It reached Katihar in 1888-89 and in 1909 it reached Amingaon on the banks of the Brahmaputra, which could be crossed by ferry to reach Guwahati. The new broad- gauge track from New Bongaigaon to Guwahati was commissioned in 1984. Saraighat Bridge opened in 1962, initially carried metre-gauge tracks, which was later replaced by broad-gauge tracks.
Crampton worked as assistant to Marc Brunel and on joining the GWR in 1839, then Daniel Gooch. Crampton was involved in the design of the "Firefly" class of locomotives. Gooch's aim was to produce broad gauge locomotives that were better than those on the standard gauge lines, thus proving the broad gauge system was the better technically. Crampton, unbeknown to the GWR, had the idea of improving standard gauge locomotives so that they could match those of the broad gauge.
Work for conversion to broad gauge of the narrow gauge Gondia- Chanda Fort line started in December 1992, Gondia-Wadsa section was inaugurated on 25 September 1994. Wadsa-Nagbhir section was opened on 20 February 1997, Nagbhir-Chanda Fort section was opened on 13 January 1999 and the Chanda Fort-Ballarshah section was operated from 2 July 1999. The Gondia- Balaghat broad gauge section was opened for traffic on 6 September 2005. The Balaghat-Katangi section was converted to broad gauge in 2010.
The conversion from metre gauge to broad gauge was effected during 1992-93 and completed during September 1998.
Raised platforms on the narrow gauge railways can prevent track gauge conversion to standard gauge or broad gauge.
LSWR trains to London ran southwards through St Davids station, while broad gauge trains to London ran northwards.
Pollachi Railway Junction connects with Palakkad to the west, Coimbatore to the north and Dindigul to the east. Metre to broad gauge conversion on Dindigul line was completed in January 2015. In 2017, the track between Pollachi and Podanur was converted from metre to broad gauge at a cost of .
It was converted to broad gauge in 2006. New broad gauge line from Kaliaganj to Buniadpur (33.10 km) was included in the budget 2010-11. 157.938 ha of land is to be acquired. As of August 2018, project work by Northeast Frontier Railway held up mainly because of paucity of funds.
In 2007 is a break of gauge junction station on Indian Railways. Broad gauge lines go to Munabao and Jodhpur, while a metre gauge line subject to conversion goes to Bhildi.Railway Gazette International Supplement December 2007 p7 Now broad gauge has completed and passenger train has started from 16 October 2010.
Agra Fort Railway Station, is located near Agra Fort, in Rawatpara, Agra. It used to be one of the stations in India that had both broad gauge and metre gauge, until the line to Jaipur was converted to broad gauge. Agra Fort Railway Station comes under the North Central Railways.
The authority decided to make broad gauge railway instead of this narrow gauge. Construction of the new railway is currently underway. In a few days, passengers can enjoy a better railway service here. Now the conversion from narrow gauge to broad gauge is completed and also overhead electrification is done.
The meter gauge train has become history for Hanumangarh because in October 2012 Hanumangarh- Sadulpur meter gauge track closed and is being converted into broad gauge. Hanumangarh to Sri Ganganagar railway track has been converted into broad gauge and presently Three trains are running on this track from Hanumangarh to Sriganganagar.
This is only passenger station falls between – broad gauge section, which was opened for service on 19 June 2015.
Nowadays Railway facility is not available at Puranpur Railway Station as work is in progress for broad gauge line.
In Brazil, post-1927 the São Paulo Railway operated broad-gauge Garratts that ran passenger trains at 70 m.p.h.
Washim was connected to the broad gauge railway network in 2008 when tracks were extended from Purna to Akola.
Kottawa railway station was rebuilt in a new location during the Broad-gauge project of the Kelani Valley line.
The Paralakhemedi Light Railway opened Naupada–Gunupur line in 1900. The line was converted to broad gauge in 2011.
This station started as a meter gauge railway station. After the 1991 gauge conversion it changed to broad gauge.
The station was established in 1862 and was connected by the first electrified broad gauge link from Chennai Central.
The railway station was re-opened on 4 January 2014 after gauge conversion from meter-gauge to broad-gauge.
It operated until December 21, 1926. The C&G; used a broad gauge, similar to other Pennsylvania interurban lines.
The line was added to the New York and Erie Railroad system and converted to the Erie's broad gauge.
The metre-gauge track from New Jaipaiguri to Siliguri town and Siliguri junction was later converted to broad gauge.
Portugal once had hundreds of kilometres of gauge railways. Most of them were closed or converted to broad gauge.
With the conversion from metre gauge to broad gauge, the entire long Egmore-Tambaram- Tiruchirapalli-Dindigul-Madurai sector was completed, broad gauge passenger traffic was initiated in March 2001. The left over conversion work was then completed and the last metre gauge EMU service ran between Tambaram and Egmore on 1 July 2004. Conversion from metre gauge to broad gauge of the Viluppuram–Puducherry branch line was completed in 2004. The Cuddalore Port Junction railway station–Vriddhachalam railway station sector was converted in 2003.
The first narrow gauge line was completed in 1870 from Port Wakefield to Hoyleton but was soon upgraded to broad gauge and extended to Blyth, the station nearest the township of Clare. The first interstate connection was completed in 1887, when the South Australian and Victorian broad gauge railways met at Serviceton. In 1888 a narrow gauge line was opened from Port Pirie to Broken Hill, with a connection at Peterborough to Adelaide. The broad gauge line was completed from Adelaide to Terowie in 1880.
Chittaranjan is well known for Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW), which manufactures mainline electric broad gauge locomotives. This factory commenced production in 1950; and up to 1972, it was involved in the production of broad gauge and meter gauge steam locomotives. Production of electric locomotives commenced in 1963. In addition to steam and electric locomotives, CLW also produced narrow gauge (762 mm) diesel locomotives of the ZDM class, meter gauge (1000 mm) diesel locomotives of the YDM class, and broad gauge hydraulic shunting locomotives of the WDS4 class.
With the development of the broad gauge system and the New Jalpaiguri station, the narrow gauge DHR was extended to New Jalpaiguri. The earlier Siliguri-Kishanganj metre gauge line is now part of the Siliguri-Kishnaganj-Katihar metre gauge line. Part of the metre gauge track runs parallel to the broad gauge track and part of it has a separate route. The Siliguri-Haldibari, part of the original broad gauge Calcutta- Siliguri track via Hardinge Bridge, got delinked from the trunk route because of partition in 1947.
The former metre gauge workshop at Jodhpur now performs periodic overhauling of broad gauge passenger coaches. The former metre gauge diesel shed at Bhagat ki Kothi was converted to broad gauge shed in the 1990s. It houses 133+ electro-motive diesel locos. It is home to WDG-4, WDP-4, WDM-2.
Salisbury Post Office opened around March 1850. Salisbury railway station was built in 1857, and is where the standard gauge line to Crystal Brook diverges from the broad gauge line to Gawler. Until the 1980s, this line was broad gauge. In 1985 Salisbury station was rebuilt as a major STA bus/rail interchange.
The Matale line has a gauge of broad gauge. The line is not electrified. Regular services run on diesel power.
XXXIV, no. 1 (July 4, 1902); page 21.Converting Narrow to Broad Gauge, The Railway Magazine, Sept. 1902; page 249.
Broad gauge railways in 2010 stretched for and electrified railways numbered . By 2010, there were 35 airports and one heliport.
The Amritsar–Pathankot route runs through Batala and Gurdaspur. The wide broad gauge Amritsar-Pathankot line was opened in 1884.
During 2019 ARTC commenced work to progressively remove the broad gauge rail and related infrastructure, retaining standard gauge only throughout.
Birmingham was reached in 1852, at Snow Hill and Wolverhampton at Low Level (the furthest-north broad-gauge station) in 1854. The Bristol and Gloucester Railway had been bought by the Midland Railway in 1846 and converted to standard gauge in 1854, bringing mixed gauge track (with three rails, so that both broad and standard gauge trains could run on it) to Bristol. By the 1860s the gauge war was lost; with the merger of the standard-gauge West Midland Railway into the GWR in 1861 mixed gauge came to Paddington, and by 1869 there was no broad-gauge track north of Oxford. GWR Iron Duke Class broad gauge steam locomotives awaiting scrapping after broad gauge was abolished in 1892.
The ozokerite could be used to produce naphtha fuel for the broad-gauge locomotives. It had previously to be delivered from Baku or the Cheleken Peninsula. As a result of this discovery, the Decauville railway was moved to Naphtha Hill (Neftjanaja Gora). It transported all the fuel for the locomotives of the broad-gauge line.
Australian Railways Historical Society. 1969. pp. 4, 11, 15-16 The broad gauge system was the main focus of Webb rehabilitation scheme. The narrow gauge systems north of Terowie and on the Eyre Peninsula remained untouched, as did the gauge South Eastern division (although it was subsequently converted to broad gauge in the early 1950s).
Pilani is not accessible directly by rail; the nearest stations are Chirawa, , Sadulpur away served by the Northern Western Railway on the Sikar-Loharu Broad Gauge section and Loharu, away in Haryana, which is served by fully broad gauge sections. Pilani is from Jaipur and from Delhi and has a good bus transport system.
Sloane is located on the Victorian Oaklands railway line and as such the railway was constructed to broad gauge. In 2008 a decision was taken to gauge convert the North East railway line from broad gauge to standard gauge. Subsequently it was decided to also convert the Oaklands line. The conversion was completed in 2009.
The new broad gauge track made a detour to connect Osmanabad which was not connected by railway line. The converted broad gauge track from Latur to Osmanabad was commissioned in September 2007 and the converted broad gauge track from Osmanabad-Barshi to Kurduvadi was commissioned in October 2008. Kurduvadi is a railway junction where one major railway track between Wadi and Daund and a branch line track between Latur Road and Miraj intersect. The track from Daund continues to Pune and Mumbai towards west and to Manmad towards north-northwest.
Palakkad Junction Palakkad is the HQ of the Palakkad Railway Division of Southern Railway Zone. The city is served by two railway stations - Palakkad Junction is a broad gauge railway junction (located at Olavakkode, about 4 km from Municipal bus stand) and Palakkad Town railway station located in the heart of the Palakkad city. The cities of Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Erode, Salem, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Mangalore, Kozhikode and Ernakulam are connected by the broad gauge line. Train services to Pollachi, Dindigul and Madurai are through the broad gauge line through Palakkad Town station.
Some mountain railways such as the Lumding–Badarpur section have been converted to broad gauge, which is the nationwide standard, while some railways such as the Kangra Valley Railway are in the process of being converted to broad gauge. Some mountain railways, such as the Jammu–Baramulla line, are currently under construction, and others are in the planning stage, such as the Srinagar–Leh line, the Bilaspur–Leh line, the Jammu–Poonch line, and the Chota Char Dham Railway. All the mountain railways constructed in recent times use broad gauge.
The Great Western Railway adopted the broad gauge of at the outset, while competing railway companies adopted the gauge of , which later became standard gauge. As the railway companies sought to expand commercially and geographically, they wished to dominate areas of the country, hoping to exclude their competitors. The networks polarised into groups of broad gauge companies and of narrow gauge companies. The term narrow gauge at the time referred to the as well as any smaller size, all narrow relative to the broad gauge (whereas today it refers only to gauges strictly smaller than ).
The Haldibari–New Jalpaiguri line has gone through two successive gauge changes. As most other railway tracks in the area were metre gauge, the line was converted from broad gauge to metre gauge in 1949. Then in 1960s when broad gauge was introduced in the area, the line was converted back to broad gauge and connected to the new station at New Jalpaiguri. The metre gauge branch line from Malbazar in Jalpaiguri district to Changrabandha in Cooch Behar district is now an isolated section, with no service, as per the railway time table.
In about 1860, the Bristol and Exeter Railway converted five locomotives to gauge, and later converted them back again. Also in the 19th century, in the United States, some broad gauge locomotives were designed for easy conversion to gauge. In the 20th century, in Victoria station, London, some broad gauge locomotive classes of the Great Western Railway were designed for easy conversion to a narrower gauge. Between 1922 and 1949, five South Australian Railways T class narrow gauge locomotives were converted to Tx-class broad gauge, and later back again.
Much infrastructure was destroyed during the war and as a consequence many station buildings are in the neo-classicist style (see Stalinist architecture) having been rebuilt in the post war years. Soviet planning placed the emphasis on broad gauge track and much freight formerly transported on narrow gauge lines was moved by road, lines were also converted to broad gauge. Starting in 1957, steam locomotives began to be replaced by diesel locomotives. Though the narrow gauge lines were closed the broad gauge sections prospered: in 1945 passenger numbers were 12.2 million, freight volumes 4.3million tonnes.
Just like the broad gauge railways, the narrow gauge lines required covered vans. The vast majority of those were louvre vans.
Broad Gauge conversion from Lucknow to Sitapur and Mailani has been completed and Lucknow to Sitapur commenced on 09-Jan-2019.
Harman, Fred W. (no date shown). The Locomotives Built By Manning Wardle & Company - Volume 3 - Broad Gauge & Works List. Century Locoprints.
In 1925, it was merged with East Indian Railway Company. System mileage was of wide broad gauge of wide metre gauge.
In 2010 Broad-gauge railways and electrified railways stretched for and respectively. By 2010, there were 35 airports and one heliport.
However many miniature railways use this type of gauge. Broad gauge railways use a track gauge greater than . Examples include , and .
These locomotives are very similar to G22CW, which are standard or broad gauge, and to GM GT22 Series, which are turbocharged.
Lakhimpur city is from the state capital Lucknow. It can be easily reached by train (Broad gauge) or UPSRTC Bus services.
The long wide metre gauge Salem-Bangalore line was opened in 1969. It was converted to wide broad gauge in 1997.
Bangladesh Railway Class 6200 is a class of broad-gauge (1,676 mm) diesel- electric locomotive of Bangladesh, operated by Bangladesh Railway.
The section from Mamonovo (Heiligenbeil) until shortly before Kaliningrad has a main track in Russian broad gauge and formerly had a standard gauge track. While the broad gauge track follows the traditional route from the west to Kaliningrad South Station (formerly Königsberg Hauptbahnhof), the other track diverted south around the city and reached the station from the east.
Rajputana State Railway opened the Delhi-Bandikui wide metre gauge line in 1874, extended it to Ajmer in 1875 and to Ahmedabad in 1881. The Delhi-Ajmer metre gauge line was converted to wide broad gauge in 1994. The Ahmedabad- Ajmer sector was fully converted to broad gauge in 1997 – parts of it were converted earlier.
Bangladesh Railways uses a mix of broad gauge and metre gauge. The broad gauge network is primarily located to the west of the Jamuna River, while the metre gauge network is primarily located to its east. The Jamuna Bridge is a mixed- use bridge that contains a dual gauge connection across the river linking both networks.
On 12 January 2018, the Barddhaman to Katwa line was totally converted to electrified broad gauge from narrow gauge with two phases—Phase-I Barddhaman to Balgona and Phase-II Balgona To Katwa began to be converted beginning on 30 May 2012. Currently, the network has a 25 kV overhead catenary electrification system, with Indian broad gauge tracks.
On the return direction the train leaves Ernakulam Junction at 17:15 and reached Trivandrum Central by 21:30. In 1976 the tracks were converted to broad gauge and the broad gauge train was introduced. The train had a green livery initially. The train was later extended to Shoranur after some years and timings were also revised.
The station is situated on the Delhi –Gorakhpur-Raxaul- Muzaffarpur-Kolkata lines.Jagran NewsBhaskar News Earlier, all tracks were metre gauge but most have been converted to 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge. After the completion of the gauge conversion from Darbhanga to Raxaul via Sitamarhi, another broad gauge route to Raxaul became available from March 2014.
The Assam Rail Link project was taken up on 26 January 1948 to construct a metre-gauge railway linking Fakiragram with Kishanganj in Bihar via Alipurduar. The first train ran on the route on 26 January 1950. The route was converted to broad gauge in 2003–2006. Now all the railway tracks in Alipurduar city are broad gauge.
An autorickshaw Khichan is a desert village located 150 km west of Jodhpur city. The nearest town is Phalodi, which is 3.4 km away. Phalodi is a railway station on the broad gauge line and connects all important towns in Rajasthan. Phalodi Railway station lies on the broad gauge line of the Delhi- Jaisalmer and Bikaner - Jaisalmer train route.
Indian Railways is converting its entire network (except heritage routes) to broad gauge to enhance viability. New and converted broad gauge tracks are being introduced at the rate of 7.7 km per day. IR has projected completion date of the same till 2022.Indian narrow gauge shrinks further under Project Unigauge, The Railway Magazine, March 2017.
Nagbhid town is served by Nagbhir Junction railway station. Nagpur-Nagbhir is a narrow gauge route of 110 km which connects to Gondia- Balharshah route at Nagbhir Junction railway station. Gondia- Balharshah line was converted to broad gauge in 1999. Conversion to broad gauge of Nagpur-Nagbhir line has been approved and is expected to commence soon.
The ARTC does not control any of the narrow gauge track in Queensland or South Australia, nor broad gauge track in Victoria. However it does control the Albion to Jacana freight line which has been partially converted to dual gauge for use as a passing lane, but is considered a main line on the broad gauge network.
The station was main meter gauge junction till 2005, but after the construction of the broad gauge track from Rewari and Narnaul in the north to Phulera and Ajmer in the south, it is operational as an important BG junction now. The track from Churu to Jaipur via Sikar & Ringas has been converted to broad gauge. .
The Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway built the broad gauge railway line from Totnes to Buckfastleigh and Ashburton in Devon, England.
The Bristol and Exeter Railway operated 28 standard gauge locomotives. Five of these spent a short while working as broad gauge locomotives.
The Paralakhemedi Light Railway opened the Naupada-Gunupur line between 1900 and 1931. The line was converted to broad gauge in 2011.
The railway tracks from Guwahati to Lumding and from Chaparmukh to Haibargaon were upgraded from metre gauge to broad gauge in 1994.
Previously a competing night train service called Tren Estrella operated within Spain ; this used traditional carriages on conventional Spanish (broad gauge) tracks.
The Bardhaman-Katwa line after conversion from narrow gauge to electrified broad gauge was opened to the public on 12 January 2018.
Bijapur is a Broad gauge station of the South Western Railways with direct train connections to Bangalore, Mumbai, Hubli, Solapur and Shirdi.
The track is Broad gauge. The line is electrified between Tallinn and Aegviidu using overhead lines with 3 kV DC railway electrification.
Gauge conversion of Maliya–Miyana section was taken up in 1996-97. Conversion to broad gauge was completed in the year 2001.
Although broad gauge is quite rare on lighter railways and street tramways worldwide, almost all tramways in ex-USSR are broad gauge (according to terminology in use in these countries, gauges narrower than are considered to be narrow). Many tramway networks initially built to narrow gauges ( or ) were converted to broad gauge. As of 2015, only a few out of more than sixty tram systems in Russia are not broad gauge: in Kaliningrad and Pyatigorsk, in Rostov-on-Don; there are also two tram systems in and around YevpatoriaYevpatoria is located in Crimea, a territory disputed between Ukraine (as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) and Russia (as the Republic of Crimea) since the March 2014 Crimean status referendum that use gauge. The Helsinki trams and Liepāja trams also use , and the Tallinn trams use .
The goods shed has been converted to a railway museum and this is the home of Tiny the last remaining broad gauge locomotive.
The -long Jainagar–Darbhanga–Narkatiaganj line and Sakri–Laukaha Bazar–Nirmali line were being converted from metre to broad gauge in 2011–2012.
The workshops at Newton Abbot played a part in converting broad gauge locomotives, carriages and wagons to standard gauge over the following months.
Amla Junction is on broad gauge lines which connects to Itarsi in the north, Nagpur in the southeast and Chhindwara in the east.
The railway line through Caldicot was built as the broad gauge South Wales Railway in 1850, although the nearest station was at Portskewett, two miles to the east. In 1861 a private siding was opened to serve the Caldicot Iron & Wire Works, from 1880 the Severn Tinplate Works, on what is now the industrial estate on the Sudbrook road, south of the castle. In typical broad gauge fashion, these works lines used two short hand-worked turntables to move wagons between the lines, rather than points. In 1872, the South Wales Railway was re-gauged from broad gauge to standard gauge.
Kinwat has a railway station on the Mudkhed-Adilabad Meter Gauge (Now Broad Gauge) Section; previously, the Hyderabad (HYB) Division of the South Central Railway (SCR). After Divisional adjustments in 2003, which saw the bifurcation of Hyderabad Division, Kinwat is now under the Nanded (NED) Division of the SCR. The Mudkhed-Adilabad Meter Gauge Section has since then converted into Broad Gauge. Now the Broad Gauge, linking Kinwat to most of the major cities in India like Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Nagpur and Pune has created benefits for the citizens as it allows new trains to pass the station.
The standard gauge tracks lead to a 28 m turntable (Google Earth) north of the station while the wide gauge tracks have a triangle south of the station to turn locomotives. A new orange coloured (Google Earth) depot building north of the station provides maintenance for the standard gauge diesel locos that use the Bam route. This supplements a small broad gauge shed at the south end of the station where the station's broad gauge shunter is maintained. A transfer shed is situated south of the level crossing but only appears to be served by the broad gauge tracks.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a -wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the -wide broad gauge Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop. The long -wide narrow gauge Burdwan–Katwa Railway was opened in 1915 as part of Mc Leod's Light Railways, taken over by Eastern Railway in 1966 and closed in 2010. The long -wide narrow gauge Ahmedpur–Katwa Railway was opened in 1917 as part of Mc Leod's Light Railways and taken over by Eastern Railway in 1966. It was closed in 2013 for conversion to -wide broad gauge and electrification.
Nevertheless the line was opened throughout in 1852. It quickly became the springboard for the anticipated expansion to the Lancashire industrial areas. However the broad gauge was not permitted to be extended north of Wolverhampton, and this proved to be the seed of the end of the broad gauge. The route became an important corridor for express passenger trains and heavy freight flows.
Brazil has a large rail network, mostly metre gauge, with some broad gauge. It runs some of the heaviest iron ore trains in the world on its metre gauge network. Argentina have Indian gauge networks in the south and metre gauge networks in the north. The metre gauge networks are connected at one point, but there has never been a broad gauge connection.
A metre gauge line from Luni to Shadipalli, in Sind, was built across the Thar desert in 1902 by Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway and the line from Shadipalli to Hyderabad (now in Pakistan) was regauged. The Luni-Barmer- Munabao section was converted to wide broad gauge in 2004. The Jodhpur-Luni- Marwar Junction section was converted to broad gauge in early 2000s.
In the mid 1960s, the first -wide broad gauge line was laid in the area from New Jalpaiguri to Jogihopa via New Bongaigaon. The Fakiragram–Dhubri line was opened in September 2010 after conversion to broad gauge. Up to the sixties there was a railway link from Cooch Behar to Dhubri via Golokganj. It was then known as the Assam Line Railway Service.
Mysore Junction railway station (officially Mysuru Junction railway station) (station code: MYS) is a railway station on Mysore-Bangalore railway line serving the city of Mysore, Karnataka, India. Previously Mysore was connected to Bangalore by a single line meter gauge. It was later converted into non- electrified broad-gauge line, which has now been converted to double line electrified broad gauge.
Various railway track gauges 1,520 mm broad gauge 1,435 mm standard gauge Georgia and Azerbaijan both use the Russian broad gauge of , and the existing section of railway line (Akhalkalaki–Tbilisi–Baku) will not be modified.Станцию Ахалкалаки в Грузии спроектируют в Азербайджане (Georgia's Akhalkalaki station will be designed by an Azerbaijani firm). Interfax, 17 November 2009. The new tracks, i.e.
The Gondia-Balaghat section narrow gauge section was closed from January 2003 for conversion to broad gauge. It was opened for traffic on 6 September 2005. The route from Balaghat to Katangi was converted from narrow gauge to broad gauge in 2010 and the route from Katangi to Tirodi is now under conversion. The Gondia-Jabalpur gauge conversion project is an approved project.
Two rather more conventional 2-4-0 express locomotives were turned out in 1888 and ran on the broad gauge. They were similar to the standard gauge 3206 Class Barnum's turned out in 1889 but with large in driving wheels. Following the abolition of the broad gauge in 1892 they were renewed, reappearing as standard gauge 4-4-0 locomotives in 1894.
The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway opened the broad gauge line from Varanasi to Lucknow in 1872. The line was extended to Faizabad with the Faizabad Loop. Then Jaunpur Junction was built. The Curzon Bridge across the Ganges was opened in 1905 by the East Indian Railway Company and the broad gauge Allahabad-Faizabad line was possibly opened the same year.
The Great Western Railway in Britain was originally a broad gauge line. After a "gauge war", a track gauge conversion was made. A dual gauge system was easily installed as the gauges were well separated and the line had wooden sleepers. A short section of broad gauge and remains at the Great Western Society site at Didcot as a demonstration line.
The railway station of Jabalpur is located on broad gauge line and comes under "A" category station and is in top100 booking stations. It consists of 6 broad gauge platforms . The station is also enhanced with escalators and lifts on the platform for better convenience. The station is all set to get modified with amenities like malls and hotels in station premise.
Its condition declined after 1979, when the US government handed over control to the government of Panama. Except for dedicated railroad sections, such as the concrete factory, the broad gauge was used. This gauge was also used for the locomotives along the locks ("mules"). When the gauge for the railroad was changed in 2001, the mules kept the broad gauge.
The metre gauge line has been converted into broad gauge during 1929. On September 1929, the entire stretch of has been completely converted into broad gauge in just 5 hours of time. The first broadguage train from Erode Junction reached Tiruchirappalli Junction, exactly 5hours after the reach of last meter gauge train.. The route has been electrified in February 2018.
Until 20 May 1892, when the then GWR lines were converted from the broad gauge, the shed was used to transfer goods between broad gauge wagons and the standard gauge wagons used by the London and South Western Railway to Yeovil and Barnstaple. Passing over the wide Red Cow level crossing, the line comes to Exeter St Davids railway station.
The platforms are not well sheltered. It lacks many facilities including water and sanitation. Signalling work in GRI-MJ & MJ-RN section of Ajmer Division on NWR Laying and linking of Broad gauge main line etc in connection with Guriya - Marwar Jn. BG Patch Doubling ProjectChronology of railways in India, Part 3 (1900 - 1947) It was converted to wide broad gauge in 1997.
Tracks at Rawalpindi station Pakistan Railways owns of track. All are (broad gauge), except for some industrial lines. The broad-gauge track axle load limit is 22.86 tonnes, except for the Rohri-Chaman Line (limit 17.78 tonnes) and Quetta-Taftan Line (limit 17.27 tonnes). The maximum speed on most lines is , but upgraded sections of the Karachi-Peshawar Line allow speeds up to .
It is the second stoppage for trains in Dhaka, after the Kamalapur railway station. Trains come from India and Locally Noakhali, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Comilla, and many important towns and cities. Its rail tracks are Dual gauge which provide both Meter gauge and Broad gauge. Therefore, Broad gauge trains from Rajshahi, Khulna and the Maitree Express can stop at that station easily.
Sardarshahr is on the Sri Ganganagar Kishangarh mega highway. There is a broad gauge rail line starting from railway station which gets junctioned at .
The Assam Mail originally ran from Sealdah to Santahar by broad gauge, and onwards by metre gauge from Santahar to Guwahati (then spelt Gauhati).
Secunderabad division was formed on 2 October 1966. It had broad gauge and meter gauge, later, meter gauge was a part of Hyderabad division.
The Gadag-Hotgi section was opened in 1884 and the Hotgi-Solapur section in 1887. The line was converted to broad gauge in 2008.
Hathras lies 9 km away in the west and is served by Hathras City railway station on the broad gauge (previously metre gauge) line.
It has four branchings of broad gauge lines to Beawar in South-west, Chittorgarh Junction in South, Phulera Junction in North and in West.
In the seventies a new broad gauge line was laid between New Jalpaiguri and Guwahati. The entire Barauni-Katihar-Guwahati line is being electrified.
The platform is clean and good. The station is located on the way to Gorakhpur from Gonda via broad gauge of North Eastern Railway.
The Coimbatore–Mettupalayam metre gauge line was opened to traffic in 1873. The Coimbatore–Mettupalayam section was converted to broad gauge in early 2000s.
Arjuni railway station connects to Gondia-Balharshah Electric BG Line (280 km Broad gauge) with stoppage of all types of Express and Passenger trains.
It used to be served by a narrow gauge branchline of the national railway network, part of which is being rebuilt to broad gauge.
There is a station at Dewanhat on the broad gauge Alipurduar- Bamanhat branch line. The nearest airport, Cooch Behar Airport , is 13 km away.
One express train till 30 September 2014 used to run between Lumding and Agartala daily. The meter gauge track is converted to broad gauge.
Tanakpur railway station is a small railway station in Champawat district, Uttarakhand. Its code is TPU. It serves Tanakpur city. Tanakpur Now Broad gauge.
In 1892 the broad gauge was abandoned and the locomotives were all converted to standard gauge tender locomotives, becoming a part of the 3201 Class.
Large scale standardisation of Australia's broad gauge rail network did not get underway until 1995, nearly thirty years after the withdrawal of the N class.
Khirkiya has a broad gauge railway connectivity on the Itarsi - Khandwa line and falls in the West Central Railway Zone under Bhopal Division of railways.
It is located at 7 m above sea level and has one platform. As of 2016, single Broad Gauge railway line exists at this station.
All of these lines were prepared for conversion from narrow to broad gauge in the mid-1920s, with the switch made on 1 August 1927.
It was converted to broad gauge in 2006. State Highway No. 10A, running from Buniadpur to Raiganj passes through Hemtabad village and Hemtabad CD Block.
A bogie exchange station in the port of Mukran serves train ferries that go to and from Russia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which have broad gauge.
All stations on the line are unattended and have only very basic passenger waiting facilities. The line is 5.5 kilometres long and broad gauge (1600mm).
Guntur–Tenali section, a part of Guntur-Repalle broad gauge project was opened in 1916, which was then owned by Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway.
The broad gauge Viluppuram-Puducherry line was electrified in 2006. The broad gauge Viluppuram-Tiruchirapalli sector was electrified in 2010. New electrification survey in 2012–13 had been sanctioned in the Railway budget for the Karaikkal/Karaikkal port-Thiruvarur-Thanjavur-Tiruchchirappalli and Nagapattinam-Velankkani sectors. The execution of Electrification of Villupuram–Cuddalore Port–Mayiladuturai-Kumbakonam–Thanjavur and Mayiladuturai –Thiruvarur has been given to Rail Vikas Nigam Limited.
Rajputana State Railway opened the Delhi-Bandikui wide metre gauge line in 1874, extended it to Ajmer in 1875 and to Ahmedabad in 1881. The Delhi-Ajmer metre gauge line was converted to wide broad gauge in 1994. The Ahmedabad-Ajmer sector was fully converted to broad gauge in 1997. Railway electrification work is in the process in the Rewari-Alwar-Bandikui-Jaipur-Palanpur-Ahmedabad sector.
Bangladesh Railway Class 6100 (BEM 20) is a class of broad-gauge diesel- electric locomotives owned by Bangladesh Railway. They are the second broad- gauge diesel locomotives of Bangladesh after Class 6000. They are similar to Class 6000 locomotives made by ALCo. They were the most powerful locomotives of Bangladesh of that time, along with Class 6000, before the arrival of Class 6300 and Class 6400.
The 1.8 km long Hardinge Bridge across the Padma came up in 1912. In 1926 the metre- gauge section north of the bridge was converted to broad gauge, and so the entire Calcutta – Siliguri route became broad-gauge. The route thus ran: Sealdah–Ranaghat–Bheramara–Hardinge Bridge–Iswardi–Santahar–Hili–Parabtipur–Nilphamari-Haldibari- Jalpaiguri–Siliguri. With the partition of India, this track got trisected.
It was converted to broad gauge in 2006. New broad gauge lines – Gazole-Itahar (27.20 km), Itahar-Raiganj (22.16 km) and Itahar-Buniadpur (27.095 km) – as a material modification of the Eklakhi- Balurghat project (commissioned in 2004) was included in the budget 1983–84. Initial work for the lines has been taken up by Northeast Frontier Railway. 431.973 ha of land is to be acquired.
The 1.8 km-long Hardinge Bridge across the Padma came up in 1912. In 1926 the metre-gauge section north of the bridge was converted to broad gauge, and so the entire Calcutta–Siliguri route became broad gauge. The route thus ran: Sealdah–Ranaghat–Bheramara–Hardinge Bridge–Iswardi–Santahar–Hili–Parabtipur–Nilphamari–Haldibari-Jalpaiguri- Siliguri. With the partition of India, this track got trisected.
The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway opened the wide broad gauge line from Varanasi to Lucknow in 1872. The line was extended to Faizabad as ‘Faizabad Loop’. The Curzon Bridge across the Ganges was opened in 1905 by the East Indian Railway Company and the wide broad gauge Allahabad- Faizabad line was possibly opened the same year. It was operated by the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway.
Accordingly, new standard-gauge and broad-gauge trains for the use of the Imperial Court were constructed. The new broad-gauge Imperial Train for domestic travel became ready in time for the coronation of Nicholas II in 1896. Initially the train consisted of 7 cars, purpose-built at the Aleksandrovsky Railway Factory in St Petersburg. Later, the size of the train was increased to 10 cars.
Rail: This town lies on Broad Gauge (Lucknow Division of North-Eastern railway) connecting Lucknow and Mailani. The Line was converted from Meter Gauge to Broad Gauge in February 2020. There are direct trains to Lucknow, Sitapur, Lakhimpur and Gorakhpur. Road: Gola Gokaran Nath can be reached directly from Lucknow [], Bareilly [], Pilibhit [], Shahjahanpur [] The town is well connected through National & State Highways passing through it.
The converted broad gauge track was commissioned in the last quarter of 2010 for freight trains and February 2011 for passenger trains. Now trains run on the broad gauge track from Miraj to Kurduvadi. These include trains from Miraj to Parbhani and from Kolhapur to Solapur via Miraj. The converted Miraj-Kurduvadi railway line has shortened the railway distance between Kolhapur, Solapur and Parbhani.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 10 passenger trains stop at Noapara Mahishasur railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 9 passenger trains stop at Mahipal railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 16 local trains stop at Ahiran railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 18 passenger trains stop at Gankar railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 18 passenger trains stop at Manigram railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 11 local trains stop at Dahapara Dham railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 12 trains stop at Sankopara railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa- Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 6 passenger trains stop at Ballalpur railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa- Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 12 local trains stop at Basudebpur railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa- Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 16 local, passenger trains stop at Sujnipara railway station.
Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line (, LHS), is the longest broad gauge railway line in Poland. Except for this line and a few very short stretches near border crossings, Poland uses standard gauge. The single-track line runs for almost 400 km from the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing just east of Hrubieszów to Sławków Południowy (near Katowice). It is used only for freight, mainly iron ore and coal.
From 1884 until 2011, the bridge had one track in , to comply with New South Wales standard gauge; and the second track in , to complex with Victorian broad gauge. In 2011 the Victorian broad gauge track was replaced with standard gauge. It is also the first to have two spans, the earlier bridges having one, three or four spans. The bridge now carries a double-track railway.
Broad-gauge conversion work in the Lumding-Silchar segment was completed in March 2015. Gauge conversion work up to Agartala was completed by the end of March 2016, and railway traffic between Agartala and Silchar began. During the laying of rail lines from Kumarghat to Agartala, provisions were kept for swiftly converting it to broad gauge. Presently, local trains from Agartala to Dharmanagar and Silchar are functional.
In 1879, the Clevedon branch was converted to standard gauge. This followed a scheme throughout the GWR to convert its tracks from broad gauge to mixed gauge. The last GWR broad-gauge train operated on 20 May 1892, after which all tracks were converted to standard gauge. The conversion of the Clevedon line coincided with the opening of an engine shed for branch traffic.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a -wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the -wide broad gauge Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of the area completely changed. The rail distance between Berhampore and Sealdah is approximately 205 km.
Among them, as no narrow–gauge railroads are active, so the narrow–gauge locos are not used anymore. As of 2020, total 465 meter–gauge and broad–gauge diesel locos (excluding the old 3000 series) have been imported in Bangladesh. Most of them are diesel–electric, but 80 locos are diesel–hydraulic. Among the 465 locos, 338 are meter–gauge and 127 are broad–gauge.
The 1.8 km long Hardinge Bridge across the Padma came up in 1912. In 1926 the metre-gauge section north of the bridge was converted to broad gauge, and so the entire Calcutta–Siliguri route became broad-gauge. The route thus ran: Sealdah–Ranaghat–Bheramara–Hardinge Bridge–Iswardi–Santahar–Hili–Parabtipur–Nilphamari–Haldibari–Jalpaiguri–Siliguri. With the partition of India, this track got trisected.
The 12917 / 12918 Gujarat Sampark Kranti Express is one of the Sampark Kranti Expresses, a train on India's broad gauge network, connecting Ahmedabad (code: ADI) and Delhi Hazrat Nizamuddin (code: NZM), a distance of approximately 1085 km. The train runs on Indian Railways broad gauge track network and was introduced in 2008 to provide quicker connectivity from India's capital New Delhi to locations in Gujarat.
The metre gauge Hisar-Sadulpur link was converted to broad gauge in 2009. In 2013, track doubling and electrification of Hisar-Rewari track via Hansi and Bhiwani commenced, which was completed in 2016. In 2017, the Hisar-Bhatinda via Sirsa electrification was under progress. In 1911–13, the broad gauge Hisar-Sadalpur line connecting Hisar with Jodhpur–Bathinda line at Sadulpur (Rajgarh) in Rajasthan was built.
The battle to persuade or coerce that choice became very intense, and became referred to as "the gauge wars". As passenger and freight transport between the two areas became increasingly important, the difficulty of moving from one gauge to the other—the break of gauge—became more prominent and more objectionable. In 1845 a Royal Commission on Railway Gauges was created to look into the growing problem, and this led to the Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846, which forbade the construction of broad gauge lines unconnected with the broad gauge network. The broad gauge network was eventually converted—a progressive process completed in 1892, called gauge conversion.
In 1995, the Adelaide to Wolseley line was converted from broad gauge (1600mm) to standard gauge (1435 mm) ruling out any restoration of local trains to Bridgewater or beyond, and it disconnected a number of the South Australian country broad gauge services from Adelaide. Between Goodwood and Belair, the former double track route became two parallel single lines, one broad gauge for Adelaide Metro suburban services, the other standard gauge freight services.D3 Wolseley to Mile End Australian Rail Track Corporation Along with this conversion, stations on the Belair line at Mile End Goods, Millswood, Hawthorn and Clapham closed. The other Belair line stations each had one platform closed.
By September 2006, the second metre gauge track from Sarai Rohilla to Rewari was also converted to broad gauge and all metre gauge trains stopped operating between Rewari and Sarai Rohilla (though the converted track was "officially" dedicated to the nation by politicians only in October 2007). Rewari thus became the terminus of metre gauge trains for the next three years. For example, the train from Bikaner to Delhi ran on metre gauge track up to Rewari and then a connecting train ran on broad gauge track from Rewari to Delhi junction. All metre gauge railway tracks from Rewari were converted to broad gauge by the end of 2010.
Great Western Railway broad-gauge steam locomotives awaiting scrapping in 1892 after the conversion of the tracks to . A replica GWR Firefly Class broad gauge steam locomotive, with a preserved, standard-gauge GWR railcar, Didcot Railway Centre, 2009 In Great Britain broad gauge was first used in Scotland for the Dundee and Arbroath Railway (1836-1847) and the Arbroath and Forfar Railway (1838-1848). Both short and isolated lines, they were built in . The lines were subsequently converted to standard gauge and connected to the emerging Scottish rail network. The Great Western Railway, was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, in 1838, with a gauge of , and retained this gauge until 1892.
The South Wales Railway was a broad gauge trunk line and was to connect the area in to the network of the Great Western Railway, with through trains to London. A broad gauge ally of the South Wales Railway, the Vale of Neath Railway, ran from Neath over the watershed near Hirwain (now spelt Hirwaun) to Aberdare. Aberdare became the centre of a huge production of high quality coal. However the use of the broad gauge was a mixed blessing, and transits between Aberdare or Merthyr and Cardiff on that system via Neath involved a considerable excess mileage compared with rival, narrow (standard) gauge routes.
In the early 1960s, when Farakka Barrage was being constructed, a far reaching change was made. Indian Railways constructed a new broad-gauge rail link from south Bengal. New Jalpaiguri, a new broad gauge station was built south of Siliguri Town. While a new line was built from Tildanga station in the B.B loop line to Farakka Ghat on the South bank of Ganges by 1958, a long wide broad gauge new line was constructed from Khejuria Ghat (near present day Chamagram station), on the north bank of the Ganga to Malda Town by 1959 and was further extended to meet Barsoi junction by 1962.
The West Cornwall Railway Act included a clause that it would be converted to broad gauge once it had been connected to another broad gauge line, but the company could not raise the funds to do so. The line was sold to the Great Western Railway and its "Associated Companies" (the Bristol and Exeter Railway and South Devon Railway) on 1 January 1866. The new owners quickly converted the line to mixed gauge using three rails so that both broad and "narrow" trains could operate. Broad gauge goods trains started running in November that year, with through passenger trains running to London Paddington from 1 March 1867.
From inner Melbourne access to the line is via the South Kensington–West Footscray freight line under Footscray station. The main line runs as dual gauge from Tottenham Junction on the North East standard gauge line, crosses the suburban Sunbury line on a bridge, until it reaches Brooklyn where a single broad gauge from Sunshine station joins. From here parallel broad and dual gauge tracks run to Newport, where they merge and run behind Newport station, with the broad gauge joining the Werribee line and the standard gauge continuing as the Western standard gauge line alongside. Standard gauge in blue, dual gauge in green, broad gauge in red.
Conversion of metre gauge to broad gauge started in 1991. The Delhi-Rewari railway line had double metre gauge tracks and one of the tracks was converted to broad gauge in December 1994 as a part of conversion of Ajmer-Delhi line.IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: IR History: Part 5 Ajmer-Delhi MG railway line converted to BG Within a few years, both the tracks from Sarai Rohilla to Delhi railway station were converted to broad gauge and all metre gauge trains stopped operating from Delhi station. As a result of this, all the metre gauge trains terminated and started from Sarai Rohilla which became a railway terminus.
Second, a length of broad gauge track from Jamtoil to parbatipur was to be converted to dual gauge. This made Joydebpur, a dual gauge railway station.
The remainder of the platforms are solely broad gauge. A motorail dock is located at the northern end of the platform, with standard gauge access only.
As of 2016, an electrified double broad gauge railway line exists and at this station, 54 trains stop. Bhopal Airport is at distance of 75 kilometers.
Most railways in Europe use the standard gauge of . Some countries use broad gauge, of which there are three types. Narrow gauges are also in use.
The Sarmiento line is a broad gauge commuter rail service in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, run by the state-owned Trenes Argentinos since 11 September 2013.
The Chatham line station had eight platforms, five of which were of mixed gauge, shared by broad-gauge trains of the GWR from Windsor via Southall.
The Sengkang-Punggol LRT and Changi Airport Skytrain use a 1,880mm broad gauge guideway while the Bukit Panjang LRT line relies on a central guide rail.
Kangra Valley Railway is a 164 km long narrow gauge railway line that connects the valley with Pathankot, the nearest railhead on broad gauge railway network.
The station building of the old Budge Budge Railway station In , the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Budge Budge.
Tavistock was an important town lying to the north of Plymouth, and after considerable parliamentary struggles, the South Devon and Tavistock Railway was authorised in the 1854 session of Parliament to build its broad gauge line from a junction east of Laira to Tavistock. It opened that line on 22 June 1859; it was leased to, and worked by the South Devon Railway until it was purchased by them, effective from July 1865. The gauge wars were the struggle for possession of territory between railway companies that used the broad gauge and the standard gauge respectively; the SDR used the broad gauge and was allied with (and exchanged traffic with) other broad gauge lines. In 1861 narrow gauge interests sought to penetrate into north Devon and north Cornwall, and as a defensive measure the SDR promoted an extension of the Tavistock line to Launceston.
Most of the buildings were demolished. The company had a siding of the broad gauge () Gawler tramway, which connected to the main railway near Gawler railway station.
The long Rangia–Murkongselek line is being converted from -wide metre gauge to -wide broad gauge. As of 2013, the work is expected to be completed soon.
The bridge has been rebuilt and the track laid again as broad gauge. Dhubri-New Jalpaiguri Inter-city Express via Alipurduar Jn was introduced in February 2012.
The Craigieburn-bound line was slewed to the west to permit an island platform to be built between the two tracks of the broad gauge main line.
Just like the broad gauge railways, the narrow gauge lines required open and flat wagons for general goods. Over two hundred were constructed between 1898 and 1914.
Tenali–Repalle branch line, a part of Guntur-Repalle broad gauge project was opened in January 1916, which was then owned by Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway.
Nadiapur railway station became operation in 2008 with the meter gauge line from Lumding to Agartala but later in 2016 entire section converted into broad gauge line.
A new line which connects Aalo to Silapathar through broad gauge railway was proposed and the survey has already been completed and forwarded to the railway board.
Panisagar railway station became operation in 2008 with the meter gauge line from Lumding to Agartala but later in 2016 entire section converted into broad gauge line.
Mungiakami railway station became operation in 2008 with the meter gauge line from Lumding to Agartala but later in 2016 entire section converted into broad gauge line.
Churaibari railway station became operation in 2008 with the meter gauge line from Lumding to Agartala but later in 2016 entire section converted into broad gauge line.
Jirania railway station became operation in 2008 with the meter gauge line from Lumding to Agartala but later in 2016 entire section converted into broad gauge line.
The district is linked with broad gauge Rail of North Eastern Railway. It is connected to Patna, Bihar. The Town is a halt for around 4 trains.
Teliamura railway station became operation in 2008 with the meter gauge line from Lumding to Agartala but later in 2016 entire section converted into broad gauge line.
In 1926 the metre-gauge section north of the bridge was converted to broad gauge, and so the entire Calcutta - Siliguri route became broad-gauge. Parbatipur came up as a station on the Calcutta-Siliguri route. Once Parbatipur came up as a railway station on the Chilahati-Parbatipur-Santahar-Darshana Line in 1876, it became a centre of further railway development. There were two developments, one eastward and the other westward.
Palsana comes under the territory of Northern Western Railway, and is served by Palsana railway station. Recently from the beginning of September, 2012 Northern Western Railway started gauge conversion of the Sikar-Loharu line section into the broad gauge section. It is expected that it will be completed till March, 2013. As of now Sikar city is connected through broad gauge railway line section to, Jaipur, Loharu, Rewari, Churu, Jhunjhunu.
The Kollam Junction -Punalur metre gauge railway line to broad gauge conversion works foundation stone was laid in 1998 at Punalur. Services on the Punalur-Kollam metre gauge section were withdrawn on 1 May 2007, to facilitate the gauge conversion work. The gauge conversion took almost 11 years to complete after the foundation stone was laid. The 44 km line was converted to broad gauge and inaugurated on 10 May 2010.
The section through Bucks had a third rail laid on 1 October 1861 allowing both standard and broad gauge trains to run. The broad gauge was removed throughout the country in 1892. The line through Buckinghamshire was quadrupled in late 19th century. The path of the Buckinghamshire Railway, known as the Varsity line, today eventually linked Oxford and Cambridge, the section between Bedford and Cambridge opened in 1862.
Rajputana State Railway opened the Delhi-Bandikui wide metre gauge line in 1874, extended it to Ajmer in 1875 and to Ahmedabad in 1881. The Delhi-Ajmer line was converted to wide broad gauge in 1994. The Ajmer-Ahmedabad line was converted to wide broad gauge in 1997. Railway electrification work is in the process in the Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Rewari and Rewari-Alwar-Bandikui-Jaipur- Palanpur-Ahmedabad sectors.
Retrieved on 11 July 2012 The Gül Train connecting Islamabad, Tehran and Istanbul by covering 6,500 kilometer or 4,040 mile in 16 days. There is a break-of-gauge between Iran Railways, Standard gauge and Pakistan Railways, Broad gauge at Zahedan. A container terminal is proposed in Zahedan for transshipment of containers from Standard gauge to Broad gauge. A passenger train service is also under consideration on this route.
Science Museum, The British Railway Locomotive 1803-1853, H.M.S.O, 1958, p.13. Daniel Gooch oversaw the building of two Patentee style Locomotives, originally intended for the New Orleans Railway at 5ft6 Broad Gauge. When the American order was withdrawn, the North Star and Morning Star were sold to the Great Western Railway and converted to Brunel's 7ft Broad Gauge, forming the basis of the GWR Star Class Locomotives.
The Great Western Railway Sir Watkin Class were 0-6-0T broad gauge steam locomotives with side tanks. They were designed for working goods trains through to the underground Metropolitan Railway in London. This class was introduced into service between December 1865 and the last was withdrawn at the end of the GWR broad gauge in May 1892. They were all named after directors and senior officers of the railway.
The Bardhaman–Katwa line is a broad gauge branch line connecting Bardhaman and Katwa in Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal. It is under the jurisdiction of Eastern Railway. The line was a narrow gauge line, before its gauge conversion began on 2010. The gauge conversion was done in two phases along with electrification and the full broad gauge line was thrown open for public again on 12 January 2018.
Kirandul Railway Station The Kothavalasa–Kirandul lineIndian Railways - Google Books of East Coast Railway from Kirandul to Visakhapatnam via Koraput is laid through the Eastern Ghats. Up to Araku station, it has many tunnels. Also it pass through the highest elevation Broad gauge station in the Eastern ghats, Semiliguda, just before the Borra caves. Kirandul - Kottavalasa RailroadKottavalasa-kirandul is the record high Broad Gauge line in the Eastern Ghats.
The 12461 / 12462 Mandore Express is a superfast express train on India's broad gauge network, connecting (code: JU) and (code: DLI), a distance of approximately 619 km. The train runs on Indian Railways broad gauge line. The train gets a WDP 4 EMD locomotive and has a top speed of 110 km/h. The train has sleeper class, ac 3 tier, ac 2 tier and ac first class of accommodation.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 32 trains including few express and passengers stop at Azimganj City railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 13 trains including few local and passengers stop at Poradanga railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 18 trains including few local and passengers stop at Mahipal Road railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa- Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 26 trains including passenger and express trains stop at Nimtita railway station.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 10 passengers and EMU stop at Kazipara Halt railway station.
Nilambur–Shoranur line is a long single line, non-electrified broad gauge (1676 mm) railway spur branch line of the Indian Railways connecting Nilambur Road railway station in Malappuram district with Shoranur Junction in Palakkad district in the state of Kerala. It is a branch line administered by the Palakkad railway division of the Southern Railway zone and one of the shortest broad gauge railway lines in India.
Indeed the Parliamentary deposit required to proceed with the Bill had to be loaned by the Taff Vale company. At the committee stages of the Cowbridge Railway Bill, the South Wales Railway once again put forward the proposal that the branch should be built on the broad gauge, which would bring it into the "associated companies" of the broad gauge group. However this last-minute idea was not taken forward.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a -wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the -wide broad gauge Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Few passengers and EMU local trains stop at Kanthaliya Road railway station.
Assam Behar State Railway extended the metre-gauge railway from Parbatipur, now in Bangladesh, to Katihar in 1889. In 1948–50, as a part of the Assam Rail Link project, the Fakiragram–Kishanganj sector was connected to the North Eastern Railway network at Barsoi. The railway lines in the area started being converted to broad gauge from the early 1960s. The Barsoi–Radhikapur sector was converted to broad gauge in 2006.
1846 Crampton locomotiveCrampton realised that the locomotives of the GWR were better than the standard gauge locomotives for a number of reasons. The broad gauge allowed a larger boiler diameter and higher centre of gravity for the same stability. Broad gauge also allowed a bigger firebox and heating area. Larger driving wheels gave a lower piston speed, which allowed a higher speed for the locomotive before exhaust problems occurred.
Broad Gauge Conversion near Rajwanshi Nagar, SaharsaKosi Bridge at Baluwaha Ghat near Saharsa Town is a railway station on the East Central Railway. It Covers up to , Forbesganj Station and . In early 2005, a much-awaited broad gauge line connected it to Khagaria on the New Delhi-Guwahati main line. Earlier there was only a metre gauge line on the Khagaria – Mansi – Forbesganj section of the East Central Railway.
The Great Western Railway opened Parson Street railway station in 1927. The first section of the Bristol and Exeter Railway's main line opened on 14 June 1841 between Bristol and . Engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the line was originally built as broad-gauge, but had been reconstructed as a mixed gauge line to accommodate local -gauge traffic by 1 June 1875. Broad gauge trains ceased operation on 20 May 1892.
Ringas railway station is located is nearest Railway station junction . Earlier all the tracks were metre gauge. Now the track from Rewari, Narnaul and Neem-Ka-Thana in the north to Phulera and Ajmer in the south is broad gauge since 2009. The track from Ringas to Jaipur towards the east and to Sikar towards the west is still metre gauge and is being converted to broad gauge.
For the rest of the second half of the nineteenth century, the intensive construction of railways continued. Lines constructed during that period included Dinaburg–Radviliškis, Mitau (now Jelgava)–Muravyovo (Mažeikiai), and others. From the 1890s, narrow gauge lines () were built to complement the broad gauge lines (). Most of the narrow-gauge railways were later converted to broad gauge, but then dismantled in the second half of the twentieth century.
It was the first Railway Station in India to have a broad Gauge track. It was installed in the late 1860s, in a period even when all Indian Railway Stations including Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai were on narrow gauge. A broad gauge line linking the station to Salem via Namakkal was opened in 2014. The station is a part of the Salem railway division of the Southern Railways.
After gauge conversion it was repopened in the late 1970s. Although the broad gauge largely follows the same trackbed and alignment as the erstwhile narrow gauge, there is a minor deviation near Saharanpur. The broad gauge line takes off south towards Delhi from Tapri on the main line, while the narrow gauge line did not touch Tapri at all. Other than that, the stations are the same as before.
When the broad gauge railway line, instead of being placed at Dalkhola-Malda via Raiganj, was moved to Dalkhola-Barsoi-Malda this section, became only a branch line. This branch line starts at Barsoi railway station and ends at Radhikapur railway station where the Indo-Bangladesh border lies. The Barsoi-Radhikapur sector was converted to broad gauge in 2006. The corresponding station on the Bangladesh side is Biral in Dinajpur District.
The first railways in this state were broad gauge including some lightweight horse-drawn lines. But following the success of the narrow gauge in Queensland, several narrow-gauge lines were started. Because of the geography of the state with deep gulfs of the ocean, the various narrow-gauge lines were isolated from each other to begin with. In the 1920s several narrow gauge lines were converted to broad gauge.
Bangladesh Railway Class 2900 locomotive Bangladesh Railway's fleet of diesel locomotives includes both diesel-electric and diesel-hydraulic machines. In 2007, there were 77 broad gauge diesel- electric locomotives. In 2012, Bangladesh Railway ordered 16 new broad gauge locomotives of 3100 hp from Diesel Locomotive Works, India. There were also 208 metre gauge diesel-electric locomotives including those of classes 2000, 2600, 2700, and 2900. The total number was 285.
It is the westernmost broad gauge railway line in Europe that is connected to the broad gauge rail system of the countries which before 1991 constituted the Soviet Union. The line is managed by PKP Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa Spólka z o.o. company. Previous name of this line was Linia Hutniczo-Siarkowa (English: Metallurgy - Sulfur Line), but after sulfur ceased to be transported on the line its name was changed.
The Victorian Goldfields Railway is a broad gauge tourist railway in Victoria, Australia. It operates along a formerly disused branch line between the towns of Maldon and Castlemaine.
During Meter Gauge several years back, Eight Peak Hour Services between Chennai Beach - Pallavaram Railway Station has been operated.Later the services were removed after conversion to Broad Gauge.
In 1885, Wolbrom received a rail station, along a newly built route from Dęblin to Dąbrowa Górnicza. The town is also located along the Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line.
Llandyssul (previously Llandyssil) was a railway station near the village of Llandysul, West Wales, on the originally broad gauge Teifi Valley line of the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway.
Dinhata II CD block has 5 originating/ terminating bus routes. The terminus station of the broad gauge Alipurduar- Bamanhat branch line, Bamanhat railway station, is in this block.
The long wide broad gauge Amritsar-Pathankot line was opened in 1884. It originally belonged to the local government and was transferred to North Western Railway in 1892.
The Pittsburgh and Butler Street Railway, commonly called the Butler Short Line, was a broad gauge interurban streetcar line connecting Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States to Butler via Mars.
Map showing broad gauge (green), standard gauge (red) and dual gauge (yellow) dedicated freight lines, as well as broad gauge lines shared by passenger and freight traffic (blue) The Port of Melbourne is at the centre of the Melbourne freight network, and is the destination for many services operating through the metropolitan area The rail network of Melbourne, Australia, has a significant number of railway lines and yards serving freight traffic. Rail transport in Victoria is heavily focused on Melbourne, and, as a consequence, much of the state's rail freight passes through the metropolitan network. The lines are of two gauges: and . Because the standard gauge lines were developed to facilitate interstate freight decades after the establishment of the original broad gauge network, they are used almost exclusively by freight services; while some broad gauge lines are used exclusively for freight, but many are shared with the suburban and regional passenger networks operated by Metro Trains Melbourne and V/Line respectively.
The LSWR was able to remove the obligation to maintain broad gauge tracks beyond Crediton; this had been used by a single daily broad gauge goods train for several years. The last broad gauge train beyond Crediton ran on 30 April 1877. Following this, the line from Yeoford to Coleford Junction (the point of divergence of the Lidford line) was doubled in standard gauge only on 16 May 1877. The LSWR continued the doubling towards Lidford, completing it on 22 December 1879. The Act of 13 July 1876 authorising the doubling by the LSWR of the Exeter and Crediton section had also permitted purchase of the line, and after some delay this was concluded on 26 June 1879.
Following a Royal Commission, in 1851 the broad gauge was adopted by the Province of Canada (present day Ontario and Quebec) as the standard gauge and government subsidies were unavailable for railways that chose other gauges. was called 'Provincial gauge' in Canada and today is generally known as "Indian gauge" after it was adopted as the first standard in India in 1851 and remains the dominant gauge there. Well-known colonial systems such as the Grand Trunk Railway and Great Western Railway, along with the Intercolonial Railway, European and North American Railway and Nova Scotia Railway later expanded the use of broad gauge. By 1860 there were of broad gauge and of standard gauge.
By the 1870s it began to be obvious that the indefinite continuation of the broad gauge was impossible, and plans were formulated to convert the broad gauge lines to standard gauge (often referred to as narrow gauge for contrast). In 1874 of the former Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth group of lines were converted; this included the former East Somerset line. In a huge operation, the last broad gauge trains ran on the line on 18 June, and on Sunday 21 June narrow gauge rolling stock was in place ready to operate a normal service. The Bristol and Exeter Railway converted its branch line from Yatton to Wells from 15 to 18 November 1875.
The line was single track and used the broad-gauge. The Wycombe Railway was extended in 1862 to Thame with another branch from Princes Risborough to Aylesbury in 1863.
Initially the Pune – Miraj line was a meter-gauge track. Later it was converted to broad-gauge in 1971. The present Pune railway station building was built in 1925.
Iron Duke class engines awaiting scrapping The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 was a class of broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work.
Nine broad gauge tank locomotives plus the frame of a tenth were bought second-hand from the Canterbury Provincial Railways in New Zealand when it converted to narrow gauge.
As of 2016, a single diesel broad-gauge railway line exists. Fourteen trains halt, seven trains originate and eight trains terminate at this station. Diu Airport is 64km away.
The Indian locomotive class WL of 1939 was a class of "Pacific"-type steam locomotives used on broad gauge lines in British India, and then in post- partition Pakistan.
As of 2016, electrified double Broad Gauge railway line exist and at this station, 40 trains stops. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport (Nagpur), is at distance of 105 kilometers.
Iranian platforms are , and . Like in China, areas adjacent to broad gauge countries/regions such as the eastern regions such as around Mashhad and Zahedan, still equipped low platforms.
Digital India driven digitalisation of railway to improvement efficiency and reduce cost. funding was approved in 2016.Indian Railways orders conversion to Broad Gauge, Rail Digest, 12 Apr 2017.
The station got access due to the opening of Guntur–Repalle broad gauge section via Tenali in the year 1916, when it was under Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway.
The Bardhaman-Katwa line after conversion from narrow gauge to electrified broad gauge was opened to the public on 12 January 2018. Bhatar railway station is situated at Bhatar.
The station has Broad-gauge tracks now. The upgraded station now consists of five platforms. Three platforms have been completely renovated to have basic facilities including water and sanitation.
With the opening of the North East standard gauge line in 1961, the line had standard gauge track at both ends, in addition to the broad gauge via Benalla. Gauge conversion of the line was proposed at various times, including by the Victorian State Government in 2001 with a proposed completion data of late 2003. The last broad gauge train to run on the line was a Pacific National grain service in May 2007.
Among rail hubs of Lesser Poland, there are Bielsko-Biała, Chabówka, Częstochowa, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Dębica, Dęblin, Jaworzno-Szczakowa, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Lanckorona, Kielce, Koniecpol, Kozłów, Kraków, Lublin, Łuków, Muszyna, Nowy Sącz, Oświęcim, Siedlce, Spytkowice, Skarżysko-Kamienna, Stalowa Wola, Stróże, Sucha Beskidzka, Radom, Tarnów, Trzebinia, Tunel, Zawiercie, and Żywiec. In the late 1970s, the Communist government built the broad-gauge Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line, which crosses Lesser Poland from west to east along the Vistula.
The through route was formally closed after the India–Pakistan War in 1965. The Siliguri–Haldibari, part of the original broad gauge Calcutta–Siliguri track via Hardinge Bridge, got delinked from the trunk route in 1947. As all the other tracks in the area were metre gauge, it was converted from broad gauge to metre gauge in the late forties. When New Jalpaiguri railway station came up, the line was extended to New Jalpiguri.
The through route was formally closed after the India–Pakistan War in 1965. The Siliguri–Haldibari, part of the original broad gauge Calcutta–Siliguri track via Hardinge Bridge, got delinked from the trunk route in 1947. As all the other tracks in the area were metre gauge, it was converted from broad gauge to metre gauge in the late forties. When New Jalpaiguri railway station came up, the line was extended to New Jalpiguri.
Anand Junction (station code: ANND) is a major junction located in Anand, Gujarat. It is a junction on the railway line which connects Ahmedabad with Vadodara and Mumbai and was opened in 1901. A 14 mile long broad gauge line was opened in 1929 connecting Vadtal with Anand Junction and , with 4 platforms benefitting pilgrims visiting the Swaminarayan Temple in Vadtal. Other broad gauge branches from Anand connect it to Godhra and Cambay.
The branch line from Latur towards east of Kurduvadi connects Miraj in south-southwest and was called Barshi Light Railway as it was a narrow gauge track. Solapur lies southeast of Kurduvadi and connects to Bijapur. A part of the narrow gauge Barshi Light Railway track from Kurduvadi to Pandharpur (52 km) was converted to broad gauge in 2001. The narrow-gauge track from Pandharpur to Miraj was converted to broad gauge in 2010.
Siliguri Junction (station code:- SGUJ) is one of the three railway stations that serve the city of Siliguri located in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The other two stations are: Siliguri Town and New Jalpaiguri. It has broad gauge and narrow-gauge tracks. It formerly had the distinction of having three gauges but the metre-gauge line from Aluabari Road to Siliguri Junction was converted later into broad gauge.
All railway lines through Latur are broad gauge. They belong to Central Railway Latur railway station was built again when the Barshi railway line was converted from narrow gauge to broad gauge. The railway gauge was converted in September 2007 from Latur to Osmanabad and in October 2008 from Osmanabad to Kurduvadi. Latur is now is connected to Mumbai by a direct train via Kurduvadi (train number 1006 from Latur and 1005 from Mumbai).
This too was a broad gauge line but it was operated by Thomas Brassey, the engineer who built it. This line was leased to the LSWR from 1 August 1862 which then ran its trains right through to and . At first it had to use Brassey’s broad gauge stock, but the line was also mixed gauge from 2 March 1863. The North Devon was amalgamated into the LSWR on 1 January 1865.
It was opened to traffic (broad gauge and standard gauge) in 1852. The viaduct was rebuilt several times; modifications made include the removal of its swing bridge and broad gauge tracks, replacement of the timber deck with an iron structure, and additional piles. In 1986, due to structural concerns, the track was singled and speed restrictions were imposed adding to journey times. In the early 2010s, Network Rail commissioned a new-build replacement.
Branch lines to San Martín and to Campo de Mayo in Greater Buenos Aires were opened on 20 February 1911 and 30 November 1914, respectively. Interchange was possible with the French-owned line of the Compañía General de Buenos Aires in Salto, with the broad gauge line of the British-owned Central Argentine Railway in San Martín (GBA) and with the broad gauge line of the British-owned Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway in Caseros.
The through route was formally closed after the India–Pakistan War in 1965. The Siliguri–Haldibari, part of the original broad-gauge Calcutta–Siliguri track via Hardinge Bridge, got delinked from the trunk route in 1947. As all the other tracks in the area were metre gauge, it was converted from broad gauge to metre gauge in the late forties. When New Jalpaiguri railway station came up, the line was extended to New Jalpiguri.
In 1879, a narrow gauge line opened from Beachport (Rivoli Bay North) through Millicent to Mount Gambier. In 1887, the Mount Gambier railway line was constructed to Naracoorte (connecting to the Kingston-Naracoorte railway line) and Wolseley, where it joined the Adelaide-Wolseley line. On 28 November 1917, a broad gauge line opened from Mount Gambier to Heywood near Portland. In the 1950s, the narrow gauge lines were converted to broad gauge.
The locomotives remained in service until 1881, when sufficient numbers of Cape gauge locomotives were in service and it was decided to remove all broad gauge track and rolling stock. The broad gauge track's iron rails were lifted and the track was relaid to Cape gauge as rapidly as possible, using steel rail sections on creosoted wooden sleepers.Espitalier, T.J.; Day, W.A.J. (1943). The Locomotive in South Africa - A Brief History of Railway Development.
Queensland, Western Australia, and Tasmania constructed for narrow-gauge railways. The other colonies built either standard-gauge or broad-gauge railways, maintaining only limited narrow-gauge rail lines, except for South Australia, which built both narrow and broad gauge. As a result of this legacy, Australian railways are a mix of all three gauges. Puffing Billy train at Lakeside station In 1865, the Queensland Railways was the first mainline narrow-gauge railway in the world.
The line now runs up to Munabao on the India-Pakistan border and has been fully converted to broad gauge. The Mavli-Marwar metre gauge line was opened in 1936.
The Indian Railways WG class was a type of broad gauge 2-8-2 goods locomotive introduced in the 1950s. 2450 of the class were built between 1950 and 1970.
Examples of railway cities in France are Tergnier and Miramas. Examples of a railway town by its border station is Cerbère, where the tracks of the Spanish broad gauge end.
The nearest broad gauge railhead is Pathankot. The nearest airport is Gaggal airport (IATA airport code DHM), also known as Kangra airport, about 15 km to the west through Dharamshala.
It, along with the rest of the line, closed on 30 April 1954, reopening on 19 February 1962 when the line as far as Belgrave was converted to broad-gauge.
This 52 km-long railway section was converted to broad gauge, work for which began on 14 January 2013. The line was opened to the public on 24 May 2018.
Track gauge in Canada is standard gauge of , except for Toronto transit systems. Rail lines built during the 19th century with a broad gauge of were converted to standard gauge.
The line is proposed to be rebuilt as a broad gauge line under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor as part of a new railway link between Kotla Jam and Quetta.
New railway track from New Bongaigaon to Guwahati was commissioned in 1984. Saraighat Bridge opened in 1962, initially carried a metre gauge track, which was later replaced by broad gauge.
Trains started running on the Howrah-Delhi main line of East Indian Railway Company in 1865-66. The long wide broad gauge Barhan-Etah branch line was constructed in 1959.
Rayadurg–Tumkur section is an ongoing broad gauge railway line project in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. It connects Rayadurg in Andhra Pradesh with Tumkur in Karnataka.
The Indian locomotive class XE was a class of "Mikado" type steam locomotives used on broad gauge lines in India.Hughes 1976, p. 17.Marshall 2009, pp. 36, 37, 62–67.
The long wide broad gauge Siliguri- Jogihopa line was constructed between 1963 and 1965. The Naranarayan Setu was constructed in 1998, thereby paving the way for linking Jogihopa with Kamakhya.
Bengal and North Western Railway constructed the long wide metre gauge line from Siwan to Kaptanganj in 1907. The Kaptanganj-Thawe section was converted to wide broad gauge in 2011.
He also mentioned that some of the collieries served—Churchway, Quidchurch, Spero, Bilson, Prospect, Winnings, Cinderford Bridge, Woodside and Paragon—had ceased work after the broad gauge line had been completed.
The broad gauge portion extends from Godhra to Bhopal, Ujjain to Indore and Ratlam to Chanderia via Chittaurgarh Junction. The metre gauge portion of the division extends from Ujjain to Khandwa.
The Cuddalore Port-Vadalur sector was converted in 2003. After conversion work of the Thanjavur-Tiruvarur broad gauge section was opened to traffic in 2006 and Tiruvarur-Nagore section in 2010.
In 2008 El Zorro took over the Warrnambool - Melbourne container service from Pacific National, and moved into broad gauge grain services, while Aurizon has taken over the Melbourne - Horsham container service.
The Kottavalasa- Kirandaul line was opened in 1966-67. The Paralakhemedi Light Railway opened the Naupada-Gunupur line between 1900 and 1931. The line was converted to broad gauge in 2011.
Some TGV-derived trains used to run on the broad-gauge network at slower speeds, but these were branded separately as Euromed until new rolling stock was commissioned for these services.
Operations continued until 23 February 1958, following which conversion the line between Upper Ferntree Gully and Belgrave to broad-gauge and electrification was commenced. The station reopened on 19 February 1962.
The South Australian Railways E class was a class of 2-4-0 steam locomotives acquired to work passenger and goods train services on the South Australian Railways broad gauge system.
The long wide broad gauge Puntamba-Shirdi link, connecting Shirdi to the Manmad-Daund branch line was completed in 2009. The Manmad-Puntamba-Sainagar Shirdi line was electrified in 2011-12.
Footscray station platforms, south-western end Quad T's at Sims Street Junction heading to Tottenham The Pacific National Locomotive Provisioning Centre Red is broad gauge, blue is dual or standard gauge.
It lies on the Oaklands railway line, Victoria which is a broad gauge branch operated by Victorian Railways. The station has a wheat silo which is its main reason for being.
For example, MacDermotE T MacDermot, History of the Great Western Railway, vol II: 1863–1921, published by the Great Western Railway, London, 1931, p. 316 says: > In November 1871 a novelty in the shape of a mixed-gauge goods train was > introduced between Truro and Penzance. It was worked by a narrow-gauge > engine, and behind the narrow-gauge trucks came a broad-gauge match-truck > with wide buffers and sliding shackles, followed by the broad-gauge trucks. > Such trains continued to run in West Cornwall until the abolition of the > Broad Gauge; they had to stop or come down to walking pace at all stations > where fixed points existed and the narrow portion side-stepped to right or > left.
Steam power was prohibited from being used on it. The broad gauge connection, known as the South Wales Junction Branch Railway, was constructed almost immediately, and may originally have been intended as a transhipment siding. The Cefn Cwsc colliery and Ford's Works were located a short distance from the junction of the Junction Branch Railway on LVR territory, and extensions of the broad gauge were laid in to them. This resulted in a short length of mixed gauge and broad gauge track. However, no progress was made in the construction of the steam railway or the conversion of the DL&PR; for some years, and it was not until 18 June 1855 that an Act was obtained authorising the LVR's intentions.
During the construction of the broad-gauge railway from Mikhailovsk to Kysyl-Arwat (now Serdar), the engineers and construction workers used the portable Decauville railway with a length of , which was powered by two small oil-fired Decauville steam locomotives. As soon as the broad-gauge tracks had been laid, the narrow-gauge tracks were dismantled at the start of the narrow-gauge line and laid to new construction sites at the end of the line. By the time the broad-gauge railroad to Serdar was completed, the Decauville line was already running to Bami. The line would probably have remained there for maintenance and transportation, if huge naphtha and ozokerite deposits had not been found at Naphtha Hill, southwest of the Tagyr wells.
The major routes, apart from the original line, served Weymouth, Plymouth and Penzance to the west; all of South Wales to Fishguard and Aberystwyth; Birmingham and Chester to the north-west. A working agreement with the LNWR extended the Chester line to Birkenhead on Merseyside. The broad gauge system resulted in what became known as the Gauge War: despite the technical advantages of broad gauge, it caused problems wherever the GWR met other companies' tracks, and eventually (in 1892) the last broad gauge line was abolished. The name "Great Western Railway", alone of all the pre-Grouping companies, was retained until the nationalisation of the railways; and one of the post-British Rail train operating companies now bears the name in 2005.
Ireland, using the same criteria, was allocated a different standard gauge, the Irish gauge, of which is also used in the Australian states of South Australia and Victoria. Broad-gauge lines in Britain were gradually converted to dual gauge or standard gauge from 1864, and finally the last of Brunel's broad gauge was converted over a single weekend in 1892. In 1839 the Netherlands started its railway system with two broad-gauge railways. The chosen gauge of was applied between 1839 and 1866 by the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij (HSM) for its Amsterdam–The Hague–Rotterdam line and between 1842 and 1855, firstly by the Dutch state, but soon by the Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij, for its Amsterdam–Utrecht–Arnhem line.
The rail link of Ratlam Division has a history of more than 130 years. The metre gauge section was started in 1874, while the broad gauge () came into existence in 1893. It is a major junction and a rail division of Indian Railways on metre and broad gauge lines. Four major railway tracks pass through Ratlam City; these are towards Mumbai, Delhi, Ajmer and Khandwa, in which the railway track along Khandwa is a metre gauge track.
The yard immediately south allowed trains to transfer from any platform to any line. The most common use of this feature was when Inter/Intrastate freight and passenger trains would use the Willunga tracks to Goodwood from Keswick Rail Yards, then change to the Belair tracks through Goodwood Yard. Prior to the One Nation gauge standardisation project in 1995, all four tracks at Goodwood were broad gauge, and the Belair line was dual broad gauge tracks.
The rail network in Adelaide, South Australia, consists of six lines and 89 stations, totalling 125.9 km. It is operated by Adelaide Metro, and is part of the citywide Adelaide Metro public transport system. All lines around Adelaide were originally broad gauge . The main interstate lines out of Adelaide towards Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Darwin have been progressively converted to standard gauge , but the suburban system and a few freight-only branch lines to the north remain broad gauge.
It is terminus and westernmost railway station of India. The station had a metre-gauge railway line laid in 1980 to get connected with the town of Bhuj. The line was abandoned later since Gandhidham - Bhuj section got converted to broad gauge and this 101.24 km line became isolated. Recently gauge conversion to broad gauge has been approved by the Government of India in June 2016, so that it can be used for public, military or freight purpose.
Bangladesh Railway Class 6600 is an upcoming broad-gauge diesel-electric locomotive class of Bangladesh Railway. Rated as 3,250 hp, 40 of these locomotives will be manufactured by Progress Rail in the United States.Bangladesh taps Progress Rail for GT Series power Railway Age 2 July 2019 They are the first ever EMD-based locomotives of Bangladesh for broad- gauge (1,676 mm) railway. They are also the first ever locomotive class dedicated for freight traffic in Bangladesh.
As the South Wales Railway was being built on the broad gauge and was to be the only main line railway in the vicinity, the Llynvi Valley Railway was to adopt the broad gauge as well. The LVR acquired the DL&PR; in 1847, ratified by Act of 22 July. DL&PR; shareholders got a total of £50,000 in new LVR shares. Already on 2 July 1847 the LVR had obtained authorisation to deviate from its earlier intended route.
The line used its own station at Barnstaple (later to be named Victoria Road), some distance from the rival station at Barnstaple Quay. The line was built as broad gauge and operated by the B&ER.; The last broad gauge train ran on 14 May 1881, after which the line was converted to and reopened on 18 May. In 1884 the Tiverton and North Devon Railway opened from a junction on the D&SR; to Tiverton.
The Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge and was reopened to public on 2007. A new station called the New Gitaldaha station was built to be used instead of the old Gitaldaha junction. The Fakiragram-Golakganj-Dhubri section was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge during 2010. Golakgunj was linked with New Cooch Behar with a new line on 2012 as a part of the New Maynaguri-Jogighopa project.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a -wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the -wide broad gauge Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Number of local trains stop at Jibanti railway station. The rail distance between Jibanti and Howrah is approximately 197 km.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. The station electrified in August 2018 . Total 46 trains including number of Express, Passengers and EMU stop at Salar.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 13 local trains stop at Niyalish Para railway station. The rail distance between Niyalish Para and Howrah is approximately 216 km.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 26 trains including few passengers and EMU stop at Tenya. Distance between Howrah and Tenya railway station is approximately 168 km.
In October 1877 during a storm, the roofs of the passenger buildings and goods sheds were torn off. A connection from Par to the Cornwall Minerals Railway line to Newquay was opened on 1 January 1879. This was standard gauge and so traffic between this and the broad gauge Cornwall Railway had to be transferred between trains at Par until the broad gauge was converted over the weekend of 21 May 1892. New station buildings were erected in 1884.
According to 2012 budget, New Bongaigaon Jn. is considered to be the Adarsh Station of India. Biodiversity Special train name Science Express stands on a platform of New Bongaigaon Railway Junction Dibrugrah-New Delhi Rajdhani Express on the platform no.3 of New BNGN Jn. Station Construction of the long wide broad gauge Siliguri-Jogihopa line, between 1963 and 1965, brought broad gauge railways to Assam. It also was the reason for setting up the New Bongaigaon railway station.
Through this period the conversion to standard gauge continued, with mixed-gauge track reaching Exeter in 1876. By this time most conversions were bypassing mixed gauge and going directly from broad to standard. The final stretch of broad gauge on the national network was converted to standard in a single weekend in May 1892. There is one small exception: The Holyhead Breakwater Railway, laid for the construction of the breakwater, was constructed at the broad gauge.
A new Stratford-on-Avon joint station was opened on 1 January 1863, used by the GWR and the OW&WR.; The original SoAR terminal became a goods depot from the same day. The new station was Italianate in design with a hipped, overhanging roof in Brunel's early style. Also on the same day broad gauge operation on the GWR lines was discontinued, although the broad gauge rails remained in situ on the branch for six years.
This eight-kilometre (five-mile) section was rebuilt during 1992–1994 and opened for traffic on June 5, 1994. Due to the ongoing underpass work at broad gauge railyard, the current museum railway station had to be founded due east from the original location. Originally the Jokioinen Railway did not have a station building in Humppila. The Humppila railway station on the broad gauge national line served both railroads until Jokioinen Railway was closed in 1974.
First Great Western power car 43185 Several locomotives have been given the name Great Western. The first was an Iron Duke class broad-gauge locomotive built in 1846, the first locomotive entirely constructed at the company's Swindon locomotive works. This was withdrawn in 1870, but in 1888 a newly built locomotive in the same class was given the same name; this was withdrawn four years later when the broad gauge was taken out of use.Sheppard (2008), pp.17–18.
On consideration, this was seen to be beyond the means of the company, and the scheme was limited to the conversion as far as Wimberry, at an estimated cost of £33,000. This was approved, and in 1868 a Board of Trade certificate was obtained authorising further capital of £38,000. The six-wheeled locomotive was to be converted, from 3 ft 6 in to broad gauge, at a cost of £200. A new broad-gauge locomotive was obtained as well.
The Company was to build a standard gauge line from Callington to Kelly Quay at Calstock, with an inclined plane to descend to the quayside there. The Company applied for Parliamentary authority and obtained it on 29 July 1864. Construction was soon under way, and the following year a broad gauge Saltash and Callington Railway, and in 1866 the Kit Hill company obtained authority to build on the broad gauge instead, so as to connect with the Saltash company.
This train is the first broad-gauge train from Jaipur Junction and it came into service on 30 January, 1993. Jaipur Superfast is also informally known as Gangaur Express. Before Jaipur Junction was upgraded to broad-gauge, this train ran between Mumbai Central and Durgapura station which is another railway station at Jaipur . It operates as train number 12955 in Down direction from Mumbai Central to Jaipur and in Up direction as train number 12956 between Jaipur & Mumbai Central.
The gauge line from Port Wakefield reached a new junction with the Kadina-Brinkworth railway line at Kadina and opened on 9 October 1878. It continued to Wallaroo on a new track adjacent to the older broad gauge track. The line from Kadina to Barunga Gap had started construction from the Kadina end in 1877 On 1 August 1927, the line was converted from to broad gauge. A junction at Kadina connected the Brinkworth- Kadina line.
On 19 June 1998, the government of Panama turned over control to the private Panama Canal Railway Company ("PCRC"). The Panama Railway was originally broad gauge broad gauge, but when it was rebuilt in 2000, the gauge was changed to standard gauge . The route is long across the Isthmus of Panama from Colón (Atlantic) to Balboa (Pacific, near Panama City). As of 2015, Panama Canal Railway Company runs both passenger and freight trains between Panama City and Colón.
The locomotives remained in service until 1881, when sufficient numbers of Cape gauge locomotives were in service and it was decided to remove all broad gauge track and rolling stock. The broad gauge track's iron rails were lifted and the track was relaid to Cape gauge as rapidly as possible, using steel rail sections on creosoted wooden sleepers. In that same year, the extension of the suburban line from Wynberg to Kalk Bay was authorised.Espitalier, T.J.; Day, W.A.J. (1943).
The broad gauge Viluppuram-Tiruchirapalli sector was electrified in 2010. Despite the fact that most trains bound to South Tamilnadu stop at this station, this station is only a 'B' grade station.
The invaders quickly retreated, but a few months later, Lesser Poland was flooded by the Swedes. Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line Swedish invasion of Poland had catastrophic consequences for the hitherto prosperous province.
Sangole an important road and railway connection on the Pandharpur-Miraj Junction route. It is connected by broad- gauge railway through Miraj, Kurduwadi, and Solapur junctions to other routes throughout the region.
A passenger train now operates on this route.Anand Prakash Joshi (2016) : "Rajasthan Patrika Year Book" (Hindi) p.755, Dholpur-Sarmathura unique Narrow Gauge rail line The railway is converting to broad gauge.
Rennie is served by a broad gauge branch of the Victorian Railways which extends to Oaklands, New South Wales and has been converted to standard gauge to meet the North East Railway.
Withdrawals started in March 1876 but the following year ten were rebuilt as 2-4-0T tank locomotives; the last survived until the end of the broad gauge on 21 May 1892.
Kadapa–Bangalore section is an ongoing broad gauge railway line project in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. It connects Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh with Bangalore in Karnataka via Kolar.
In the year 1934, it was converted to Broad Gauge from Metre Gauge. The line at that time was constructed and maintained by erstwhile Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, now Southern Railway.
The line passed through Muktasar and Fazilka tehsils and provided direct connection through Samma Satta (now in Pakistan) to Karachi. In 2013, the new broad gauge electrified Rewari-Rohtak line was constructed.
On 11 November 1862, the Berks and Hants Extension Railway (B&HER;) opened a broad gauge railway line from Hungerford, itself originally the terminus of a branch line from Reading, to Devizes.
The line was finally closed for gauge conversion on 9 June 2004. After conversion to broad gauge the Gunpur-Paralakhemundi-Naupada rail line was opened to public and from 21 August 2011.
The Bristol and Exeter Railway Fairfield was an experimental broad gauge self- propelled steam carriage. In later use the carriage portion was removed and it was used as a small shunting locomotive.
From 1841, the company began a batch of engines for the broad gauge Great Western Railway. The largest order came in 1847 for 28 engines for the London and South Western Railway.
The Victor Harbor railway line is a broad gauge line in South Australia. It branches from the Adelaide to Wolseley line at Mount Barker Junction and then runs south to Victor Harbor.
Sikar is connected through a broad gauge railway line section to Delhi, Churu and Jaipur. And there is a proposal since 10 years of a new line Sikar to Nokha via Sujangarh.
The nearest railway station is Ladnun (LAU), part of the North Western Railway. Ladnun railway station is connected through a broad gauge line to Hissar, Rewari, Delhi, Jodhpur, Mumbai, Guwahati and Jammu Tawi.
The Kangra Valley Railway in 2018 Joginder Nagar railway station is the terminus of the Kangra Valley Railway, which runs to Pathankot. The nearest broad-gauge station is the Pathankot Junction railway station.
The journal said that without broad gauge the Great Western Railway and Grand Trunk Railway would have avoided many problems, and speculated the Grand Trunk Railway might have survived as an independent system.
But the operating cost and the use of a broad gauge of meant it was not taken up more widely. Invention of the bogie made it redundant. It was abandoned entirely by 1893.
That same year, the company delivered 20 locomotives and 220 coaches to the country for Trenes Argentinos' long distance broad gauge rolling stock.CNR ships passenger fleet to Argentina - Railway Gazette, 24 March 2013.
Khulna–Mongla Port Railway is a 65 km broad gauge railway under-construction to connect the country with Mongla Port via railway. The under-constructed Rupsha Rail Bridge is on this proposed line.
The new wide broad gauge line between Fazilka and Abohar was opened in 2012. The Indian Railways have been considering proposals for converting the existing Ludhiana-Firozpur single line into a double line.
As of 2016, electrified double Broad Gauge railway line exist and at this station, 87 trains stops and one train each originates and terminates. Surat Airport, is at distance of 65 kilo meters.
The Guwahati–Lumding section is a broad-gauge railway line connecting and . The long railway line operates in the Indian state of Assam. It is under the jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway zone.
Also, minor roads and tracts exist in the vicinity of the beel. The beel is about 5 km from the Guwahati Airport (LGB Int. Airport). A broad gauge railway line skirts the lake.
The other was sold to the Finnish Railways and nicknamed Leena. It became No. 68 and is now the oldest working broad gauge locomotive in Finland, being preserved at the Finnish Railway Museum.
It was owned by Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway. The section is a broad gauge railway line which was opened on 23 August 1957. The line was sanctioned in the year 1997–98.
After the ending of the broad gauge in 1892 the railway was widened to four tracks. This involved a major rebuilding of the cutting, during which the slope of the sides was reduced.
On September 2, 2016, Ekota Express along with Drutojan Express were converted from meter-gauge to broad-gauge. Ekota Express has a load of 13/26 and can hold up to 1,200 passengers.
He planned a huge domed building with a height of 136 metres and a diameter of 265 metres. In May 1942, Deutsche Reichsbahn began on Hitler's instruction to develop plans for his Breitspurbahn extreme broad-gauge railway concept, that would connect the whole of Europe. This was planned to have a track gauge of three metres with a structure gauge of eight by eight metres. Munich would be on broad gauge lines between Berlin and Munich and between Paris and Vienna.
The Exeter and Crediton line was opened as a single broad gauge line on 12 May 1851. The TVER line from Crediton on to Barnstaple opened as single line on the broad gauge on 1 August 1854. The Exe viaduct at Cowley Bridge was replaced by a double track iron bridge in 1858, but as part of the work the curve to the junction was tightened considerably. Mixed gauge track was commissioned on the E&CR; line on 1 February 1862.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 40 trains including expresses, passengers and EMU stop at Bazarsau railway station. Distance between Howrah and Bazarsau railway station is approximately 175 km.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 25 trains including few Passengers trains and EMU stop at Jhamatpur Baharan. Distance between Howrah and Jhamatpur Baharan railway station is approximately 158 km.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 28 local trains stop at Lalbag Court Road railway station. The rail distance between Lalbag Court Road and Howrah is approximately 218 km.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 26 trains including few Passengers trains and EMU stop at Gangatikuri. The distance between Howrah and Gangatikuri railway station is approximately 155 km.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 23 trains including few Passengers trains and EMU stop at Shiblun. The distance between Howrah and Shiblun railway station is approximately 152 km.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 21 trains including few passengers and EMU stop at Miangram railway station. Distance between Howrah and Miangram railway station is approximately 170 km.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 24 trains including few passengers and EMU stop at Malihati Talibpur Road. Distance between Howrah and Malihati Talibpur railway station is approximately 164 km.
In 2012, the Bikaner Heritage Rail Museum was opened at Bikaner to displays items related to the Jodhpur and Bikaner Railway. In 2009, the metre gauge Hisar-Sadalpur line was converted to broad gauge. Between 2008–2011, the Bikaner-Rewari line was converted to broad gauge. In 1884, The Rajputana-Malwa Railway extended the wide metre gauge Delhi-Rewari section of Delhi–Fazilka line to Bathinda, which was The Southern Punjab Railway Co. opened the Delhi-Bathinda-Samasatta line in 1897.
The Peterborough railway line was built from a new junction at Roseworthy (north of Gawler on what was then the Morgan railway line) to Tarlee during 1868. A bridge was required over the River Light. The bridge is long and high, in two spans on stone abutments and a cast iron cylindrical pier in diameter. This bridge was replaced in 1925 in conjunction with the works to convert the narrow gauge line to broad gauge, despite this bridge already being broad gauge.
Herbert Street depot was alongside that connection, and now traffic for Herbert Street accessed the depot by a one-mile connection from Stafford Road Junction.Christiansen, page 90 and 91 From 1854 the Great Western Railway had a through route from Paddington to the Mersey at Birkenhead., albeit with a break of gauge at Wolverhampton. By this time it was obvious that extension of the broad gauge north of Wolverhampton was impossible, and the GWR progressively converted the broad gauge southward to mixed gauge.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a -wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the -wide broad gauge Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 26 trains including few passengers and EMU stop at Chowrigacha railway station. Distance between Howrah and Chowrigacha railway station is approximately 182 km.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a -wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the -wide broad gauge Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 26 passengers and local trains stop at Karna Subarna railway station. The rail distance between Karna Subarna and Howrah is approximately 192 km.
Mount Gambier circa 1960 The first six single ended examples were delivered in 1955/56 to operate over the steeply graded Adelaide to Tailem Bend line and onwards to Serviceton. A further 31 double ended examples entered service between July 1957 and June 1967 and operated across the broad gauge network. The double ended locomotives had a "bulldog nose" at one end, and a flat end at the other. All were delivered with broad gauge bogies and worked across the South Australian network.
From the start, the GWR gave names only to its broad gauge locomotive stock. However, many classes carried 'themed' names, e.g. stars or signs of the zodiac, which aided identification of locomotives to some extent. See List of 7-foot gauge railway locomotive names The exception to this rule was that any broad gauge locomotives the GWR absorbed from other railways (in particular, the South Devon Railway and Bristol and Exeter Railway) were given numbers in the 2000-2199 series.
A Royal Commission was set up to study the issue and report its recommendations. The report informed the Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846, which mandated standard gauge for all new railway construction except in the southwest of England and certain lines in Wales. However, building new broad gauge lines was still legal if an Act of Parliament permitted an exception for a new line. The broad gauge thus continued in common use in the West of England for several more decades.
The foundation stone for the shed was laid on the 25th of December, 1971 by the then Railway Minister, K Hanumanthaiya. The shed was open for operations in 1975 with a total area of and covered area of . The shed initially homed 45 of the YDM-4 class metre gauge locomotives. Three subsequent expansions were taken up which resulted in the holding capacity being increased to 100 metre gauge locomotives (1998), 40 broad gauge locomotives (1993) and 100 broad gauge locomotives (2000).
The S&WR; had opposed this in Parliament, but were bought off when the South Wales Railway agreed to give the S&WR; £15,000 to modernise their line, adding a broad gauge edge railway alongside. The South Wales Railway opened its line between Gloucester and Chepstow in 1851, but the S&WR; had done nothing to convert their line, so an interchange station was built at Lydney: minerals on the horse-drawn tramway were manually transshipped to broad-gauge wagons for onward conveyance.
In addition there was the narrow gauge Darjeeling Himalayan Railway running from Siliguri Town station to Darjeeling via Siliguri Junction. The Assam Rail Link Project, completed in 1950, linked the railways in Assam, with a metre-gauge line to Kishanganj. The line running across North Bengal, spanned the Teesta, Torsha, and Sankosh rivers. In the early 1960s, Indian Railways started changing over from metre gauge to broad gauge and built a new broad-gauge station south of Siliguri Town station.
A total of six 700 class locomotives were built for the South Australian Railways by AE Goodwin, Auburn and are an Alco DL500g model. They were built in 1971/72, with the first three delivered on broad gauge bogies and the last three on standard gauge bogies. In March 1978 all were included in the transfer of the South Australian Railways to Australian National. Over the years the locomotives frequently switched gauges before all were put on the broad gauge in 1987.
They used suri transmission similar to one used in the broad gauged WDM-3. 41 of these locomotives were built and they were initially homed at Moula Ali (MLY) diesel loco shed in Southern Central Railways division (SCR). After Moula Ali line was converted to Broad gauge, these locomotives were transferred to Golden rock(GOC) shed in the Southern Railway Zone. They hauled passenger and goods trains till the late 2000s when the meter gauge lines were converted to broad gauge.
While the broad gauge Cape Town-Wellington Railway was still being built, the independent Wynberg Railway Company was formed. It constructed a broad gauge line to Wynberg from a junction with the Wellington line at Salt River. Work commenced on 19 December 1862 and the line was completed and opened to traffic two years later to the day, on 19 December 1864. The company acquired one side-tank locomotive from Robert Stephenson and Company and named it after Mr. Watson, the general manager.
It has a combination of elevated, at-grade, and underground lines, and uses both broad gauge and standard gauge rolling stock. Four types of rolling stock are used: Mitsubishi–ROTEM Broad gauge, Bombardier MOVIA, Mitsubishi–ROTEM Standard gauge, and CAF Beasain Standard gauge. The Phase-I of Delhi Metro was built at a cost of US$2.3 billion and the Phase-II was expected to cost an additional . Phase-II has a total length of 128 km and was completed by 2010.
The Bristol and Gloucester now saw that they were to run between the broad gauge GWR at Bristol, and the broad gauge GWR (ex-C&GWUR;) at Standish and Gloucester. Isambard Kingdom Brunel had become the company's engineer (on 12 September 1839), and in April 1843, the Bristol and Gloucester decided to make its line on the broad gauge instead. A connection to the GWR station at Bristol would be made, and the GWR would complete the C&GWUR; Standish to Gloucester line within a year and give the Bristol and Gloucester running powers to Cheltenham. The Bristol and Gloucester was to be given access to the GWR stations at all these places. The arrangement was to last for 20 years for a rent of £18,500, rising by £1,000 after five years.
In keeping with the original plan, four of the six were to be converted to broad gauge operation on a rotating basis. Locomotive X31, however, was continually affected by a manufacturing issue with its pneumatically-operated Automatic Staff Exchanging equipment (which was of a new design) and so was excluded from the conversion rotation until the problem was finally resolved in the mid-1980s at Newport Workshops - though by this time the use of automatic-exchange equipment in Victoria was rapidly declining. Otherwise, they hauled passenger and freight services throughout Victoria.X class diesel electric locomotives Mark Bau On the broad gauge they operated with the ten broad gauge S Class locomotives, with typical assignments being freight service to Adelaide, and associated passenger workings like The Overland and The Vinelander.
How to get to Pakistan, The Hindu, 12 May 2017 In the 1990s, the Delhi–Jaipur line and Jaipur–Ahmedabad line were converted to broad gauge (BG). In 2007, the line going toward Ratlam Junction railway station from Phulera to Chittaurgarh was converted to BG. Between 2008-2011, the Bikaner- Rewari line was converted to broad gauge. In 2009, the metre gauge Hisar- Sadulpur section was converted to broad gauge. By December 2017, railways for the first time installed 6,095 GPS-enabled "Fog Pilot Assistance System" railway signalling devices in four most affected zones, Northern Railway zone, North Central Railway zone, North Eastern Railway zone and North Western Railway zone, by doing away with the old practice of putting firecrackers on train tracks to alter train divers running trains on snail's pace.
Cole was no destination in itself, but was the agreed point of meeting up with the Dorset Central Railway. The important town of Bruton lay nearby, but its topography made a closer approach difficult. The Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway had been opened in 1856, giving broad gauge access to the Great Western Railway (GWR) system, but the Somerset Central wanted to have through standard gauge access to the Dorset Central Railway and the South Coast. Parliamentary powers were sought and the standard gauge was specified, but pressure from the broad gauge B&ER; – who feared loss of the feeder traffic from the line it had supported – led to a requirement to lay broad gauge and to make a junction with the Wilts Somerset and Weymouth where the lines would cross.
However, these had been required by the Board of Trade to be on the broad gauge, and the LSWR did not have broad gauge rolling stock, so for some time the Company had to arrange for the Bristol & Exeter Railway to work its trains for it. After the LSWR reached Exeter, an arbitration award required the Bristol & Exeter to lay mixed gauge track from Exeter St Davids to Cowley Bridge Junction: the point of divergence of the North Devon lines from the B&ER; main line. This permitted the LSWR to run standard gauge trains to Crediton from 1862, and throughout to Fremington from 1863. The Bideford Extension Railway built a line from Fremington to Bideford, opened in 1855, worked by the LSWR on the broad gauge with B&ER; trains until 1863.
In 1869 the line was converted from broad gauge to standard gauge in a 5-day period. As part of the Beeching cuts the Gloucester to Hereford line was closed on 2 November 1964.
At this time, the broad gauge was still in use, although conversion to standard gauge was well underway. Several of Dean's early designs were "convertible" locomotives, which could be easily rebuilt into standard gauge.
In his "The East Coast", Ian Manning has jotted down the experience of his travel in the narrow gauge train. The Rupsa-Baripada-Bangriposi line was converted to broad gauge between 1996 and 2006.
In 2006, construction started on a new broad gauge railway line to Rathnapura only. In 2014, the government gave approval to the E06 Ruwanpura Expressway which will connect Rathnapura with Sri Lanka's Expressway Network.
Broad Gauge train at Bahraich Metre gauge engine at bahraich meter gauge yard. Bahraich railway station is a main railway station in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh. Its code is BRK. It serves Bahraich city.
This helped to give this design a low centre of gravity, so that it did not require a very broad- gauge track to travel safely at high speeds. Its wheel arrangement was usually or .
The Melbourne to Albury railway originally consisted of separate gauge and gauge single track lines, but when traffic on the broad gauge declined, the lines were converted to bi- directional double track gauge lines.
Cooch Behar I CD block has 8 ferry services and 11 originating/ terminating bus routes. The broad gauge Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line passes through this block and there are stations at Dewanhat and Bhetaguri.
This town is served by a broad gauge train and connected by NH-28. The railway station is called Chakia. It is also the closest railway station to Kesaria Stupa, a Buddhist pilgrimage site.
The bridge is broken. The line from Golokganj meets the branch line. The New Cooch Behar–Golokganj section is nearing conversion to broad gauge. The line passed through Gitaldaha at some point of time.
The Santa Fe and Córdoba Great Southern Railway (Gran Ferrocarril del Sud de Santa Fe y Córdoba) was a British-owned railway company that built and operated a broad gauge railway network in Argentina.
It is located at 90 m above sea level and has two platform. As of 2016, electrified double broad gauge railway line exists at this station. Passenger, MEMU, Express and Superfast trains halt here.
Sindewahi railway station connects to Gondia - Balharshah Electric Broad Gauge Line. It is also connected to Mul, Chandrapur, Nagpur, Gondia, Bhandara, Nagbhid, and Bramhapuri by MSRTC buses and also connected to Hyderabad by TSRTC.
Deotsidh is a pilgrimage town in Barsar tehsil, Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh, India. The nearest broad gauge railway station is in Una district, about distant, and the nearest airport is about away in Chandigarh.
The broad gauge former Soviet Railway crosses into Afghanistan at the station, Torghundi being the railhead station on the other side. It was built in 1960. In 2007, this line was restored to use.
While the new Cape gauge line was being constructed, the existing broad gauge lines were dual-gauged. The Cape Town-Wellington and Salt River-Wynberg sections were eventually worked by locomotives of both gauges.
The lines were built as (broad gauge) from Ararat to Portland in 1877. and 1913 the Gheringhap–Maroona line was opened, junctioning with the line at Gheringhap. They were converted to standard gauge in 1995.
Maddur and Mandya are the closest railway stations on the Mysore-Bangalore broad gauge link. The nearest airport, with daily services to most cities of the country and to some International destinations, is at Bangalore.
The Lumding–Dibrugarh section is a broad-gauge railway line connecting Lumding and Dibrugarh. The long railway line is functional in the Indian state of Assam. It is under the jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway.
Murtizapur railway station serves Murtizapur in Akola district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The Achalpur–Yavatmal narrow-gauge line, popular as Shakuntala Railway, meets the electrified broad-gauge Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line at Murtizapur.
The Barasat – Hasnabad light railway has been converted to a broad gauge section.Chaudhuri, Sukanta, The Railway Comes to Calcutta, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol. I, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, p. 239, Oxford University Press, .
The Iberian-gauge railways, that service much of Spain and Portugal, have a track gauge of , just different from . Used rolling stock from Iberia has been employed on broad-gauge lines in Argentina and Chile.
This narrow gauge train is popularly known as Shakuntala Express. Nearest broad gauge railway station is Murtijapur(50 km). Nearest airports are Amravati Airport (82 km), Akola Airport (85 km) and Nagpur Airport (250 km).
The Prayagraj–Mau–Gorakhpur main line was constructed as a -wide metre-gauge line by the Bengal and North Western Railway between 1899 and 1913. It was converted to -wide broad gauge in 1993–94.
Jhansi has the largest workshop in Indian Railways for periodic overhaul of freight wagons. Broad Gauge Coach Workshop at Bhopal handles rebuilding and overhaul of old passenger coaches. Gwalior Coaching Workshop handles narrow gauge coaches.
The Allahabad-Mau-Gorakhpur Main Line was constructed as a wide metre gauge line by the Bengal and North Western Railway between 1899 and 1913. It was converted to wide broad gauge in 1993–94.
Dinhata I CD block has 5 ferry services and 8 originating/ terminating bus routes. The broad gauge Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line passes through this block and there are stations at Dinhata, Falimari and New Gitaldaha.
Comparison of different gauges in India with standard gauge Project Unigauge, started on April 1, 1992, is an ongoing effort by Indian Railways to convert and unify all rail gauges in India to broad gauge.
The famous Parsik tunnel on - mainline lies in this hill. This tunnel is between and . Double Broad gauge track electrified passes through this tunnel. This reduced the distance between Thane and Diva to from formal .
EMU services, earlier operating from Howrah to Arambag, was extended to Goghat railway station, after completion of the electrified broad gauge Tarakewar-Goghat sector of the Tarakeswar- Bishnupur extension of the Sheoraphuli–Bishnupur branch line.
Bangladesh Railway Class 7000 is a class of broad–gauge (1,676 mm) diesel–hydraulic locomotives of Bangladesh operated by Bangladesh Railway. Total 20 locos of this class entered the fleet of Bangladesh Railway in 1980.
The broad gauge conversion which includes the reconstruction of the railway station started in October 2014 as part of the Lumding - Badarpur - Silchar railway section of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of the Indian Railways.
Bairabi railway station serves Bairabi city in Kolasib district, Mizoram. Its code is BHRB. The station consists of 3 platforms. Bairabi is one of the railhead of Mizoram and connected with a broad gauge line.
During the early 1880s, the Tasmanian Government decided upon construction of further narrow gauge lines and commenced with a line from Deloraine to Devonport which opened on 1 September 1885. In 1887, the broad gauge rollingstock of the Launceston and Western Railway consisted of 14 passenger carriages, 4 horse boxes and 84 goods vehicles. A proposal to take up the outer rail was examined and it was decided that greater economy of operation would be achieved. The last broad gauge train ran on 20 August 1888.
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was successful and was greatly expanded, directly and through friendly associated companies, widening the scope of broad gauge. At the same time, other parts of Britain built railways to standard gauge, and British technology was exported to European countries and parts of North America, also using standard gauge. Britain polarised into two areas: those that used broad gauge and those that used standard gauge. In this context, standard gauge was referred to as "narrow gauge" to indicate the contrast.
Before 1965, the Hyderabad-Khokhrapar Branch Line was metre gauge and Mirpur Khas railway station was the junction of Mirpur Khas - Nawabshah railway line. In 1965 Hyderabad - Mirpur Khas railway section converted to broad gauge and the rail link between the Pakistan and India via Khokhrapar and Munabao closed. In 2006 the train service between Mirpur Khas and Nawabshah closed. In February 2006 Mirpur Khas - Khokhrapar metre gauge railway line converted to broad gauge and railway link between Pakistan and India via Khokhrapar and Munabao restored again.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 32 trains including few passenger and express trains stop at Jangipur Road railway station. The distance between Jangipur Road and Howrah railway station is approximately 252 km.
In the early 1960s, when Farakka Barrage was being constructed, Indian Railways took the initiative to extend -wide broad gauge rail link from Kolkata. The long Farakka Barrage carries a rail-cum-road bridge across the Ganges. The rail bridge was opened in 1971 thereby linking the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop to Malda, New Jalpaiguri and other railway stations in North Bengal. Gauge conversion work (from metre gauge to broad gauge) in the Barauni–Katihar section was taken up in 1978–79 and completed in 1982.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a wide broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the wide broad gauge Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 24 trains including Express and passenger stop at Dhulian Ganga railway station. Old Dhulian Railway station under the Ganga river near Lalpur village , Present name Dhulian Ganga Railway Station .
PKP Class ST40 is a new class of cargo diesel-electric locomotives used by the PKP LHS broad-gauge division and various Polish private operators, designated 311D (standard gauge) or 311Da (broad gauge) by its manufacturer, Newag. The class is a heavily reconstructed Russian M62 (PKP ST44), using only the underframe. The body is new, the main engine is a General Electric GE 7FDL12. Original engines were also modernized, as ED118 A GE. The class is much more economical and modern than a basic M62.
The Kangra Valley Railway covers a distance of 164 km (101.9 mi) from Pathankot, Punjab to Jogindernagar in Himachal Pradesh🎁 between This line is proposed to be converted to broad gauge and further linked to Bilaspur-Leh line at Mandi. Both these tracks are commercially unviable but are operated because of their heritage value. A broad gauge line exists which connects Nangal Dam in Punjab to Una in Himachal Pradesh. Currently this line is being extended till Talwara (Punjab) with track operational till Daulatpur Chowk.
Map of the route to Lydford in 1874 The broad gauge Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER;) was the first line to reach Exeter. It had reached St Davids station in Exeter in 1844 and was allied with the Great Western Railway (GWR) with which it connected at Bristol, forming a continuous route from London. The South Devon Railway (SDR) continued the line westward from Exeter to reach Plymouth in 1848. These broad gauge 'associated companies' formed a powerful group dominating rail services to Devon and Cornwall.
As part of the project, the narrow gauge from Terowie was converted to broad gauge to match the rest of the line to Terowie from Adelaide resulting in Peterborough having all three South Australian track gauges. Following the conversion of the Adelaide to Crystal Brook line to standard gauge in 1982, Peterborough's importance diminished. By 1988, both the narrow gauge line to the north and broad gauge line to the south had closed. Today the former roundhouse is home to the Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre.
The second lap of the journey was a 336 km metre gauge line of the North Bengal Railway that linked Saraghat on the northern bank of the Padma to Siliguri. Later the 1.8 km long Hardinge Bridge across the Padma came up in 1912. In 1926 the metre-gauge section north of the bridge was converted to broad gauge, and so the entire Calcutta - Siliguri route became broad-gauge. The route thus roughly ran: Sealdah-Ranaghat-Bheramara-Hardinge Bridge- Iswardi-Santahar-Hili-Parabtipur-Nilphamari-Haldibari-Jalpaiguri-Siliguri.
The Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway was built on the narrow gauge (as standard gauge was then known), but interchange with that line was not considered important.Mixed gauge would have been needed between Wyesham and Monmouth. Nevertheless, national government had taken an interest in the gauge of new and existing railways, and a Gauge Commission had been appointed to recommend policy. This recommended that no new lines should be built on the broad gauge, except for certain designated extensions to the existing broad gauge network.
Broad gauge generated 100% of the freight output (net tonne-kilometres) and more than 99% of the passenger output (passenger kilometres) in the fiscal year 2018–19. The tracks and and narrow gauge tracks are present on fewer routes. All of these routes, except the heritage routes, are being converted to broad gauge. The metre gauge tracks were (4.21% of total route network) and narrow gauges tracks were (2.50% of total route network) Urban rail transit systems in India mostly use standard gauge tracks.
The network has now crossed the boundaries of Delhi to reach Ghaziabad and Noida in Uttar Pradesh, and Faridabad and Gurgaon in Haryana. All stations have escalators, elevators, and tactile tiles to guide the visually impaired from station entrances to trains. It has a combination of elevated, at-grade, and underground lines, and uses both broad gauge and standard gauge rolling stock. Four types of rolling stock are used: Mitsubishi-ROTEM Broad gauge, Bombardier MOVIA, Mitsubishi-ROTEM Standard gauge, and CAF Beasain Standard gauge.
Ajanta Express runs through eastern Maharashtra (Marathwada region) and north-western region of Telangana. It was known as Kacheguda Express very often by the people travelling on Kacheguda-Nizamabad-Nanded-Aurangabad route on former Hyderabad-Godavari Valley Railways. The train was introduced on 1 April 1967 as a metre gauge train between Kacheguda railway station and Manmad, via Nizamabad, Nanded and Aurangabad. The train became popular in a short time as Manmad Junction on broad gauge was the point to take broad gauge trains to other destinations.
In the 1943 Indian Bradshaw they were shown as running from Kadamtala. The management decided to close the line from 1 January 1973 and in view of the growing demand of local people for a railway service, the Indian Railways agreed to construct a broad-gauge-way from Amta to Champadanga. The railway was converted to broad gauge in phase starting from 1984 and completing in 2000. Only the Howrah–Amta section was rebuilt, while the line from Bargachia to Champadanga does not exist now.
It is next to last station on western side of India, the last being Naliya railway station. Naliya Cantonment had a metre-gauge railway line laid in 1980 to get connected with the town of Bhuj. The line was abandoned later since Gandhidham-Bhuj section got converted to broad gauge and this 101.24 km line became isolated. Recently, conversion to broad gauge has been approved by the Government of India in June 2016, so that it can be used for public, military or freight purpose.
The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway in 1860 In 1841 the GWR opened its first main line between London and Bristol. It was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the track was on the broad gauge, in contrast to most of the railways already in existence in Great Britain. The broad gauge would, Brunel argued, give greater stability to trains running at speed. In 1844 a branch line from Didcot to Oxford was opened, preparatory to extending the GWR system into the West Midlands.
Puducherry railway station Puducherry is connected by a railway branch line from the five-way junction at Viluppuram and Chennai. The railway line is a broad gauge line with 16 originating trains and 17 terminating trains.
Bangladesh Railway Class 6000 is a class of broad-gauge diesel-electric locomotives of Bangladesh operated by Bangladesh Railway. Total 18 locos of this class entered the fleet of the then Pakistan Eastern Railway in 1965.
The line was the property of the Cochin Government and was worked by the South Indian Railway Company. The line was converted into broad gauge between 1930 and 1935 as part of development of Cochin Port.
After the partition of India in 1947 the broad-gauge portion of the Bengal and Assam Railway, lying in India was added to the East Indian Railway and the metre-gauge portion became the Assam Railway.
Khambhalia railway station is situated on Viramgam-Okha broad gauge line. There is a branch line from it to Salaya port. The town is connected to all major cities of Gujarat by state road transport GSRTC.
It was converted to metre-gauge between 1929 and 1931 as part of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. The section was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge in 2007–2008. It was electrified in 2014.
The Gwalior-Bhind line was opened as a wide narrow gauge line in 1899. It was converted to broad gauge in 2001. The Gwalior-Sheopur Kalan wide narrow gauge line was constructed between 1904 and 1909.
By the time the broad gauge Table Bay Harbour construction railway was closed in 1904, engine no. 4 was no longer reflected in the Table Bay Harbour Board's locomotive register and had presumably already been scrapped.
The Varanasi-Allahabad City (Rambagh) line was constructed as a wide metre gauge line by the Bengal and North Western Railway between 1899 and 1913. The line was converted to wide broad gauge in 1993-94.
The broad gauge spur from Kasur Junction in Pakistan has been closed. A strategically important bridge that was blown up during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 at Hussainiwala, has been rebuilt and opened in 2013.
The broad gauge spur from Kasur Junction in Pakistan has been closed. A strategically important bridge that was blown up during the Indo- Pakistani War of 1971 at Hussainiwala, has been rebuilt and opened in 2013.
The Secunderabad–Bolarum route is one of the oldest suburban rail in the city of Hyderabad, established by Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway. Initially, it was a metre-gauge track but was later converted into broad-gauge.
Category:Villages in Palakkad district The new broad gauge railway line from Palakkad to Rameswaram pass by oottara, helping the commuters in this region to access Pollachi, Pazhani Murugan Temple, Palakkad Town, Udumalpet, Dindugal, Madurai and Rameswaram.
After a gauge conversion drive taken up by Southern Railways, the line was converted to a broad gauge in 2010. After gauge conversion the first train Rameswaram-Tirupati Express passed through this station in April 2011.
The Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway (BA&R;) was a British-owned railway company that built and operated a broad gauge railway network in Argentina, where it was known as the "Ferrocarril Buenos Aires y Rosario".
After Gauge conversion between Chennai Egmore and Madurai, Palaniroute was the sole Meter gauge section in the entire western Tamilnadu. Around 2012, Dindigul Palani section was converted into Broad Gauge, Chennai Palani Express commenced its service.
The proposed (Russian gauge) railways (e.g. Arctic Railway and Kosice-Vienna broad gauge line) and the proposed (Brunel gauge) railways will be for Sweden and Norway, and for Poland and Slovakia, and for Germany and Austria.
A Phase I broad gauge train, supplied by Mitsubishi Corporation–BEML.Reuters – Hyundai Rotem gets m order to supply trains. In.reuters.com. Retrieved on 24 October 2011. Bombardier. The Delhi Metro uses rolling stock of two different gauges.
Bahraich railway station is a main railway station in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh. Its code is BRK. It serves Bahraich city. The station consists of three platforms, two for broad gauge and one for meter gauge.
Newag 15D/16D is a cargo locomotive (type 15D - PKP ST48 series) or broad gauge (type 16D) diesel locomotive rebuilt by Newag in Nowy Sącz in Poland, which is a deeply modernised SM48 (Soviet TEM2) locomotive.
The branch from Rewari to Bhatinda and Fazilka was begun in 1881 by the Ferozepore & Rewari Railway, but the section between Bhatinda and Ferozepore was subsequently built to the broad-gauge and passed to the GIPR.
The coastal line has a gauge of broad gauge. The coastal line is not electrified. Regular services run on diesel power. However, there are plans to electrify the commuter-rail network, within the Colombo metropolitan area.
Believing that this connection was now impossible, on 3 December 1847 the Board ordered the broad gauge track to be converted to narrow gauge. Reaching Exeter over the B&ER; would be impossible, so they started work on a station at Cowley Bridge near the turnpike road: Cowley Bridge was to be their railhead for Exeter. This arrangement would be hugely inconvenient, for traffic from Barnstaple and North Devon, as well as Crediton. The Railway Commissioners of the Board of Trade now on 8 February 1848 gave their decision on the gauge of the TVER: it was to be on the broad gauge, because of the dominance of the broad gauge on the main lines in the area: the B&ER; and the South Devon Railway, open from Exeter to Totnes, and building on to Plymouth.
The broad gauge was actually first used in Scotland for two short, isolated lines, the Dundee and Arbroath Railway (1836-1847) and the Arbroath and Forfar Railway (1838-). Both the lines were subsequently converted to standard gauge.
Dahar Ka Balaji railway station is a small railway station in Jaipur district, Rajasthan. Its code is DKBJ. It serves Jaipur city on a broad gauge line by Jaipur - Churu section. The station consists of three platforms.
When the GSR passed into CIÉ at the end of 1944 the total number of broad gauge steam locomotives was about 475 of which 58 had been built by GSR. About 28 narrow gauge steam locomotives remained.
Volume 3 Broad Gauge & Works List (1st ed. (undated)). Century Locoprints, Bridlington, UK. p.77. . It is recorded that these locomotives, during tests, were able to haul a load of up a 1 in 40 (2½%) grade.
It was closed in 2004 for gauge conversion. The converted broad gauge track became operational in 2011. There has been a proposal to extend the track to Jhajjar where it will join Rewari-Jhajjar-Rohtak railway line.
Kukma also is a Railway Station (Flag Station) under Western Railways about 10 km from Bhuj on Gandhidham - Bhuj broad gauge route. Kutch Express and New Bhuj Exp(Sayaji Exp.) Railway train runs daily on this route.
Kapurthala railway station is at an elevation of and was assigned the code – KXH. The station is located on the single track, Broad gauge Jalandhar–Firozpur line. It is well connected to a number of major cities.
The nearest broad gauge railway station is the main railway station of Indore, Indore Junction (INDB), away. Indore is one of the major terminus and has regular daily connections to almost all major towns in the country.
In 1950 nizam granted railway was nationalized and merged in India railway. In 1992, 94-meter gauge work of Secundrabad manmad line was completed. In 2004, the nizam railway line was made broad gauge by Indian railway.
It was completed on 1 October 1892. The tunnel pierces the narrow divide between the Subarnarekha and the Brahmani basins. The long wide broad gauge Champa-Korba-Gevra Road branch line was constructed between 1953 and 1956.
Private owners' broad gauge wagons were returned to their home station; in many cases there was not enough siding accommodation for them, and they were turned off the line as close to their home station as possible.
As it moved north, the GWR acquired narrow (standard) gauge lines, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway and the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. It considered running broad gauge trains throughout to Birkenhead, but the idea was frustrated early on. The GWR obtained running powers to Birkenhead, Liverpool and Birmingham, and shortly afterwards a half share in the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway. This considerable expansion of business in narrow gauge territory made the broad gauge gradually untenable, and after considerable reflection the GWR abolished it north of Oxford on 1 April 1869.
The nearest railway station of Gujarat is at Palanpur Junction which comes under the administrative control of Western Railway zone of the Indian Railways. It has direct rail links on the broad gauge to the cities of Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Mysore, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Delhi, Dehradun, Muzaffarpur, Bareilly and Jammu. It is connected to most of the cities and towns in Gujarat such as Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodra, Bhuj, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Porbandar. Indian Railways' proposal to double the broad gauge line between Palanpur and Samakhiali has received government backing.
The station had a metre-gauge railway line laid in 1980 to get connected with the town of Bhuj. The line was abandoned later since Gandhidham - Bhuj section got converted to broad gauge and this 101.24 km line became isolated. Recently gauge conversion to broad gauge has been approved by the Government of India in June 2016, so that it can be used for public, military or freight purpose. In 2018 the railway section between Bhuj and Deshalpur village (28 km) was commissioned, remaining under gauge conversion Deshalpur – Naliya section (74 km).
To accommodate narrow gauge trains which were being operated in conjunction with existing broad-gauge rolling stock, a temporary platform was laid between the provincial broad-gauge station and the site of the new station in early 1876. It was first used for the departure of the first train to Timaru on 6 March 1876. In a memorandum dated 12 December 1877, the Railways Commissioner for the Middle Island instructed the general manager for Christchurch to suspend all traffic on the 20th to allow for the final re-gauging work to take place.
The nearest Railway station is at Abu Road which comes under the administrative control of North Western Railway zone of the Indian Railways. It has direct rail links on the broad gauge to the cities of Ajmer Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Mysore, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Delhi, Dehradun, Muzaffarpur, Bareilly and Jammu. It is connected to most of the cities and towns in Gujarat such as Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Bhuj, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Porbandar. Indian Railways’ proposal to double the broad gauge line between Palanpur and Samakhiali has received government backing.
Neither does the signal box which once stood high next to the bridge on the south platform. This was demolished when main building was extended to include a new signal box in 1929. The wooden stairs leading down from the footbridge to the south platform were removed in 2014 when the footbridge was refurbished. In 1995, the line from Adelaide to Melbourne was converted from Broad Gauge (1600mm) to Standard Gauge (1435mm), thus preventing any restoration of local trains to Mount Lofty and beyond, as the Adelaide suburban system remained as broad gauge.
The Great Western Railway Swindon Class 0-6-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between November 1865 and March 1866, and withdrawn between June 1887 and the end of the GWR broad gauge in May 1892. The entire class was sold to the Bristol and Exeter Railway between July 1872 and September 1874, where they were numbered 96-109, but returned to the GWR when that railway was absorbed. The locomotives were then renumbered 2077-2090; their names were not restored.
The Great Western Railway (GWR) Ariadne Class and Caliph Class were broad gauge 0-6-0 steam locomotives designed for goods train work by Daniel Gooch and are often referred to as his Standard Goods locomotives. The class was introduced into service between May 1852 and March 1863, and were built in seven lots at Swindon totalling 102 locomotives,. All were withdrawn between 1871 and 1883 except for Europa which was extensively rebuilt in 1869 and survived until the end of the GWR broad gauge in May 1892.
Before the Farakka Barrage over the Ganges was constructed, people going to the Darjeeling Hills or North Bengal from Kolkata, used to travel by broad gauge train to Sakrigali Ghat and then cross the Ganges by steamer. On the other side of the river at Manihari Ghat, they used to take a metre gauge train to Siliguri. Once Farakka Barrage became operational in 1975 (the barrage has a broad gauge rail line on it), this route became redundant. There still is a ferry service linking Manihari Ghat with Sahebganj.
The Exeter and Crediton Railway in context The Exeter and Crediton Railway was a broad gauge railway that linked Exeter and Crediton, Devon, England. It was 5¼ miles (8½ km) long. Although built in 1847, it was not opened until 12 May 1851 due to disagreement about the gauge to be used. It was initially operated by the Bristol and Exeter Railway, but eventually became a part of the London and South Western Railway, thus being one of the few broad gauge railways never to become part of the Great Western Railway.
Degana is a town populated around a railway junction on Jaipur-Jodhpur Broad-gauge line of North-Westorn Railway. Thence it has good connectivity to Jaipur (165 km), Jodhpur(149 km), Delhi (473 km) and Bikaner (218 km) through the railway network. Its location is Latitude 26° 53' 45" N and Longitude 74° 19' 15" E. Another railway line from Degana Junction to Ratangarh now upgraded to Broad- gauge has also elevated the importance of this town Station. This line runs through Deedwana, Ladnun, Sujangarh and joins the Bikaner-Delhi Railway line at Ratangarh.
The meter gauge line was later extended to Chala at Trivandrum via Paravur and Varkala and inaugurated on 4January 1918 Fund allotted for the extension of meter gauge railway line from Quilon to Ernakulam via Kottayam on 1952 and is inaugurated on 6January 1958. The metre-gauge lines between Kollam and Ernakulam were converted to broad gauge in 1975 and inaugurated on 13September 1976. The broad gauge conversion between the Punalur and Quilon sections was inaugurated on 12May 2010. There was once a metre-gauge line connecting Quilon Junction and Ashramam Maidan.
Palanpur Railway Station, on the Agra-Jaipur- Ahmedabad mainline, comes under the administrative control of Western Railway zone of the Indian Railways. It has direct rail links on the broad gauge to the cities of Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Mysore, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Delhi, Dehradun, Muzaffarpur, Bareilly and Jammu. It is connected to most of the cities and towns in Gujarat such as Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodra, Bhuj, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Porbandar. Indian Railways’ proposal to double the broad gauge line between Palanpur and Samakhiali has received government backing.
Barsoi is a town and nagar panchayat which serves headquarters of a subdivision in Katihar district in the state of Bihar, India. It is an important railway junction under Katihar division Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways.nr-est-frt-rly Barsoi Junction connects four routes as in the north Siliguri Junction on broad gauge and New Jalpaiguri Junction on broad gauge, on broad gauges Radhikapur near Bangladesh border on east and Katihar Junction on west and on south Kumedpur Junction railway station, Kolkata.It is one of the biggest railway junction of NFR.
From here, a south main line extended to meet the horse tramway from Victor Harbor to Strathalbyn, and towards the South Australia/Victoria Border. With the metropolitan systems being broad gauge, the mid north and south east of the state were originally laid with narrow gauge track. These systems were closely based on British practice, as was the broad gauge system prior to 1926. Locomotives and rolling stock were bought from the United Kingdom and United States, from builders such as Beyer, Peacock & Company, Dübs and Company, North British Locomotive Company, and Baldwin Locomotive Works.
The Karlsruhe—Heidelberg section of the Rhine Valley Railway was opened on 15 April 1843 as part of the construction of the Baden Mainline from Mannheim via Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden and Freiburg to Basel, which was initially built to 1600 mm broad gauge. As a result, Walldorf and Wiesloch gained a connection to the rail network. A few years later the line was duplicated. Since the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway’s broad gauge was not compatible with the gauge of neighbouring countries, it now feared the loss of lucrative transit traffic.
In the early 1960s, when Farakka Barrage was being constructed, a more radical change was made. Indian Railways created a new broad-gauge rail link from Kolkata, and on a greenfield site south of Siliguri Town built an entirely new broad-gauge junction, New Jalpaiguri. The long Farakka Barrage carries a rail-cum-road bridge across the Ganges. The rail bridge was thrown open to the public in 1971, thereby linking the Barharwa-Azimganj-Katwa Loop Line to Malda Town, New Jalpaiguri and other railway stations in North Bengal.
From on, through services run between Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse to Barcelona and Madrid. The station is also connected to the Spanish broad gauge railway network thanks to a branch that links it with the Barcelona–Cerbère conventional railway line near Vilamalla. This allowed broad-gauge connecting services to run between Figueres–Vilafant, Girona and Barcelona until the high speed line from Barcelona was finished and opened for commercial service on . The general plan was to move all trains for the Figueres area to this station and close the current Figueres station.
A very simple system was adopted, whereby the name (for broad-gauge locomotives) or number of the first locomotive in a class became the classification for all locomotives in that class (e.g. 'Sun Class', '4000 Class'). After the end of the broad gauge, names were applied to principal passenger and mixed-traffic standard-gauge locomotives. These were often based on a single theme, which could also lend its name to describe a class, for example 'Stars', also known as the '4000 Class', whose names included 'North Star', 'Rising Star' etc.
The Canterbury Provincial Railways built two lines into rural areas along the east coast, the Main South Line to Timaru and eventually Dunedin, and the Main North Line towards Marlborough. Both lines were built as broad gauge, as far as Rakaia on the Main South Line, reached in June 1873, and Amberley 50 km north of Christchurch, on the Main North Line. By the time the provinces were abolished and the Provincial Railways absorbed into the national network, the Canterbury network had been converted from broad gauge to narrow gauge ().
The Cornwall Railway was a broad gauge line, and there was an inconvenient break of gauge at Truro. In 1864 it gave notice to the West Cornwall company requiring it to lay broad gauge rails throughout; this was in accordance with the 1850 West Cornwall powers. The West Cornwall was quite unable to finance the required work, and had no alternative but to look for a buyer. In fact the only realistic buyer was the "Associated Companies", a group composed of the Great Western Railway, the Bristol & Exeter Railway and the South Devon Railway.
Palanpur Junction railway station, on the Jaipur-Ahmedabad line, comes under the administrative control of Western Railway zone of the Indian Railways. It has direct rail links on the broad gauge to the cities of Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Mysore, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Delhi, Dehradun, Muzaffarpur, Bareilly and Jammu. It is connected to most of the cities and towns in Gujarat such as Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodra, Bhuj, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Porbandar and Gandhidham. Indian Railways’ proposal to double the broad gauge line between Palanpur and Samakhiali has received government backing.
"V/Line Standard Gauge Report" Railway Digest August 1986 page 247 Two further contracts for eleven and seven broad gauge units had brought the fleet up to 33 by November 1989.G Class (G526-G543) Railpage The first 15 were built at Clyde Engineering's, Rosewater factory with the balance built at Somerton.G class diesel electric locomotives Mark Bau's VR Website Although primarily intended for hauling freight services, they were also used on passenger trains such as the Intercapital Daylight and Sydney/Melbourne Express. They rarely hauled broad gauge passenger trains.
Pacific National freight passing Belair in the Adelaide Hills FreightLink Adelaide to Darwin freight train at Dry Creek Australian Railroad Group broad- gauge Penrice Stone Train from the Barossa Valley to Osborne passing Birkenhead before 2008 The first railway in colonial South Australia was a horse-drawn tramway from the port of Goolwa on the Murray River to an ocean harbour at Port Elliot in 1854. Today the state has broad gauge suburban railways in Adelaide, a number of country freight lines, as well as key standard gauge links to other states.
V/Line passenger rail services beyond Ballarat were withdrawn on 27 May 1994,VictorianRailways.net – VR Timeline and in 1995 the One Nation Program rerouted the main interstate line via North Shore and Maroona and the broad gauge line between Ballarat and Ararat was closed to all traffic. The broad gauge passenger service from Ballarat to Ararat was not reinstated until 2004. Work began in 2005 on upgrades between Sunshine and Ballarat as part of the Regional Fast Rail project, which saw heavier tracks and concrete sleepers installed, renewal of ballast and a new signalling system.
Nos. 57-68, 12 0-6-0 freight engines designed by Gooch built at Swindon in 1855-6. They were typical Gooch engines, resembling his broad gauge Standard Goods, suitably narrowed for the standard gauge. On delivery they had to be transported to Wolverhampton on specially constructed broad gauge wagons. Between 1873 and 1890 all were "renewed" at Wolverhampton - that is, built afresh with minimal use of parts from the original engines - and in 1890-91 William Dean added, for some reason, three more to the class, as Nos. 316-8.
Bhandarkund railway station serves Bhandar, a medium size village located in Mohkhed Tehsil of Chhindwara district in Madhya Pradesh. It pertains to Nagpur railway division, part of South East Central Railway zone of Indian Railways. The station lies on a new railway line between and stations, a stretch of 31 km broad-gauge single track on Chhindwara–Nagpur branch line, running eastwards of the former narrow gauge track. Apart from this section, the rest of the narrow gauge network, once part of Satpura Railway, is being converted to broad-gauge lines.
Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa (known by its acronym LHS, English: Broad gauge metallurgy line) in Sławków is the longest broad gauge railway line in Poland. Except for this one line, and a few very short stretches near border crossings, Poland uses the standard gauge for its railways, unlike Russia and the other former countries of the Soviet Union. The line runs on a single track for almost from the Polish-Ukrainian border, crossing it just east of Hrubieszów, to Sławków. It is used only for freight transport, mainly iron ore and coal.
Laid with broad gauge trackage, Tottenham is a gravitational yard with a slight slope from the Sunshine end towards the city. The yard consists of four groups of sidings: arrival roads, two groups of classification roads, and departure tracks. Heavy usage of the yard ended with the gauge conversion of the main line to Adelaide in 1995, and with the decline of broad gauge traffic in general, large areas of the yard are now used for wagon storage. Tottenham station is located to the south of the yard.
NR class locomotive at the Melbourne Steel Terminal Connex services pass at Middle Footscray Freight traffic in Victoria is divided into two main segments: interstate freight on standard gauge, and intrastate freight on broad gauge. All track is owned by VicTrack, but is leased to and managed by differing organisations. The broad gauge lines were leased to Freight Victoria in 1999 as part of the privatisation of the rail network. Pacific National bought Freight Australia in August 2004 and in May 2007 the lease and management of the track was sold to V/Line.
The 12957 / 12958 Swarna Jayanti Rajdhani Express is a Rajdhani Express train on the Indian Railways broad gauge track network, connecting Ahmedabad and New Delhi, a distance of approximately 940 km. The train was one of the last Rajdhani Express trains to be introduced in the 20th century, making its inaugural run in 1997 after the estwhile metre gauge lines between Ahmedabad and Delhi through Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana were converted to broad gauge. Since it was introduced in the 50th year of India's independence, it was named 'Swarna Jayanti' (golden jubilee) Rajdhani Express.
The line was formerly narrow gauge () throughout its entire length, but the section between Balaghat–Gondia was converted to broad gauge in 2005–2006, connecting Balaghat to India's national network for the first time. Work is underway to convert the Balaghat–Jabalpur section to broad gauge. The Jabalpur–Balaghat–Gondia section of the Bengal Nagpur Railway (earlier called BNR and now South) since converted to BG. On Lamta Samnapur section Trolley trials are unerway . The 78802 katangi gondia demu section now operates Diesel–electric multiple unit (DEMU) train.
The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899. They were designed by William Dean for passenger work. The first 30 members of the class were built as 2-2-2s of the 3001 Class. The first eight members of the class (numbers 3021-3028, built April–August 1891) were built as convertible broad gauge 2-2-2 locomotives, being converted to standard gauge in mid-1892, at the end of broad gauge running on the Great Western Railway.
Four independent railways made broad gauge connections with the South Wales Railway during the time of its independent existence. The most important was the Vale of Neath Railway. It was incorporated in 1846 to make a line from Neath to Merthyr Tydvil, with a branch from near Hirwaun to Aberdare. As a broad gauge line serving a mineral district it was obviously to be a useful feeder to the South Wales Railway, and when it was unable to secure the subscriptions it needed to build its line, the South Wales Railway subscribed £127,780.
Adapur is a railway station on the Broad gauge Raxaul-Darbhanga line. Presently, the rail lines are without overhead Electric wires i.e. only Diesel engines can be run on them. Ticket office - One can purchase unreserved tickets here.
Rail transport in Belarus is owned by the national rail company BŽD / BČ (be: Bielaruskaja Čyhunka / ru: Belorusskaja Železnaja Doroga). The railway network consists of 5,512 km, its gauge is (Russian broad gauge) and 874 km are electrified.
The gauge conversion is in process. The Mathela–Nimarkhedi–NTPC Khargone section was converted to broad gauge and started on 12th August 2019 and electrification was also done on 15th March 2020.connect gujarat.com, Retrieved 23 August 2020freepressjournal.
A new national highway numbered NH 365B connects Sircilla with different district headquarters of the state Suryapet-Jangaon-Siddipet-Sircilla. Manoharabad Kothapalli new broad gauge line under construction is proposed to connect the town with Secunderabad and Karimnagar.
Chengannur rail link came into existence in 1958 when Ernakulam - Kottayam meter gauge railway line was extended to Kollam Junction. The railway line between Trivandrum Central and Ernakulam Junction via Kottayam was converted to broad gauge in 1976.
The Rajputana-Malwa Railway extended the wide metre gauge Delhi-Rewari line to Bathinda in 1884. The Bathinda- Rewari metre gauge line was converted to wide broad gauge in 1994. The Bhiwani-Rohtak link was laid in 1979.
Kahalgaon railway station, one of the oldest station of Bihar, serves the Howrah-Kiul loop line. The city is situated on the broad-gauge Loop Line of Eastern Railway. Kahalgaon is well connected to all cities by train.
Mavelikara rail link came into existence in 1958 when Ernakulam - Kottayam meter gauge railway line was extended to Kollam Junction. The railway line between Trivandrum Central and Ernakulam Junction via Kottayam was converted to broad gauge in 1976.
As of 2016, an electrified double broad gauge railway line exists and at this station, 40 trains stop. Nagpur Airport is at distance of 105 kilometers. It is one of the cleanest railway station in Nagpur rail mandal.
Sangrur railway station is at an elevation of and was assigned the station code – SAG. This station is located on the single track, Broad gauge , Ludhiana-Jakhal line. It is well connected to a number of major cities.
The Kolari railway () is the northernmost railway in Finland and goes between Tornio and Kolari. It is long. The railway is not electrified and it has Finnish broad gauge. It connects to the Oulu–Tornio railway in Tornio.
Kotkapura railway station is at an elevation of and was assigned the code – KKP. The station is located on the single track, Broad gauge Bhatinda - Firozpur railway line. It is well connected to a number of major cities.
Currently this line is undergoing gauge conversion, from metre to broad gauge. In March 2019 the section between Botad Junction and Hadala Bhal stations was commissioned (67 km), remaining under gauge conversion Hadala Bhal – Ahmedabad Junction (98 km).
Faridkot railway station is at an elevation of and was assigned the code – FDK. The station is located on the single track, Broad gauge Bhatinda - Firozpur railway line. It is well connected to a number of major cities.
The PA-2 units sold to the broad gauge Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro of São Paulo State in Brazil were equipped with a bar pilot and solid horizontal steel pilot beam. One of these locomotives survives.
Barasat Basirhat Railway constructed a narrow gauge line in 1914 as a part of Martin's Light Railways. The line was closed in 1955. The long wide broad gauge Barasat-Hasnabad branch line was constructed between 1957 and 1962.
Barasat Basirhat Railway constructed a narrow gauge line in 1914 as a part of Martin's Light Railways. The line was closed in 1955. The long wide broad gauge Barasat-Hasnabad branch line was constructed between 1957 and 1962.
There was a metre gauge railway line from Mandar Hill northwards to Bhagalpur and it was converted to broad gauge in 2012. The track was extended southwards to Hansdiha in 2014 and further connected to Dumka in 2015.
The Villa María and Rufino Railway (VM&RR;) (native name: Ferrocarril Villa María a Rufino) was a British-owned company that, towards the end of the 19th century, built and operated a broad gauge, , railway line in Argentina.
The Arrah–Sasaram line was opened as a narrow gauge () section of Martin's Light Railways in 1914 and was closed in 1978. A new broad gauge line was laid by Indian Railways from Sasaram to Arrah in 2006-07.
Manali is not easily approachable by rail. The nearest broad gauge railheads are at Chandigarh (), Pathankot () and Kalka (). The nearest narrow gauge railhead is at Joginder Nagar (). See Bilaspur–Leh line for the proposed railway line through this area.
The place is having one of the prominent gurdwaras of India where Guru Nanak had visited and left his sandal here and hence the gurdwara is called Gurdwara Guru Nanak Charan Paduka.It is present on Ballia-Shahganj broad gauge.
The broad-gauge railway between Mumbai and Pune runs near the Matheran Hill Railway, and the two tracks cross each other at two locations. Its ruling gradientis 1:20 (5%), and its tight curves require a speed limit of .
The port authority in Derry, Northern Ireland uses a dual gauge line in a street level network to transfer freight. Two of the city's stations are on a narrow gauge. The other two city stations are on broad gauge.
On 10th February 1860, BB&CI; started its first section from to Utran. The BB&CI; Railway was incorporated in 1855, starting with the construction of a broad gauge track from to Utran in Gujarat on the West Coast.
The two junctions are on different lines and only one short-distance train Alipurduar-Kamakhya InterCity Express (train number 15471) runs between the two junctions. Northeast Frontier Railway converted the Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line to broad gauge in 2007.
Kasol is not easily approachable by rail. The nearest broad gauge railheads are at Chandigarh (), Pathankot () and Kalka (). The nearest narrow gauge railhead is at Joginder Nagar (). See Bilaspur–Leh line for the proposed railway line through this area.
The Gondia-Nagbhir-Balharshah line was electrified in 2018. The doubling of this section is under process. The Nagpur-Nagbhir section is under conversion to broad gauge as of 2019. The electrification of the section is being done simultaneously.
The number- series/class of these locos is 7000 and are numbered from 7001 to 7020. Their class-name/specification is "BHZ–5". Here, B = Broad–gauge, H = Diesel–hydraulic, G = Ganz-MÁVAG and 5 = 5 × 100 = 500 hp.
Hendford passenger station closed on the same day, and the mixed gauge at Hendford yard was only used by transfer goods trains until the abolition of broad gauge on the branch, after which it became an ordinary goods yard.
He reported on 26 February 1863 that the original standard of engineering had been poor, and the long period of inactivity had led to deterioration; and he commented adversely on the switching arrangements for transferring narrow gauge trains from one side of the broad gauge line to the other at station platforms. The LSWR attended to the specific items and gave assurances regarding general maintenance, and were able to run narrow gauge trains between Crediton and Bideford from 2 March 1863. Brassey's lease of the Exeter & Crediton expired in July 1862; the LSWR had taken over the Exeter & Crediton and laid mixed gauge on it. It ran narrow gauge passenger trains from Exeter Queen Street to Crediton, from 1 February 1862; remarkably also broad gauge through coaches operated from Bideford to Paddington and Bristol, on the broad gauge of course, operated west of Exeter by the LSWR as successor to Brassey.
Siliguri Town railway station in 1881 In 1878, the railway line from Calcutta (later called Sealdah) station to Siliguri was in two stages – broad gauge from Calcutta to Damookeah Ghat, on the southern bank of the Padma, across the river in a ferry and then to Siliguri. In 1881, the narrow-gauge line from Siliguri to Darjeeling was added. In 1926, with the Hardinge Bridge in position, the entire Calcutta-Siliguri line was converted to broad gauge and in 1947, following the partition of India the line was severed, as a major portion of the line ran through East Pakistan. In the post-partition era, with makeshift arrangements via Barsoi and Kishanganj being metre gauge and narrow gauge, the focus shifted in 1949 to a new Siliguri Junction railway station and later still, in 1961 to the new broad- gauge station at New Jalpaiguri.
520 class locomotive, were typical of the Port Pirie passenger service during the 30 years of broad gauge operation. As a terminus for passenger trains on a through route to the nearby smelters, the station lacked a turning facility for locomotives. In the days of the narrow gauge, the double track provided a loop allowing locomotives to run around the train to re-couple and haul it back. In 1937, one of the two narrow-gauge tracks in Ellen Street was modified to dual gauge for broad-gauge trains connecting with Adelaide on a new, much more direct route via a line from Redhill. There was no other broad-gauge track to run around the train; it therefore became necessary for the locomotive to push its consist backwards at very slow speed for 920 metres (1,000 yards) on the public thoroughfare, under the guidance of the train’s guard.
A metre gauge line of South Indian Railway Company, opened in 1891, started from Villupuram in South Arcot district and passed through Katpadi and Chittoor to Pakala. The Katpadi-Gudur line, covering Tirupati, has since been converted to broad gauge.
Class 6400 are 2,600 hp diesel-electric broad-gauge locomotives. Their model are WDM-2B and WDM-2CA. They have a wheel configuration of Co-Co with gear ratio 65:18. All are fitted with air brake and AAR coupling.
The term "medium gauge" had different meanings throughout history, depending on the local dominant gauge in use. In 1840s, the Irish gauge was considered a medium gauge compared to Brunel's broad gauge and the narrow gauge, nowadays being standard gauge.
Although part of the GWR, the S&CR; was never converted to Brunel's Broad Gauge; but it did contribute to the ending of the Brunel system because it meant that the company had to operate two different systems and tranship goods.
The area covered by the fort is reported to be . The fort is located from Hampi, the UNESCO World Heritage Site and from Bangalore. Chitradurga railway line is connected to main line at ChikkajajurBangalore/Mysore – Arasikere broad gauge railway line.
The broad gauge railway line from Salem to Karur passes through this place. Mohanur to Vangal Bus route Bridge opened for traffic. The State Highways-95 is originating at Mohanur. This road passes through Namakkal, Sendamangalam and end at rasipuram.
The town is connected to Tirunelveli by a broad- gauge train track, with a train station at Thiruchendur. The Chendur Express train runs daily between Chennai Egmore Junction and Tiruchendur. Passenger train services are also available between Tirunelveli and Tiruchendur.
Previously, all tracks were metre gauge but most have been converted to Broad gauge. The metre gauge track from Raxaul to Narkatiaganj was converted in August 2018. It is likely that this route will continue to be used by other trains.
A portion of the bridge across the Dharla River at was washed away by floods in 1988. The conversion of the long Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line to broad gauge in 2007, and its subsequent recommissioning, had a station at New Gitaldaha.
Anklav is situated on Vadodara–Kathana broad gauge railway line. It is a taluka place having Taluka Govt. Offices like Taluka Panchayat, Mamlatdar Office, Taluka Health Office. Community Health center is running 24 hours to provide Primary & Emergency Health services.
Today Federico Lacroze has a direct connection to the line B underground station of the same name. Like the Buenos Aires Underground system, the Urquiza line uses the rather than the broad gauge used in other interurban railways of Buenos Aires.
By Rail, Take a train going up to Ahmedabad, Gandhidham or Bhuj Station.direct trains between Bhuj-Ahmedabad on meter gauge line and for Bombay on the broad gauge line from Gandhidham. Train Number Train Name Train Source Dep.Time Train Destination Arr.
The Indian locomotive class XA was a class of light axle load "Pacific" type steam locomotives used on broad gauge lines in British India, and then in post-partition India and Pakistan.Hughes 1976, p. 13.Marshall 2009, pp. 36–42, 47.
Therefore, metre gauge trains stopped operating from Rewari. This obviated the need for change of trains at Rewari which no longer remained a gauge-change station. Broad gauge trains now connected Rewari to various cities in all parts of India.
During the 1860s and 1870s the Avonside company built broad gauge and standard gauge engines for many British companies, large and small but they also built up a considerable export business. Unfortunately detailed company records from this period have not survived.
Sono Nis Press, Victoria BC.Hughes, Hugh 1994 Indian Locomotives Pt. 3, Narrow Gauge 1863-1940. Continental Railway Circle. Due to increasing losses, the railway was closed in 1987. Later, the railway was converted to broad gauge and train services were resumed.
The class WDS-5 is a diesel-electric locomotive used by Indian Railways for shunting and doing departmental works. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), Diesel (D), Shunting (S) engine. The WDS-6 is used all over India.
The first line between Hyderabad and Bezwada was constructed. The first broad gauge line between Secundrabad and Wadi was constructed in 1885. Hyderabad–Manmad line work completed in 1900. Hyderabad–Jaipur meter line work started and was completed in 1906.
The Kelani Valley line extends from Colombo-Maradana east to Avissawella. Originally a narrow-gauge line, it was converted to broad gauge between 1991 and 1997. The line connects the suburbs of Colombo in the Colombo District with the city.
The class WDS-6 is a diesel-electric locomotive used by Indian Railways for shunting and doing departmental works. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), Diesel (D), Shunting (S) engine. The WDS-6 is used all over India.
Total 12 locomotives of this class were manufactured by Hitachi in 1981 and classified as BEH-24, where B = Broad Gauge, E = Diesel-electric, H = Hitachi and 24 = 24×100 hp = 2,400 hp. The model of these locomotives is HFA26A.
The Kamchiq Tunnel (; Uzbek Cyrillic: Қамчиқ туннели) is a long railway tunnel in Uzbekistan, which makes it the longest tunnel in Central Asia and in ex- USSR, and the longest broad gauge railway tunnel in the world (not counting metros).
Porbandar railway station is a terminus station in the coastal city of Porbandar in the Indian state of Gujarat. It belongs to the Bhavnagar Division of Western Railways. It is one of the westernmost Broad gauge railway stations in India.
Plans for the extreme broad-gauge Breitspurbahn railway network proposed by the Nazis envisioned these railways having extensions running as far east as Kazan, Stalingrad and Baku as possible railheads, as another conceivable set of "strings" along which to place settlements.
Vijayawada station has the standard station layout, and has 10 platforms. All the tracks in the station are broad gauge and electrified. Trains have perfect traction inside the station. The seventh platform of the station is the largest of all.
The LMS (Northern Counties Committee) Class B3 4-4-0 passenger steam locomotives were rebuilds of Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (BNCR) two- cylinder compound locomotives. They operated services throughout the NCC’s broad gauge system in the north-east of Ireland.
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway India has four narrow-gauge railways: the metre-gauge Nilgiri Mountain Railway, the Kalka–Shimla Railway and the Darjeeling Himalayan and Matheran Hill Railways. UNESCO World Heritage Sites as mountain railways, they were not converted to broad gauge.
So from February 1845 the Bristol and Gloucester Railway was effectively part of the Midland Railway. The new owner bought out Stothert and Slaughter's working contract and their rolling stock in July 1845, but continued to work the Bristol and Gloucester line on the broad gauge, using the Great Western tracks between Standish and Gloucester station, and the C&GWUR; station at Gloucester, although the owning company had not yet reached there. The Coalpit Heath branch of the old Bristol and Gloucestershire Railway was converted to broad gauge and upgraded for locomotive use; this was ready on 9 June 1847.
Some smaller concerns selected other non-standard gauges: the Eastern Counties Railway adopted . Most of them converted to standard gauge at an early date, but the GWR's broad gauge continued to grow. The larger railway companies wished to expand geographically, and large areas were considered to be under their control. When a new independent line was proposed to open up an unconnected area, the gauge was crucial in determining the allegiance that the line would adopt: if it was broad gauge, it must be friendly to the Great Western railway; if narrow (standard) gauge, it must favour the other companies.
Originally laid as broad-gauge, dual gauge, allowing standard and broad gauge trains to run was laid in 1862. For a brief period between 1883 and 1885, the District Railway ran services between London and Windsor & Eton Central via Ealing Broadway over the GWR tracks from Slough. The Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway was formed next in August 1860 to build a line between AylesburyThe current GWR Aylesbury station, not the LNWR Aylesbury High Street and Verney Junction on the LNWR Buckinghamshire Railway. It opened in 1868 but trains never ran to Buckingham- even though Verney Junction had a connection to Banbury via Buckingham.
In 1865 the Ogmore Valley Railway had acquired the Ely Valley Extension Railway Company, which opened for mineral traffic on 16 October 1865. It served a colliery at Gilfach Goch, but at the time was separated from the OVR network, and it was worked by the GWR; the line was broad gauge. In 1873 the GWR and all the broad gauge railways in South Wales converted to the narrow (standard) gauge. This prompted the L&OR; (as successors to the OVR) to build the missing link, a new line from Blackmill (at the foot of the Ogmore Valley) to Hendreforgan, on the EVER.
The Ely Valley Extension Railway had been authorised on 28 July 1863 to build of broad gauge railway from the Ely Valley Railway at Gellyrhaid (near Hendreforgan) to a colliery at Gilfach Goch. The Ogmore Valley Railway company sought an eastward outlet for the mineral products it carried, and in 1865 it acquired the company. The EVER opened for mineral traffic on 16 October 1865, but it was physically detached from the OVR and was in any case a broad gauge line. It was worked by the Great Western Railway as part of the Ely Valley Railway, which they also worked.
The South Wales Railway was authorised in 1845 to build a broad gauge railway from near Gloucester to Milford Haven, connecting South Wales with the Great Western Railway network to London. Its route intersected the route of the Swansea Vale Railway. The SVR hoped to sell its line to the South Wales Railway, and the SWR was amenable, but did not have the Parliamentary powers to make the purchase. As a means of by-passing this obstacle, the South Wales Railway sponsored a nominally independent company, the Swansea Valley Railway, to take over the SVR and alter it to the broad gauge.
MR (NCC) locomotive policy continued BNCR practice and remained largely independent of Derby until Bowman Malcolm retired at the end of 1922. Von Borries compounds were still being built during this period. The last were two narrow gauge Class S 2-4-2 tank engines outshopped in 1919 and 1920. In 1920, the NCC's broad gauge stock included twenty five 2-4-0 tender locomotives as compared with twenty two 4-4-0s. The remaining broad gauge locomotives were sixteen 0-6-0s, four 2-4-0 saddle tanks and two 0-4-0 dock tanks.
In the Railway Budget 2005-06, it was sped up to the Broad Gauge Super fast category (broad gauge trains with 55 km/h or above average commercial speed) without withdrawing any previous intermediate stops. The new number assigned in the Superfast category were 2505 from Guwahati and 2506 from New Delhi. With the new five digit numbering scheme introduced during the tenure of Mamata Banerjee as Railway Minister, the service numbers are now 12505 and 12506. The train now starts from Kamakhya Junction Railway Station at Maligaon and run up to Anand Vihar Terminal instead of Guwahati & New Delhi.
The route has a major broad gauge railway line. Electrification of this double-track corridor is in progress with assistance from Central Organization for Railway Electrification (CORE). Additionally, the old metre gauge line (recently converted to a broad- gauge line) connects Siliguri Junction with Islampur in North Dinajpur District of West Bengal, via Bagdogra (the only airport of national interest in the corridor) and the bordering towns of Adhikari, Galgalia, Thakurganj, Naxalbari and Taiabpur with Nepal. National Highway 10 connects Siliguri to Guwahati in Assam, which is the most critical highway in the region, owing to insurgents operating in the vicinity.
Robertson's investment would be the start of a long friendship between Beyer and Robertson (Beyer became the godfather of Robertson's daughter Annie born in 1854). The civil engineer was responsible for the lines of the Northern division of the Great Western Railway (Brunel was the South) and a friend of Sir Daniel Gooch, its chief locomotive superintendent. He could therefore procure orders for the GWR. The first order was for ten Beyer, Peacock express 2-2-2 tender express engines of standard (rather than broad) gauge – the first standard gauge locomotives ordered by the GWR (Swindon were still building broad gauge engines).
This applied even where locomotives had carried names under their previous owner (indeed, these names were usually removed by the GWR) and even when the locomotives had originally belonged to the GWR and had been sold out of stock. Towards the end of the broad gauge era, a number of locomotives were built to a design that enabled them to be easily converted from one gauge to the other (hence the term 'convertibles' used for these locomotives). These engines also carried numbers in the standard gauge series, whether or not they were running in broad gauge form.
The lines through Salisbury and on to Gawler remained with the STA, since they were part of the suburban system. AN had responsibility for the Port Pirie line from Salisbury Junction northwards, but needed to run its trains over STA tracks between Adelaide and Salisbury. In 1982, AN converted the broad gauge Salisbury Junction to Port Pirie line to standard gauge (and diverted it to Crystal Brook at the northern end). A new standard gauge line was built through the Salisbury station area, completely separate from the broad gauge tracks and passing west of the Gawler line platforms.
After the track from Manmad to Parbhani was converted to broad gauge in 1992–95 and the track from Parbhani to Mudkhed and Nizamabad was still not converted, the train was re-routed between Kacheguda and Manmad via Bidar and Parbhani in 1995–1996 because the metre gauge had been converted between Vikarabad and Parbhani by then. In 2007, the train again diverted to its old route which had been converted into broad gauge in 2002–2003. Ajanta Express (Kacheguda-Manmad) was the fastest metre gauge train in India with an average speed of in 1967.
That being the case the GWR had the right to buy back the half share of the tramway, and the B&GR; considered it advisable to consult the GWR on the dock access plans. Isambard Kingdom Brunel visited Gloucester in person to consider the matter and agreed, provided that broad gauge rails were laid as well as standard gauge, straddling the plateway track. This requirement, which would have involved a three-way mixed gauge, was not, in the event, proceeded with. In the summer of 1844 the broad gauge station at Gloucester was opened to another line, the Bristol and Gloucester Railway.
Government of Bangladesh and Government of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU in 21 May 2013 for linking Agartala and Akhaura railway stations to connect Bangladesh Railway with the north eastern states. The total length of the track will be 15.054 km, of which only 5 km falls on the Indian side with the remaining track in Bangladesh. The tracks would be laid in Meter gauge on broad gauge format so that it could be converted into broad gauge when necessary. The project is funded by India and is expected to cost around Rs 271 crore.
A line was built from Balaklava to Brinkworth and Gladstone by 1880 and later extended to Wilmington. The Hamley Bridge – Balaklava – Brinkworth – Gladstone line was converted to broad gauge in 1927, making Gladstone a break- of-gauge junction. In 1969, when the line from Port Pirie to Broken Hill was converted to standard gauge, Gladstone became a three-gauge break-of-gauge junction (together with Peterborough and succeeding Port Pirie, which had been reduced to two gauges). In the 1980s, the broad gauge line north of Balaklava and the narrow gauge line were closed, leaving Gladstone as a purely standard gauge station.
The transit facility in the Radhikapur-Birol sector has remained suspended since 1 April 2005.But now it has been converted to broad gauge and large good train are travelling with stone boulders from Nepal to Bangladesh through India from March 2017 and it was officially operationalised and announced open in April 2017.Tiral run flagged off by Modi and hasina, Economic Times, 6 April 2017 The railway track on the Indian side has been converted to broad gauge while that on the Bangladesh side continues to remain metre gauge. There are 13 railway stations in this branch line.
In 1851 the broad gauge was officially adopted as the standard gauge for the Province of Canada, becoming known as the Provincial gauge, and government subsidies were unavailable for railways that chose other gauges. This caused problems in interchanging freight cars with northern United States railroads, most of which were built to standard gauge or a gauge similar to it. In the 1870s, mainly between 1872 and 1874, Canadian broad-gauge lines were changed to standard gauge to facilitate interchange and the exchange of rolling stock with American railroads. Today, all Canadian railways are standard-gauge.
The South Wales Railway had been conceived as a partner with the Great Western Railway, but the financial aspect of the relationship was somewhat shaky. However, in 1862 the Great Western Railway absorbed the South Wales Railway. The broad gauge was increasingly a liability in South Wales, where much of the activity of extracting coal took place in areas served by local, narrow gauge lines, and the transshipment to broad gauge wagons was a massive deterrent. The Great Western Railway determined to convert the gauge of its lines in South Wales to what had become "standard" gauge, and did so in May 1872.
Adlestrop station was opened on 4 June 1853 by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OW&W;) as part of the section of the Cotswold Line from Wolvercot Junction to . The line was originally mixed gauge single track throughout with a narrow gauge passing loop at . The line through Adlestrop was dualled on 2 August 1858, after the sections between Wolvercot - and Handborough to Charlbury were respectively doubled on 18 November 1853 and 1 August 1854. The station had a broad gauge passing loop, but the only broad gauge train to use it was the inspection special, two days before opening.
The Royal Albert Bridge under construction in 1858 The Cornish Main Line was originally built by two separate railway companies, the West Cornwall Railway between Truro and Penzance, opened in 1852, and the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and a separate station in Truro, opened in 1859. The West Cornwall Railway was itself based on the Hayle Railway, opened in 1837 as a purely local mineral railway. Rail travel from Penzance to London was possible from 1860 when the West Cornwall company was given access to the Cornwall Railway’s Truro station, but the West Cornwall trains were standard gauge and the Cornwall Railway was broad gauge, so through passengers had to change trains there and goods had to be transhipped into wagons of the other gauge at Truro. The impecunious West Cornwall company sold its railway to the more powerful broad gauge Associated Companies, dominated by the Great Western Railway, and the new owners converted the West Cornwall line to broad gauge.
Uzbekistan uses a modified Talgo 250 on the Tashkent–Bukhara high-speed rail line at 250 km/h. South Asia primarily uses the broad gauge for its passenger rail services and the fastest train presently is Train 18 at 180 km/h, though sustained speeds are considerably lower, but it is planned to introduce a higher speed Train 20 that is capable of 200 km/h in the next couple of years. A number of semi high speed railway projects in broad gauge are being built with sustained speeds of 200 km/h with future-proofing for 250 km/h. The current high speed railway project is being built in standard gauge due to limitations imposed by the Japanese consortium funding the project, however feasibility reports by both the French and Germans preferred a broad gauge high speed railway and stated that costs of train procurement from Alstom or Siemens would be mitigated through an order of at least thirty train sets.
Zafar Ali Naqvi and Jitin Prasada made a promise of getting the meter gauge railway track of the district converted to broad gauge during 2009 Parliamentary elections. Zafar Naqvi raised questions about "Lucknow Pilibhit gauge conversion" on 08-Dec-2011 in the parliament with Ministry of Railway and took this up. Later in the 2010–11 budget survey was proposed by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in the Parliament on 24 February 2010; survey was completed as per Railway Budget 2011–12 with a mention that work will be up done in the 12th Plan. Foundation stone was laid in Kheri on 2 February 2013 for broad gauge conversion of the Aishbagh to Pilibhit via Sitapur and Lakhimpur Kheri track by Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the then Minister of State for Railways along with Zafar Naqvi and Jitin Prasad. The centre government in 2013 allocated 927 crore rupees (9,27,00,00,000) for broad gauge conversion from Aishbagh to Pilibhit.
The irony is that Mhow finally has a broad gauge connection with Indore but regular train services are yet to commence. According to Hindu religious texts, Janapav Kuti near Mhow is said to be the birthplace of Parashurama, an avatar of Vishnu.
The LMS (Northern Counties Committee) Class A1 4-4-0 passenger steam locomotives were rebuilds of Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Class A two-cylinder compound locomotives. They operated services throughout the NCC’s broad gauge system in the north-east of Ireland.
When gauge conversions took place around 1997, Ledo became the last and the easternmost station. The wide broad gauge continued up to Tirap for railway sidings. Beyond that the remnants of the wide metre gauge track to Lekhapani was visible (as of 2005).
It is located along Railway Road. The inter-state bus terminal Sindhi Camp is also close to the station. It is linked to other parts of the country by meter gauge and broad gauge lines. It is the busiest railway station in Rajasthan.
The Fakiragram–Dhubri line was opened in September 2010 after conversion to -wide broad gauge. Dhubri railway station had initially been opened in 1904. Flood waters had washed away the tracks in 1988. The long line was ready after gauge conversion in 2010.
Dharmabad railway station is a railway station belonging to Hyderabad railway division of South Central Railway. The station is situated in Nanded district of Maharashtra, India. Its station code is DAB. The station is on a single track non-electrified broad gauge line.
It has not been used for freight since the broad gauge line was isolated in April 1995 (when the main line between Adelaide and Melbourne was converted to standard gauge) then to Limestone Coast Railway passenger tourist services in the early 2000s.
Town buses ply between Arni and Polur. In this town, Railway Station is located in the name of "Arni Road" Station Code: ARV. Arni city is easily accessible through this station. previously it was meter gauge now it was changed to broad gauge.
The New Changrabandha-New Cooch Behar broad gauge line was built as an extension as a part of the New Maynaguri–Jogighopa rail line to provide an alternate link from North Bengal to Assam and was opened to public on 21 February 2016.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Magra Hat railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Dhamua railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Uttar Radhanagar railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Dakshin Durgapur railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Sangrampur railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Deula railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
From 1878 the GWR Hawthorn class engines Melling and Ostrich were in use, followed by several member of the 3541 class of 0-4-2ST, based at Millbay. The last broad gauge train on the line was 4-4-0ST no 2134 Heron.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Hotar railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
There were some instances of mixed gauge trains being run, where wagons of each gauge were run in a single train. The legacy of the broad gauge can still be seen where there seems to be an unnecessarily wide space between station platforms.
It had a unique broad gauge that would allow vehicles, as well as passengers to ascend and descend the hill. The cars were hoisted by a pair of Robinson & Rea engines.A Century of Inclines, pp. 7-8. The incline ran until 1935.
Forbesganj Junction Railway Station lies on Barauni-Katihar, Saharsa and Purnia sections. There are direct trains available to the major cities (/, etc.) of the country, apart from local trains running between and . The Saharsa-Forbesganj section is under construction into Broad Gauge.
Damnagar has a railway station on the outskirts of village. This is a beautiful, small railway station with broad gauge railway line. The train running on diesel engine works on this route.and train route Dhola Mahuva run with Diesel Engine with considerable speed.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Netra railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Basuldanga railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Gurudas Nagar railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
David Burke. Kings of the Iron Horse. Methuen. 1985. p118-121. To carry the heavier trains, the rehabilitation plan included the strengthening of track and bridges, and the conversion of the mid north narrow gauge system (the Western division) to broad gauge.
Both these new railways were engineered by Brunel and were initially broad gauge. Brunel also designed the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway, but this was not opened until 25 August 1863, nearly four years after his death. It terminated at Temple Meads.
Ferrocarriles Mediterráneos S.A. (FEMED) was an Argentine company which operated a broad gauge railway line between Córdoba and Villa María originally built by the British-owned Central Argentine Railway, which became part of Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre after railway nationalization in 1948.
It is located at 353 m above sea level and has three platforms. As of 2016, electrified of existing double Broad Gauge railway line is in progress and at this station, 81 trains stops. Khajuraho Airport, is at distance of 111 kilo meters.
It is located at 339 m above sea level and has three platforms. As of 2016, electrified of existing double Broad Gauge railway line is in progress and at this station, 108 trains stops. Bhopal Airport, is at distance of 126 kilometers.
19-20, 24. Class WG no. 9616 9619 at Agra After the war, a new design was produced and placed in production in 1950. The Class WG was the main post-war broad gauge freight locomotive type of the Indian Railways (IR).
The Hotgi-Gadag railway line was metre gauge and converted to broad gauge in stages. The conversion was finally completed in December 2008. Now Hotgi is connected to Hubli and Hospet by direct trains. Bangalore-Solapur train now runs via Bijapur and Hotgi.
Katangi railway station (station code KGE) is a railway station in Katangi block of Balaghat district in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is on a broad-gauge network, in the South East Central Railway zone. It is connected with Waraseoni, Balaghat, and Gondia.
4-4-0ST Heron as rebuilt in 1872 South Devon Railway locomotives were broad gauge locomotives that operated over the South Devon Railway, Cornwall Railway, and West Cornwall Railway in England. They were, at times, operated by contractors on behalf of the railways.
This stationserves Bagdogra and adjacent areas. Bagdogra railway station is on Siliguri-Aluabari broad gauge single line via Thakurganj. This station is halting point for 14 trains. ;Matigara Railway Station: Matigara Railway Station (station code MTRA) is situated at Mathapari, West Bengal.
The station lies on the 312 km long 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge Lumding–Sabroom railway line which comes under the Lumding railway division of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is a single line without electrification.
In May 1850 he became the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Locomotive Engineer. Under his control the railway set up new locomotive works at Bristol Temple Meads. These opened in 1851 and built most of the railway's new broad gauge locomotives from 1859.
The station lies on the 312 km long 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge Lumding–Sabroom railway line which comes under the Lumding railway division of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is a single line without electrification.
The station lies on the 312 km long 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge Lumding–Sabroom railway line which comes under the Lumding railway division of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is a single line without electrification.
Budhni railway station is a small railway station of Budhni city, Madhya Pradesh. Its code is BNI. Budhni is a small broad gauge railway station of Bhopal-Itarsi. Budhni is well connected to Chhindwara, Indore, Bhopal, Gorakhpur Junction, Jhansi, Itarsi, Amritsar and Mumbai.
This branch started as a broad- gauge siding to Tufts Loading Bank. It was extended along the former tramroad to Parkhill Level in 1874 and to Dyke's (or Whitecroft) Level in 1876. A further extension was made to Parkgutter in 1890–91.
Broad-gauge Velaro fleet relaunches Russia's high speed programme. Railway Gazette International November 2006. Four of the trains (EVS2) are equipped for both 3 kV DC and operation. The total length of each ten-car train is , carrying up to 600 passengers.
The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad (A&S;) was a broad gauge railroad from Albany to Binghamton, New York, operating 1851 to 1870. It was subsequently leased by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and later merged into the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
The station lies on the 312 km long 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge Lumding–Sabroom railway line which comes under the Lumding railway division of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is a single line without electrification.
The station lies on the 312 km long 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge Lumding–Sabroom railway line which comes under the Lumding railway division of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is a single line without electrification.
The station lies on the 312 km long 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge Lumding–Sabroom railway line which comes under the Lumding railway division of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is a single line without electrification.
The station lies on the 312 km long 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge Lumding–Sabroom railway line which comes under the Lumding railway division of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is a single line without electrification.
The first railway in the island state of Tasmania was broad gauge , but following the success of the narrow gauge in Queensland, a third rail was fitted, to allow conversion to narrow gauge. The state's rail network is now entirely narrow gauge.
Both lines were engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but the South Wales Railway was built on the broad gauge. It had a station called Llantrisant, although it was two miles from the town of that name.The station is now known as Pontyclun.
Joachimsthaler also produced important research into Hitler's desired broad-gauge railway, with a track width of 3000 millimeters, more than twice as wide as the European standard track of 1435 millimeters. His first study, published in 1981, is still the standard work.
It was merged with Eastern Bengal Railway in 1903. The long wide broad gauge line from Barasat to Hasnabad was constructed between 1957 and 1962. In 1932, the Calcutta Chord line was built over the Willingdon Bridge joining Dum Dum and Dankuni.
The Kolkata-Siliguri main line was converted to broad gauge in stages. The Shakole-Santahar section was converted in 1910–1914, when Hardinge Bridge was under construction. The Hardinge Bridge was opened in 1915. One of the biggest railway station at Natore district.
On 22 August 1904, a 14.2-kilometre narrow gauge branch-line was constructed from Wandilo, 13 kilometres north of Mount Gambier, to Glencoe. The branch closed in June 1957 when the Mount Gambier Wolseley line was all converted to only broad gauge.
Churu lies on the Delhi-Rewari- Bikaner broad gauge railway line and is also connected to Jaipur via Sikar and Ringas. Electrification of the Rewari - Churu - Bikaner track is going on. Electrification of Loharu - Rewari section of this route has been completed.
The number-series/class of these locos is 6000 and are numbered from 6000 to 6017. Their class- name/specification is "BEA–20". Here, B = Broad-gauge, E = Diesel–electric, A = Alco and 20 = 20 × 100 = 2,000 hp. Previously, the class-name was ALU-20.
The company Knorr bought it and it started to be used in Germany for some heavy trains and some suburban trains in Paris. In the 1930s, the Soviets improved upon and then decided to make this coupler standard across the Russian broad gauge railway system.
During World War I, the personnel of the units and was built about 300 kilometers broad gauge railway and up to 4,000 km of narrow gauge, restored more than 4,600 miles of track and nearly 5000 miles of telephone and telegraph lines, railway tracks.
The LMS Northern Counties Committee (NCC) Class Y was a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotives formed when two LMS Fowler Class 3F engines (Nos.7456 and 7553) were regauged from to the Irish broad gauge in 1944 becoming NCC Nos.18 and 19.
The roads to Thalavoor and Pattazhy pass through Avaneesaram. Avaneeswaram is connected to Kollam city by Kollam-Punalur Broad gauge railway line. Avaneeshwaram railway station (Code: AVS) falls under the Madurai railway division of the Southern Railway Zone. It is a 'D-Class' Adersh Station.
National Highway no 15 (Bhatinda-Kandla) passes through the district. The total road length in the district is about . The district is connected by broad gauge railway line of North Western Railway. Samadari-Bhildi branch line passes through the district connecting Jalore and Bhinmal towns.
The station is spread over an area of , maintained by 17 employees. The station has 03 platforms and all the tracks are broad gauge and electrified. Almost all platforms are in same size. The station has East and West terminals equipped with reservation counters.
8ft 10in Pearson 4-2-4T no. 2002 (previously no. 40) at Exeter in 1876 The 14 Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-4T locomotives were broad gauge 4-2-4T steam locomotives built to three different designs. The first entered service in 1853.
The nearest Broad Gauge railway station from Walidpur is Muhammadabad Railway station which is located in and around 6.3 kilometer distance. The following table shows other railway stations and its distance from Mamakudi. Indara Jn railway station 38.3 km. Mau Jn railway station 26.1 km.
The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a wide Broad Gauge Railway from Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour in 1883. The electrification of the Sealdah railway station to Diamond Harbour including Bahirpuya railway station was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1965–67.
The company was authorised to make agreements with the Treffry Estate Trustees to convert the Newquay tramway line to broad gauge and take it over, connecting Newquay to the Cornwall Railway. The company would reach Hendra, "affording direct communication with Newquay, Par, Fowey and Falmouth".
It is located at above sea level and has two platforms. As of 2016, a single broad gauge railway line exists at this station, and 14 trains stop at Pernem. The Goa Airport situated at Dabolim is at distance of from this railway station.
The district is traversed by broad gauge train network connecting Gorakhpur and Delhi via Gonda, Burhwal, bypassing Lucknow and Hardoi. The major towns of the district Sidhauli, Mishrikh, Maholi, Hargaon, Biswan, Mahmudabad etc.are well connected with rails. Tamabur-Ahmedabad is not connected with rails.
Salur- Bobbili Railbus Bobbili Railway junction is in Visakhapatnam division of East Coast Railway zone. It is at Mallampeta (which is named after the goddess Mallamma). It is on the Vizianagaram-Raipur railway line. There is a broad- gauge railway line between Bobbili and Salur.
The Pandharpur-Miraj section was also narrow gauge earlier and the conversion to broad gauge is done on priority. This is very important route to Goa. Trains will help them achieve Konkan and Goan markets and hence the poor economy of these people will improve.
The Oberweißbacher Bergbahn is a German railway in the Thuringian Highland, Thuringia. Since 1922 it connects Obstfelderschmiede (Mellenbach-Glasbach) with the village Cursdorf. The train consists of 1.351 km broad gauge cable railway and a connects to 2.635 km standard gauge electrified adhesion railway.
431.973 ha of land to be acquired. Land acquisition has commenced in the Gazole-Itahar sector with initial fund sanctions. As of August 2018, further sanctions are awaited. New broad gauge line from Kaliaganj to Buniadpur (33.10 km) was included in the budget 2010-11.
It was built as a broad gauge line but dual gauge track was laid in 1862. For a period from 1863, Metropolitan Railway trains served the line. Between 1 March 1883 and 30 September 1885 the branch was also served by the Metropolitan District Railway.
Broad gauge trains of Indian railways running, between Gorakhpur and Nautanwa/ Gonda passes through Campierganj 7 km away from this village. Also, the nearest market place to this village is Campierganj, Pharenda, Dhani bazar, Pipeeganj, Paniara and Mehdaval Bazar, in range of 20 km.
As of 2015, the Palakkad–Pollachi line is a Indian broad gauge railway line. Before the conversion which was completed in April 2015, the line was formerly partly 1676 mm gauge (Palakkad Junction to Palakkad Town) and partly , between Palakkad Junction and Pollachi Junction.
The other two were both 2-4-0s on the Great Western Railway (GWR) – no. 7, built in February 1886 for the standard gauge, and no. 8 built in May 1886 for the broad gauge. No. 7 had high-pressure cylinders diameter, low-pressure .
Charfield railway station served the village of Charfield in South Gloucestershire, England. The station was on the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, originally a broad gauge line overseen by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but later taken over by the Midland Railway and converted to standard gauge.
A narrow-gauge railway is one where the distance between the inside edges of the rails is less than . Historically, the term was sometimes used to refer to standard- gauge railways, to distinguish them from broad-gauge railways, but this use no longer applies.
The new link now connects Karachi (Pakistan) to Jodhpur (India) by the new train service Thar Express. In 2005, work started on converting the metre gauge railway line to Khokhrapar to broad gauge. Mirpurkhas Railway Station has one of the longest platforms in Pakistan.
The ALCO RSD-16 is a diesel locomotive, built by American Locomotive Company. The engine weights approximately 108 metric tonne (106.3 imperial tons). The locomotive is used exclusively on railroads in Argentina having been built for use on the broad gauge routes in the country.
It lies at the end of a long Nagapattinam - Velankanni broad gauge line. The foundation stone of the line was laid in 1999 and it was completed in 2010 at a cost of . The station belongs to the Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone.
The Howrah–Delhi line of East Indian Railway Company was ready up to Naini in 1864 and after the Old Naini Bridge was completed through trains started running in 1865–66. The long -wide broad gauge Chunar-Robertsganj-Churk line was constructed in 1954.
From 1879 no broad gauge trains were timetabled along the branch, although they continued to operate on the main line until 20 May 1892. In the meantime, the Bristol and Exeter Railway had been amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1876.
There are 116 bridges in Thiruvananthapuram District. Thiruvananthapuram Central Station Rail transport in the district is operated by Southern Railway zone of Indian Railways. Thiruvananthapuram is connected to the rest of the country by broad gauge railway line. of railway line passes through the district.
As Minister of Railways, he visited Samastipur on 2 January 1975 to declare the Samastipur- Darbhanga broad gauge railway line open. A bomb explosion on the dais seriously injured him. He was rushed to the railway hospital at Danapur where he died the next day.
The Purulia-Ranchi line was opened as a wide narrow gauge railway in 1907. It was named Ranchi-Purulia Railway and operated by Bengal Nagpur Railway. The Kotshila-Ranchi sector was converted to wide broad gauge in 1962 and the Purlia-Kotshila sector in 1992.
It is in the Lumding railway division of the Northeast Frontier Railway Zone of the Indian Railway. It has an average elevation of . The railway line has single broad gauge track from Lumding junction in Assam to Agartala in West Tripura district of Tripura.
Vale Mining of Brazil ordered a set of 7 updated locomotives designated as the SD80ACe model. These locomotives feature Tier 1 compliant 20-710G3C engines. The design is currently for export only, and these specific locomotives will run on Vale Mining's broad gauge trackage.
Roads from Dumka, Deoghar, Godda and Bhagalpur intersect at Hansdiha. NH 133 connects Deoghar and Godda. Dumka and Bhagalpur are connected by State Highway which may be upgraded to National Highway. The Dumka- Bhagalpur broad gauge railway line via Mandar Hill connects the village.
Initially the railway was worked by GWR broad-gauge Metropolitan Class steam locomotives and rolling stock. Soon after the opening disagreement arose between the Met and the GWR over the need to increase the frequency, and the GWR withdrew its stock in August 1863.
The Okha railway station is one of the western broad gauge railway stations in India. It serves the port of Okha. There are trains to different destinations in India like Mumbai, Somnath, Howrah, Nathdwara, Gorakhpur, Puri, Guwahati, Rameswaram, Kochi, Tuticorin, Varanasi, Dehradun and Jaipur .
It has two platforms. It has a dual broad- gauge track, and is considered a "halt" station. There are 14 trains which halt here, but no originating or terminating trains in this rather small station. It is located in the Salcete taluka of Goa.
The Geelong–Ballarat railway line is a broad-gauge railway in western Victoria, Australia between the cities of Geelong and Ballarat. Towns on the route include Bannockburn, Lethbridge, Meredith, Elaine and Lal Lal. Major traffic includes general freight from the Mildura line, and grain.
The Locomotive in South Africa - A Brief History of Railway Development. Chapter II - The Cape Government Railways (Continued). South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, October 1943. pp. 731-734. All the broad gauge 2-4-0T locomotives were dismantled, with the exception of their boilers.
After a washout of the railway embankment and two bridges, the track between Janakpur and Bijayalpura (22 km railway line) was closed in 2001. The remaining Janakpur–Jaynagar railway track was converted to broad gauge in 2018. The extension to Bardibas remains under construction.
Tirupati West Halt railway station (station code:TPW) is located in Chittoor districtof the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It serves as the second station besides Tirupati main station under Guntakal railway division of South Coast Railway zone. It is a broad gauge electrified line.
It covers an area of 5.87 square miles (15.2 km²). It is on Amritsar-Delhi Broad Gauge Main Line. A Class-I airfield at Adampur is situated at a distance of 19 km. The airfield is linked with Jalandhar Cantonment by rail and road.
The Wadi-Secunderabad line was built in 1874 with financing by the Nizam of Hyderabad. It later became part of Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway. The Vikrabad-Bidar wide broad gauge line was opened in 1932. The long Raichur-Gadwal railway track was opened in 2013.
Even then a daily broad gauge coal train of the Bristol and Exeter Railway ran to and from Parkfield colliery, and the broad gauge rails had to be maintained as far as Westerleigh, and on the branch. The work was brought into use on 22 May 1854. Approaching Gloucester, the new line diverged from the GWR at Tuffley Junction on to the Tuffley Loop, which made a westerly sweep and joined the other lines from west to east at Gloucester, enabling a form of direct running. However it was not possible to run directly to the Midland Railway passenger or goods stations, which were situated as a terminus.
When the Bristol and Gloucester Railway was first constructed, the broad gauge track was laid with the standard track inside it, the first example of mixed gauge track in the country, between Mangotsfield and Westerleigh, a distance of about .The title of the first mixed gauge is contested by Williams (on page 37): "The Act for the line between Cheltenham and Gloucester called for the rails to be of the same standard gauge as the B&G.; The C&GWU; was a broad gauge line, so the first ever mixed-gauge section was laid between the two towns," but in fact, this opened much later, on 23 October 1847.
This line is in poor condition and used only for collecting grain from silos in small towns between Ouyen and the South Australian border, as the Victorian part is broad gauge, but the line from Pinnaroo to Tailem Bend has been converted to standard gauge, with no facility for handling the break of gauge. The line was used for interstate freight and The Overland as a broad gauge connection while the main Melbourne to Adelaide line (through Bordertown) was being converted from broad to standard gauge in 1995. Property became available for purchase in 1910, and much of it was cleared for sheep grazing, and crops of wheat and oats.
A standard gauge track was completed parallel with the broad gauge track from Albury to Melbourne in 1962. The broad gauge track has been converted to standard gauge between Seymour and Albury. The Shepparton line was built from Mangalore to Shepparton in 1880 and extended to the New South Wales Government Railways at Tocumwal at a break-of-gauge in 1908. V/Line passenger services run as far as Shepparton. The Bendigo line was completed in 1862, with extensions were opened to Echuca in 1864, and Swan Hill in 1890, followed by a number of lines throughout the north-west corner of the state.
The proliferation of standard gauge railways serving the South Wales mineral areas emphasised the inconvenience of the broad gauge on the former South Wales Railway lines. Whatever its technical merits, the discontinuity requiring transshipment of loads was a major commercial disadvantage. The Great Western Railway decided to convert the gauge of the SWR lines and its own lines connecting with them. This was done in a large scale operation in 1872, and in a short space of time the broad gauge had been eliminated on South Wales, enabling the GWR to develop mineral haulage from the area to London, West of England and South Coast destinations.
The Carillon and Grenville Railway (CAGR) was a broad gauge portage railway in Quebec, running approximately between the towns of Carillon and Grenville on the north bank of the Ottawa River. It provided a through-route from Ottawa to Montreal via steamships on either side of the Long Sault Rapids. It was one of Canada's earliest railways, opened in 1854, and was the last operational broad gauge railway in Canada when it closed in 1910. Although it was the shortest railway in North America, used for only one round trip a day, and quickly rendered redundant by other railways in the area, the CAGR nevertheless has a storied history.
Oil originating at Pithole could move via the Oil City and Pithole and the Warren and Franklin to Oil City. It was not limited to further movement on the Warren and Franklin; the broad-gauge Atlantic and Great Western laid a standard-gauge rail on its track through Oil City, so oil tankers from the standard-gauge railroads could be moved to oil yards on the west side of Oil Creek and their contents transferred to broad-gauge cars. On December 10, 1866, George V. Forman was appointed sequestrator for the Oil City and Pithole. He continued to direct the operations of the railroad on behalf of creditors for several years.
The Jodhpur–Bikaner line was extended to Bathinda in 1901–02 to connect it with the metre gauge section of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway and the meter gauge of North Western Railway Delhi–Fazilka line via Hanumangarh. In 1926, the workshop at Bikaner (Lalgarh) was set up to carry out periodic overhauling of metre gauge coaches and wagons. Sometime around or prior to 1991, the construction work for the conversion from meter gauge to wide broad gauge of the Jodhpur–Bikaner line, along with the link to Phulera, were started, and it was already functioning as broad gauge Jodhpur–Merta City–Bikaner–Bathinda line by 2008.
Riverside station in the early 1960s PCC cars were initially built in the United States by the St. Louis Car Company (SLCCo) and Pullman Standard. Clark Equipment built the only aluminum-body PCC< as well as all narrow gauge B1 trucks for Los Angeles, all the standard and broad gauge B2 trucks both air- and all-electric, and the B2B trucks used under PRCo 1725–1799 and Toronto 4500–4549. SLCCo built all B3 trucks, both standard and broad gauge. PCC cars for Canadian cities were assembled in Montreal, Quebec by Canadian Car and Foundry from bodies and trucks supplied by St. Louis Car.
On 29 May 1854 the Midland Railway laid a third rail along their line to Gloucester to provide mixed gauge so that it could operate standard gauge passenger trains while broad gauge goods trains could still run to collieries north of Bristol. Sidings at South Wales Junction allowed traffic to be transhipped between wagons on the two different gauges. The GWR continued to operate its trains on the broad gauge, but on 3 September 1873 it opened the standard gauge Bristol and North Somerset Railway. This had a junction nearly from the station on the London line and so mixed gauge was extended to that point.
The idea of building a Russian gauge broad-gauge railway line from Haniska pri Kosiciach station to Europe was first suggested by Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin in May 2006 at the Strategic Partnership 1520 international forum. In 2008, Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia and Austria set up a joint company to build the broad-gauge line from the Slovak city of Košice to the international logistics terminal in Vienna. The company was given the name Breitspur Planungsgesellschaft mbH and is equally owned by the national railway companies of the participating countries (ÖBB, ŽSR, UZ and Russian Railways). On 6 April 2010, a four-party agreement was signed between the participating countries.
This station is well connected to almost all parts of the country except Goa. Also this station ranked 10th cleanest railway station in India in 2016 survey and came among the top 100 booking stations of Indian railway. NJP is halting point for 154 trains and it originates 16 trains daily with 4 rajdhanis and 1 shatabdi express. Siliguri Junction railway station ;Siliguri Junction: Siliguri Junction railway station (station code SGUJ) established in 1949 is another major broad gauge and narrow gauge railway station of Siliguri. Until 2011 it was the only triple gauge (broad gauge, meter gauge and narrow gauge) railway station in India.
The first service started in 1915 from Pollachi to Podanur Line as a meter gauge section and in 2008 the station was closed for the gauge conversion of the Didugul - Podanur. The old meter gauge track on the stretch was in use for 110 years since the first train chugged in 1898 before it was closed 2008 when work began to convert the meter gauge railway line to broad gauge as part of the Dindugul - Palakkad Section. On 24 March 2017, CRS successfully completed its speed trial and inspection along with Podanur - Pollachi newly laid broad gauge line. The inspection was very satisfactory according to CRS.
On the British Great Western Railway the gauge was supposed to allow high speed, but the company had difficulty with locomotive design in the early years, losing much of the advantage, and rapid advances in permanent way and suspension technology allowed standard-gauge speeds to approach broad-gauge speeds within a decade or two. On the and gauges, the extra width allowed bigger inside cylinders and greater power, a problem solvable by using outside cylinders and higher steam pressure on standard gauge. In the end, the most powerful engines on standard gauge in North America and Scandinavia far exceeded the power of any broad-gauge locomotive.
The first British locomotives to use this wheel arrangement were the broad gauge tank engine designs which appeared from 1849. The first British tender locomotive class, although of limited success, was the broad gauge Waverley class of the Great Western Railway, designed by Daniel Gooch and built by Robert Stephenson & Co. in 1855. The first American-style British tender locomotive on , designed by William Bouch for the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1860, followed American practice with two outside cylinders. Britain's major contribution to the development of the wheel arrangement was the inside cylinder version, which resulted in a steadier locomotive, less prone to oscillation at speed.
The Great Western Railway supported a nominally independent South Wales Railway that was to connect Gloucester (and thence London over the GWR) with Fishguard, forming a route to Ireland by ferry and (it was hoped) in due course North America. This railway opened through Llanelly (from Swansea to Carmarthen) on 11 October 1852, although the western terminus was altered. The South Wales Railway was built on the broad gauge, for compatibility with the Great Western Railway. In 1858 the Llanelly Harbour Commissioners obtained Parliamentary authority to build a broad gauge branch line from the SWR to the western harbour breakwater, closely following the Carmarthenshire alignment.
The Ely Valley Railway (EVR) was a broad gauge railway company in South Wales, which opened a mineral line between Llantrisant station on the South Wales Railway main line and pits at Mwyndy and Penrhiwfer in 1860. It was unsuccessful financially, and was leased to the Great Western Railway in 1861. The network suffered from being on the broad gauge when many pits and rival railways used the narrow (standard) gauge, but the GWR extended the network into Cwm Clydach and the line became heavily used. The Ely Valley Extension Railway and the Ely and Clydach Valleys Railway were nominally independent additions to the network, also controlled by the GWR.
Karuse railway station (built in 1928) on the former narrow-gauge Rapla–Virtsu line At the end of World War I and the collapse of the Russian Empire, the country was occupied by Germany and a puppet government installed. This subsequently collapsed with German defeat in World War I and Estonia became a republic in 1918. Finally, after the expulsion of invading Soviet forces during the Estonian War of Independence, Estonia became a recognised independent republic in 1920. At the time of its creation, the railways had 648 km of broad gauge and 187 km of narrow gauge track and 90 broad gauge locomotives, 72 narrow gauge locomotives plus rolling stock.
From the opening of the C&GWUR; there was a conventional broad gauge junction at Standish, where the Bristol and Gloucester Railway converged. That company was taken over by the Midland Railway and it opened an independent narrow (standard) gauge line to Gloucester on 19 May 1854, and from that date there was no connection between the lines there. When the GWR abolished the broad gauge in the Gloucester area, a junction was made once again, operative from 21 April 1873, allowing GWR trains approaching from Gloucester to run on to the Midland Railway towards Bristol in exercise of running powers. This was closed in 1887.
The conversion was the first instance of GWR broad gauge track being altered to narrow gauge.M R C Price, The Pembroke and Tenby Railway, Oakwood Press, Headington, 1986, Finally in 1871 the GWR took the decision to convert the gauge of all its broad gauge track from Swindon through Gloucester to west Wales, including all branches; some mixed gauge sections were converted to narrow-only in addition. The work was executed in April 1872 in a massive operation. On the night of Tuesday 30 April the up line from New Milford and Grange Court was closed, and single line working of a reduced train service instituted on the down line.
Older railway infrastructure on the Main line, including a gantry of semaphore signals The Main Line has a gauge of broad gauge. The Main Line is not electrified. Regular services run on diesel power. However, there are plans to electrify the commuter rail network, within Colombo.
The Assam Mail was one of the better known metre gauge trains in the Indian Railway system that was there from the pre-independence days. The train was discontinued in 1986 with the completion of the broad gauge conversion of the meter gauge line to Dibrugarh.
Magor railway station is a former station serving Magor, Monmouthshire, east of the city of Newport and west of Caldicot. It was opened as a broad gauge line with the South Wales Railway in 1850 and closed to passengers in 1964. The line was quadrupled in 1941.
The WCDS6, a YDM4 locomotive, was converted to broad gauge by the Golden Rock Railway Workshop for large industrial companies; the first one was delivered to RITES. New water and air lines were added, the control stand was modified, and it has a dual brake system.
The Parbatipur-Panchagarh and Kanchan-Biral lines are being developed as dual gauge tracks. The 9 km long track from Biral to the Bangladesh-India border is being converted to broad gauge at a cost of Tk 9.81 billion by the Western Zone of Bangladesh Railway.
The Critic (1909), p.9–11. This line was built in broad gauge to accommodate steam locomotives. Some of the line was raised on embankments to avoid swampy ground and flooding.Kingsborough (1965), p.17. The line used horse trams until 1914, when conversion to electric operation began.
Amla junction is the main junction of the Betul district. The nearest railway station is within the city. Amla accommodates a rail junction, served by broad gauge lines, which connects the sub-district to Itarsi (in the north), Nagpur (in the southeast), and Chhindwara (in the east).
Jaora railway station is a main railway station in Jaora city of Madhya Pradesh. Its code is JAO. Jaora is an important broad gauge railway station of the Ajmer - Ratlam line. Jaora is well connected to Ratlam, Ujjain via Nagda and Kota & Bundi in Rajasthan via Chittorgarh.
This wagon class was built in several variants. For example, the first series of these vans were delivered as "Grs" i.e. able to be transferred onto the Russian broad gauge network. There were also variants with steam heating (Ghs) and with both steam and electrical heating (Gehs).
The Lokmanya Nagar railway station (Station Code: LKMN), is one of the local railway stations in Indore City.railinfomakemytrip Station on the Delhi- Hyderabad Meter gauge line was founded in the 1970s. The station is equipped with one reservation counter. It is a Broad Gauge railway station.
This link remained operative till 1971. After closure of the light railways, the demand for a broad gauge line between Howrah and Amta gained momentum. The project was completed in four phases. In the first phase, the line between Santragachi and Domjur was completed in 1984.
The train can run up to between two periods. The rakes have a maximum permitted speed of on broad gauge tracks. The motorcoaches use DC traction motors. In 2017, ICF flagged off an LHB hybrid AC-AC MEMU rake based on the 1600 HP Medha DEMU architecture.
Trains passing through this station include MLFC - SGUJ DEMU and SGUJ- MLFC DEMU. This station has a single platform and two tracks. one broad gauge line and one metre gauge line. ;Rangapani railway station: Rangapani railway station (station code RNI)comes under greater Siliguri metropolitan area.
The Cornwall Railway was under construction at this time, but it did not open until 1859, then forming a link throughout southern Cornwall passing through Par; however that lien was on the broad gauge and no direct connection with the tramway lines was possible at first.
J. T. Bagot was one of the advocates. The main reasons for choosing this were reduced cost, and the expectation that the narrow gauge would never connect to broad gauge lines. Overbuilt English railways were criticised. The Wakefield line was also envisaged as a horse-drawn tramway.
With the opening of the branch from Vilnius (German: Wilna)–Kaunas–Virbalis (German: Wirballen, Russian: Вержболово and Polish: Wierzbałowo) on the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway to this border crossing near Kybartai, the first junction between the European standard gauge and the Russian broad gauge networks was established.
Mirpur Khas Railway Station. Mirpur Khas Railway Station is in middle of city. After 40 years a railway link between Pakistan and India is being opened again. A broad gauge line has been laid from Mirpurkhas to Khokhrapar, which is the border town from Pakistani Side.
Kharwa Chanda railway station is a small railway station in Udaipur district, Rajasthan. Its code is KRCD. It serves the villages of Kharwa and Keora Khurd. Kharwa Chanda railway station is part of the Ahmedabad–Udaipur line, which is undergoing gauge conversion, from metre to broad gauge.
Some harbours also used railways of this gauge for construction and maintenance. These included Portland Harbour and Holyhead Breakwater, which used a locomotive for working sidings. As it was not connected to the national network, this broad-gauge operation continued until the locomotive wore out in 1913.
It is by State Highway 947 from Jamnagar, where there is a domestic airport. The Dwarka railway station is on the broad gauge railway line that runs from Ahmedabad to Okha at a distance of about from Jamnagar. Dwarka is away from Rajkot and from Ahmedabad.
It is located on Udhna – Jalgaon main line of the Indian Railways. It is located at 35 m above sea level and has one platform. As of 2016, electrified double broad-gauge railway line exists at this station. Passenger, MEMU, and one Superfast trains halt here.
The railway was later extended to Bijalpura. The Raxaul-Amlekhganj railway track was operational until 1965. It was closed down after opening of the Tribhuvan Highway. The railway track from Raxaul was converted to broad gauge by Indian Railways to connect Sirsiya (Birganj) Inland Container Depot (ICD).
Yadagiri is connected by road and rail. Yadgir Railway Station ;Railway Yadagiri has a broad gauge railway station, Yadgir railway station, and lies between Mumbai and Chennai. It comes under the South Central Railway under the Guntakal division. The city is connected to Gulbarga, 78 kms.
Gawler Central station, one of two terminus stations in the town of Gawler Elizabeth Interchange before its upgrade in 2011/12 Salisbury Interchange in 2006, one of the 3 busiest stations on the entire network Mawson Interchange station, opened in early 2006 Rail Bridge over the Little Para River in Salisbury, built prior to 1889 and still in useRailway bridge over the Little Para River - Photograph State Library of South Australia Retrieved 16 December 2019 The line was opened in 1857 from Adelaide to Gawler,Bassett Town & the Railway Town of Gawler and extended to Kapunda in 1860. Branches were later built from Gawler to termini in Angaston, Truro, Morgan, Robertstown, Peterborough, Spalding and Gladstone. Between Adelaide and Salisbury, the two broad gauge lines are paralleled by one standard gauge line on the Adelaide to Port Augusta line. A little north of Salisbury the standard gauge line heads north-west, and from Salisbury to Gawler there are two broad gauge tracks, with a single broad gauge track north of Gawler.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia- Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia- Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
In 1876, Blyth was the terminus of the narrow gauge railway to Port Wakefield. This line ultimately was extended to Gladstone and converted to the broad gauge of in 1927 as the Gladstone railway line. Adjacent stations were Brinkworth to the north and Hoyleton and Halbury to the south.
Brinkworth was a junction on the Gladstone railway line from Adelaide to Gladstone in the north. The other line from Brinkworth went through Snowtown to Kadina and Wallaroo. Both were originally built as narrow gauge . These lines were converted to broad gauge in 1927 but are now closed.
It is a single broad gauge line located between Peddapalli-Nizamabad Railway section connected to the Grand Trunk Route (North&South; main line, New Delhi-Chennai line) at Peddapalli (35 kilometres). Its neighbourhood station is Kottapalli railway station. There is a proposal of Kothapalli-Manoharabad new railway line.
A new broad gauge line for a distance of 23 kilometre connecting Thrissur to Guruvayur was opened in 1994. This line will be further extended to Tanur (via) Kuttipuram to connect the West Coast line and will serve as a parallel line to the existing Shoranur–Thrissur line.
It also connected East Pakistan, even after partition. However, collapse of the rail-cum-road bridge over the Gadadhar in the seventies ended that link. The bridge has been rebuilt and the track laid again as broad gauge, entirely through Indian territory. The line became operable in 2012.
New Rail Line From Pakur-Godda and Bashukinath Dham - Chatra is proposed. Work for doubling the stretch started in 2010 (Announced in 1996). Work on the new long Rampurhat-Dumka-Mander Hill broad gauge line completed and Kavi Guru Express BhagalpurJn to howrah is running on this route.
At Gatehampton, Brunel opted to build a masonry bridge. This structure largely conformed with the typical architectural idioms of the era while featuring aesthetically pleasing detailing. His decision to adopt track broad gauge for the line necessitated the bridge's width of 30 feet to accommodate a pair of lines.
Akola Junction (station code:- AK) serves Akola in Akola district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is an important junction station on the Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line. There is a broad gauge line to Secunderabad railway station and the metre gauge Akola-Khandwa line is under gauge conversion.
Nearest national road Nr. 74 (Zamosc - Stalowa Wola) goes north of the town. Biłgoraj has a rail station on a secondary - importance line from Zamość to Stalowa Wola, through the town also goes the Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line. Nearest airport, Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport, is located to the south.
In 1861, Toronto Street Railway horsecars replaced horse-drawn omnibuses as a public transit mode in Toronto. Electric streetcars would later replace the horsecars between 1892 and 1894. The Toronto Street Railway created Toronto's unique broad gauge of . The streets were unpaved, and a step rail was employed.
The line was finally closed for gauge conversion on 9 June 2004. After a long wait, the work was completed and the first train from Gunupur, on Broad Gauge line started on 21 August 2011. Services were restarted on 21 August 2011 with the introduction of Puri-Gunupur Passenger.
On 16 March 2003 a Sydney to Melbourne standard gauge freight train derailed at Chiltern, fouling the adjacent broad gauge line. Due to poor communication between train control centres, a V/Line service was not warned in enough time and struck the wreckage, although with no serious injuries.
It is located at 14 m above sea level and has three platforms. As of 2016, the railway line is electrified double broad-gauge railway line. At this station, 90 Passenger, MEMU, Express, and Superfast trains halt here each day. Surat Airport, is at distance of 28 kilometers.
The length of the line is , with the length of the track being . Using Broad Gauge track, the rolling stock on the line includes the diesel locomotives; WDM-2, WDM-3A, WDP 4, WDG 4 And Electric Locomotive;.WAP-7, WAP-4.Main line is currentlyMarch 2019 electrified.
The Central Northern Railway (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Central Norte, FCCN) was the first (metre gauge) railway built by the Argentine State Railway. Its aim was to extend the existing British-owned Central Argentine (broad gauge) railway from Córdoba to Tucuman and metre gauge was chosen for economic reasons.
The Mitre line is an Argentine broad gauge commuter rail service in Buenos Aires Province as part of Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre. The service is currently operated by State-owned company Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado after the Government of Argentina rescinded contract with Corredores Ferroviarios in March 2015.
Chandigarh-Mumbai Bandra Express, Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Mumbai Bandra Express and Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Udaipur City Chetak Express are important trains on the broad gauge route stopping at Ringas railway station. Jaipur-Ringas-Sikar-Loharu Express and Jaipur-Ringas-Churu Express are important trains on the metre gauge track.
The festivities were spaced out to 10 days to allow pilgrims to take sacred bath from day one. Around 3000 railway police personnel were employed for the 17 Feb function. Southern railways operated additional trains via Kumbakonam in the new broad gauge converted railway lines from Villupuram to Kumbakonam.
The company's capital was to be £500,000 with borrowing powers of £165,000, and a head office in London. The line was to be broad gauge, "subject to the liability to lay additional rails of the gauge of any railway which might thereafter be constructed through Cornwall to Truro".
Platform 4 is the main platform leading to the portico. Platforms 4, 5, 6 and 7 lie under the dome. These are used for long-distance trains. Platforms 10 and 11 are newly constructed ones that are handling broad-gauge electric multiple units (EMUs or suburban electric trains).
The long wide broad gauge Amritsar-Pathankot line was opened in 1884. The long wide narrow gauge Kangra Valley Railway from Pathankot to Joginder Nagar was commissioned in 1929. The line from Jalandhar City to Mukerian was constructed in 1915. The Mukerian-Pathankot line was built in 1952.
There are also two other broad gauge train lines from Gaya, one to Patna and the other to Kiul Junction. The city has major two railway station Gaya Junction & Manpur Junction. Gaya is well connected with Patna, Jehanabad, Biharsharif, Rajgir, Islampur, Nawada through daily passenger and express train services.
The Howrah–Amta line runs west, chiefly along the side of the Jagatballabhpur road, and then goes south-west to Amta. While the Howrah–Amta section was reopened as broad gauge in 2000, there has been no sign of reopening any part of the Howrah-Sheakhala light railway.
A survey of 122 km Rupai-Parshuram Kund broad gauge railway line was complete at the initiative of Arunachal Chamber of Commerce and Industries, while a preliminary engineering-traffic survey for the Pasighat-Tezu-Parsuram Kund was conducted by northeast frontier railways at the request of the state government.
The class WDM-7 is a diesel-electric locomotive of Indian Railways. It has been manufactured by Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), diesel (D), mixed traffic (M) engine. The WDM-7 are found exclusively at Chennai Central and nearby area.
The Nagpur Broad Gauge Metro is a commuter rail project planned Nagpur and extending up to adjacent districts of Wardha and Bhandara. The project is estimated to cost INR 418 Cr and consists of four routes, each originating from Nagpur and terminating at Narkhed, Ramtek, Wardha and Bhandara.
Two express trains come from Agra: Agra-Gonda Express and Agra-Lucknow Express. From Delhi one has to reach first nearby district Bareilly by bus or train before reaching Pilibhit by a bus or meter gauge train. Pilibhit is connected by broad gauge to Bareilly - Delhi rail line.
In 1878, while construction work by the Kowie Harbour Improvement Company was underway at Port Alfred, the Cape Government Railways acquired one broad gauge (Saddle Tank) locomotive named Aid from Fox, Walker and Company of Bristol for use as construction locomotive on the east bank of the Kowie river.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia- Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia- Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
Howrah to Amta Narrow gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah–Amta new Broad Gauge line, including the Bargachia-Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002–2004.
The Kolkata- Siliguri main line was converted to broad gauge in stages. The Shakole- Santahar section was converted in 1910–1914, when Hardinge Bridge was under construction. The Hardinge Bridge was opened in 1915. The Sara-Sirajganj line was constructed by the Sara-Sirajganj Railway Company in 1915–1916.
The Lithuanian Railways ordered 13 broad gauge units of class EJ 575. The first train was delivered in 2008 and the last unit was delivered in 2017. They are operated on the route Vilnius - Kaunas since December 2008 and Vilnius - Minsk (Belarus). Units consist of two and three cars.
Attur Taluk is surrounded by Gangavalli Taluk on east and Pethanaickenpalayam Taluk on the west. Recently, the railway station was rebuilt and the tracks expanded to accommodate a broad gauge. Train services run from Viruthachalam to Salem, and from Attur to Chennai. Transportation Attur is on NH 79.
Chapter II - The Cape Government Railways (Continued). South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, October 1943. pp. 731-734. All the broad gauge 0-4-2 locomotives were dismantled, with the exception of their boilers. These were thoroughly overhauled, converted into stationary boilers and used to drive workshop machinery.
The first broad gauge locomotive of the Shed was commissioned on 12 April 1997. Since then the holding rapidly increased to a full capacity of 60 Locomotives by March 1998. The 60th locomotive was flagged off 9th March 1998. WDG-3A locomotives were first commissioned & homed in 1998‐99.
The platforms are not well sheltered. It lacks many facilities including water and sanitation. The railway station of Meghnagar is located on Broad Gauge line. It is connected to Bhopal, Ujjain, Gwalior, Jaipur, Jabalpur, Katni, Ratlam and Bina within the state and almost every other state of India.
During 19th century Ahmedabad–Viramgam section was owned by BB&CI.; During which Ahmedabad–Viramgam section was laid in 1871 by BB&CI.; Later BB&CI; line was extended to Surendranagar in 1872. After then Broad gauge network to Surendranagar was extended by BB&CI; Railway in 1879.
The Cinderford line followed a sharp curve, past the site of Cinderford Junction (5 m 27 ch), to Cinderford station, formerly S&WR; property. The Whimsey branch passed under the S&WR; line, by the site of the Dam Pool, a relic of Cinderford ironworks; adjacent, on the up side, was a broad-gauge siding, probably called Spero. On the down side again Broadmoor brickworks and Duck colliery (5 m 40 ch) were served by sidings until post-war years, and beyond was Whimsey Halt, opposite which, on the up side, was a short-lived broad gauge branch to Regulator Colliery. Whimsey goods station (5 m 60 ch), renamed Cinderford Goods in 1884, was on the up side.
Local workers were paid 50c per hour, but many men from England deserted as the promise of 70c per hour did not materialise. Construction proceeded until the link was made with the broad gauge Launceston and Western Railway at Evandale in March 1876. Accident on T.M.L. Railway at Coal Mine Bend between Colebrook and Rhyndaston on 24 April 1877 Connecting broad gauge trains operated into Launceston until the third rail was completed on 1 November 1876, enabling the Main Line Company's trains to run through. This arrangement was not without its difficulties as the Government, who now owned the Launceston and Western railway line, wanted to charge tolls and other rates for the use of its facilities.
In 1845 a Royal Commission was appointed and of the forty-six witnesses that gave evidence, only Brunel and his colleagues at the Great Western supported the broad gauge. Comparisons between a Stephenson locomotive between York and Darlington and one built by Brunel between Paddington and Didcot showed the broad gauge locomotive to be superior, but the commissioners found in favour of a gauge, due in part to the greater number of route miles that had already been laid. Brunel also supported propelling trains using the atmospheric system. Robert sent assistants to the Dalkey Atmospheric Railway in Ireland to observe, but advised against its use as the failure of one pump would bring traffic to a stop.
The Nilambur–Nanjangud railway line also called The Golden I T Corridor or Wayanad Railway is a proposed project to establish faster interconnectivity between the two states of Kerala and Karnataka through the construction of a direct short distance broad gauge line between Nilambur in the Malappuram district of Kerala and Nanjangud in Chamaraja Nagar district of Karnataka. The first proposal for such a line dates back to 1881. By the successful establishment of this broad gauge line, the existing distance between Ernakulam - Mysore rail route will be reduced to 361 Km from 776 Km & Ernakulam - Banglore will be reduced to 500 Km from 637 Km. Estimated budget for this project is .
Bishkek rail overpass Rail gauge in former Soviet territory differs from the gauge in the rest of the world. Rail tracks in the former Soviet territories are on a broad-gauge track of 1,524 millimeters (60 inches) versus the global standard gauge of 1,435 millimeters used in China, most of Europe, North America, most of Australia, Iran and Turkey. The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union intentionally used a different gauge (ostensibly to block invaders from entering Russia by rail). Consequently, trains on the current rail line from China to Kazakhstan must stop at the border, where cargo is unloaded and then reloaded onto trains on the broad-gauge rail line in Kazakhstan for transit through Central Asia.
The North Devon Railway was a railway company which operated a line from Cowley Bridge Junction, near Exeter, to Bideford in Devon, England, later becoming part of the London and South Western Railway's system. Originally planned as a broad gauge (7 ft 0¼ in, 2,140 mm) feeder to the Bristol & Exeter Railway, it became part of a battle between the broad gauge group and the standard gauge railway interests. In this context, standard gauge lines were often described as narrow gauge. The original construction in the middle of the nineteenth century was significant in giving rail connection to the important, but remote towns of North Devon that had hitherto relied on the packhorse and coastal shipping.
At the time, Beechworth was far removed from the centre of colonial administration in Melbourne both in distance and time taken to travel. The local debates around the potential railway into Beechworth encompassed a broad gauge () option or a narrow gauge () system, between Wangaratta and Beechworth and these debates and options appeared in the Ovens and Murray Advertiser newspaper. Ironically, in the 1890s a narrow gauge system did eventuate nearby, running from Wangaratta to Whitfield. Finally a broad gauge railway arrived at Beechworth in September 1876,"The Ovens Valley Goldfields Railways", Eardley, Gifford, Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, December, 1968 pp. 281–294; January, 1969 1–18 but by that stage the town and its gold production was waning.
Upper Ferntree Gully station opened on 4 December 1889. After December 1900 it became the break-of-gauge station between the broad gauge used through most of Victoria, and the narrow gauge Gembrook line (now the Puffing Billy Railway), one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways. The narrow gauge line was closed in 1954, but the line as far as Belgrave was later rebuilt as a broad gauge electrified railway, which opened on 18 February 1962. On 4 August 1975 the name of the station was altered slightly to Upper Fern Tree Gully,VR History by Andrew Waugh although in more recent times most references have reverted to the original name.
The old station building The station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 June 1877 on their new branch line from to . No goods sidings were ever provided at the station, but a line was laid from the station out to sidings on Lelant Wharf where traffic could be transferred between railway wagons and boats. The St Ives branch was laid using broad gauge, but in October 1888 a third rail was added to the line from St Erth to allow standard gauge goods trains to reach the wharf. The last broad gauge train ran on Friday 20 May 1892; since the following Monday all trains have been standard gauge.
The Whitland and Cardigan Railway Although coastal shipping was possible, the road system serving Cardigan at the beginning of the nineteenth century was primitive and unsatisfactory. The South Wales Railway opened its broad gauge main line to Carmarthen in 1852, with the expressed intention of continuing to Fishguard; this was intended to connect to railways in the south of Ireland, but economic events resulted in a change of western terminal to Neyland, on Milford Haven. Neyland was then known as New Milford. The Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway was formed to build a broad gauge branch line from Carmarthen to Cardigan, and it was authorised by Act of 1 July 1854, with share capital of £300,000.
Railway Station Jabalpur Junction railway station, headquarters of the West Central Railway, has direct service to Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Nagpur, Surat, Pune, Patna, Ludhiana, Jammu, Vasco-Da Gama, Amravati, Coimbatore, Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Agra, Mathura, Jaipur, Varanasi, Kanpur, Vadodara, Bhubhaneshwar, Lucknow, Puri, Allahabad, Nashik, Rajkot, Guwahati, Ambikapur, Bilaspur, Tatanagar, Raipur, Haridwar, Rameshwaram, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, and Trivandrum. The line from Gondia to Balaghat and Jabalpur to Nainpur has been converted to broad gauge with daily passenger services. Jabalpur was the terminus of Indian Railways train number 1: the Satpura Express, re-numbered Train No. 10001 in the five-digit numbering system. This train stopped service due to the upgrade to broad gauge.
The Hyderabad–Khokhrapar Branch Line was originally built as part of the Hyderabad–Jodhpur Railway in 1892. The first section from Hyderabad to Shadipalli opened in 1892 and was originally constructed as a broad gauge railway line (this first section was also known as the Hyderabad–Umarkot Railway). In 1901, the first section was converted to metre gauge where it joined the second section between Shadipalli and Luni and on wards to Jodhpur. " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 188; Retrieved 6 Feb 2016 In February 2006, the entire Hyderabad–Khokhrapar line was re-converted again back to the original to 1676 mm broad gauge line.
Comparison of gauges in India with the standard gauge As of 31 March 2019, IR network spans of track length, while the route length is . Track sections are rated for speeds ranging from , though the maximum speed attained by passenger trains is 180 km/h (110 mph) during trial runs. Almost the entire broad-gauge network is equipped with long-welded, high-tensile strength 52 kg/60 kg 90 UTS rails and pre-stressed concrete (PSC) sleepers with elastic fastenings. broad gauge is the predominant gauge used by IR and spans of route (93.29% of total route network), It is the broadest gauge in use across the world for regular passenger movement.
In December 1996, they began to operate on services to Sydney and Newcastle."BLs into NSW" Railway Digest January 1997 page 36 In September 1998, after being repainted into SteelLink livery by Rail Services Australia, Chullora, four were transferred back to the broad gauge to haul steel trains for BHP from Long Island to Dynon."Long Island Steel Trains" Railway Digest April 1998 page 34BL Class Railpage For a period in the late 1990s, they were rostered to haul The Overland between Melbourne and Adelaide."SA Standard Gauge" Railway Digest May 1999 page 37 As of September 2020, three were in service on the broad gauge, five on the standard gauge and two were in store.
Spain uses standard gauge track for its high speed railways in order to provide cross-border services with France and the rest of Western Europe, but runs high speed trains on its legacy broad gauge network at 200 km/h and are developing trains to travel at speeds in excess of 250 km.h, Russia uses a modified Siemens Velaro High Speed Train on its flagship St Petersburg to Moscow service at 250 km/h and can run at 350 km/h on dedicated track. The country is planning to build its portion of the Beijing to Moscow high speed railway in broad gauge. Finland uses a modified Alstom pendolino on the Allegro service to Helsinki at 220 km/h.
The 1860s and 70s were a time of expansion for the Great Western Railway. After the Gauge Commission had decided in 1846 against the expansion of the broad gauge, most new routes were laid to standard gauge only. Armstrong's job included maintaining the large stock of broad gauge locomotives, many of which had to be renewed or replaced, and also (from 1868) designing a large number of new standard gauge locomotives for service on the rapidly increasing amount of standard and mixed gauge track. In a wider sense he was in charge of all the company's rolling stock, as well as the work and well-being of some 13,000 employees all over the GWR network.
At the time these discussions were proceeding, the Taff Vale Railway were encouraging the promotion of what became the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway, a line to Llantrisant from near Treforest, connecting up numerous small mines on between, and forming an intrusion into territory that the broad gauge companies considered their own. The L&TVJR; was authorised on 7 June 1861, and opened part of its line at the northern end on 17 September 1863. However the southern end of the L&TVJR; was a junction with the broad gauge Ely Valley Railway at Maesaraul. The Cowbridge Railway was designed to give the town a connection to the merging railway network, but was short of funding.
The promoters had observed the disadvantages of small railways adopting the broad gauge, and they determined that their line would be on the narrow (standard) gauge. However their isolated position among broad gauge lines challenged the ability of their line to get the mineral products away to Cardiff or anywhere else. The Great Western Railway and the South Wales Railway had now merged, and the promoters of the OVR met with the GWR to ascertain whether they would lay mixed gauge on the main line to accommodate the OVR trains, but this was refused. The OVR proprietors were unabashed, and decided to continue with the construction of their line on the narrow gauge.
Comparison of gauges in India with the standard gauge As of 31 March 2019, IR network spans 1,23,542 km (76,765 mi) of track length, while the route length is . Track sections are rated for speeds ranging from , though the maximum speed attained by passenger trains is 180 km/h (110 mph) during trial runs. Almost all the broad-gauge network is equipped with long-welded, high-tensile strength 52kg/60kg 90 UTS rails and pre-stressed concrete (PSC) sleepers with elastic fastenings. broad gauge is the predominant gauge used by IR and spans of route (93.29% of total route network), It is the broadest gauge in use across the world for regular passenger movement.
Ballyclare had a narrow gauge rail link to Larne and a broad gauge connection to Belfast. Neither of these have been in use since the 1950s. Ballyclare railway station on the narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway opened on 24 August 1878, closed to passenger traffic on 1 October 1930, closed to goods traffic on 3 June 1940 and finally closed altogether on 3 July 1950. The station on the broad gauge Northern Counties Committee railway line opened on 3 November 1884, closed for passenger traffic on 1 January 1938, closed for goods traffic on 2 May 1938 and finally closed altogether on the same date as its narrow gauge counterpart in 1950.
A branch line serving Bradford on Avon was initially planned as part of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR;), a broad gauge railway, supported by the Great Western Railway (GWR), also a broad gauge railway, in preference to the plans of the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), a standard gauge railway, which wanted to expand its territory westwards. The proposed line was to run between Weymouth and Bristol. The WS&WR; was authorised by Act of Parliament in June 1845, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, already the engineer of the GWR, was appointed engineer of the new railway. The development of the WS&WR; was part of the Gauge Wars.
The Swansea Vale Railway which had long been established as a waggonway, crossed the SWR main line by a flat crossing near Llansamlet. Steps were taken to abolish the dangerous crossing, forming a proper junction instead, and broad gauge rails were laid on the Swansea Vale between the point of junction and the SVR sidings at North Dock, Swansea. This work was completed in February 1857; there had been a serious collision in the previous October at the old crossing. The Llanelly Railway routes were crossed on the level by the South Wales Railway; apparatus was installed at Llanelly for the transfer of minerals from narrow gauge Llanelly wagons to broad gauge SWR wagons.
The SteamRanger Heritage Railway is a historic train society in South Australia running trains on the Victor Harbor railway line. It is the only group regularly operating broad gauge steam locomotives in South Australia. It is run by volunteers of the South Australian Division of the Australian Railway Historical Society.
There are 80 chains to the mile. When it opened it was the first station out of Bristol, taking the claim from , and remained so until opened in 1871. The station was renamed Flax Bourton on 1 September 1888. The line, engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was built as broad gauge.
Aryankavu is a village in Punalur, Kollam district, Kerala. It lies at the border between Kerala and Tamilnadu on National Highway 744 near Thenmala. The village lies along a mountain pass in Western Ghats called Aryankavu Pass or Schencottah Gap. The Punalur-Shenkottai broad gauge railway line also passes through Aryankavu.
Indian Railways created a new broad-gauge rail link from Calcutta. The -long Farakka Barrage carries a rail-cum-road bridge across the Ganges. The rail bridge was opened in 1971 thereby linking the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop to Mala Town, New Jalpaiguri and other railway stations in North Bengal.
Rura Railway Station Bhaupur Railway StationThe district is well connected by railways. Three rail tracks run through Kanpur Dehat district. The railway route connecting Delhi to Hawrah belonging to North Central zone of Indian Railways is passing through centre of the district. This railway track is broad gauge and fully electrified.
The Howrah–Bardhaman main line is a broad-gauge railway line connecting Howrah and Bardhaman via Bandel. The railway line operates in Howrah, Hooghly and Purba Bardhaman districts in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is part of the Howrah–Delhi main line and the Kolkata Suburban Railway system.
The Howrah–Bardhaman chord is a broad-gauge rail line connecting Howrah and Bardhaman. The railway line operates in Howrah, Hooghly and Purba Bardhaman districts in the state of West Bengal. It is part of the Howrah-Gaya-Delhi line, Howrah-Allahabad-Mumbai line and the Kolkata Suburban Railway system.
Faridabad is on the broad gauge of the New Delhi – Mumbai Line. New Delhi and Hazrat Nizammudin Railway Station is about 25 km away from Old Faridabad railway station. The trains for big cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai are easily accessible from here. Local trains runs between New Delhi to Faridabad.
Some of the New Zealand units were later uprated in power output, and four of the Brazilian units were later regauged to broad gauge. Another more powerful version, license-built by Krupp, and referred to as a GE U30C model, was delivered to the TAZARA Railway, which links Tanzania with Zambia.
Latitude 25.2000°, Longitude 72.5833°, Altitude 501 feet Lat. (DMS) 25° 12' N, Long. (DMS) 72° 35' E, Altitude 152 meters The town's railway station is Marwar Bagra and is on the Samdari-Bhildi section of North Western Railway. The Railway Board converted this meter gauge route to broad gauge in 2010.
The Palayoor church is well connected by a road, rail and air services network. Palayoor is at a distance of from Thrissur on the State Highway. It is on the Thrissur-Chavakad route, via Pavaratty. By train, it is on the Thrissur-Guruvayur broad gauge line, at a distance of .
It handles dry bulk, break bulk, project cargo, liquid, containers, and automobiles and can berth Panamax vessels, liquid tankers and container vessels. It serves as an international trade gateway to Europe, Africa, America and the Middle East. It is situated on the main broad gauge rail route between Delhi and Mumbai.
A pontoon bridge was built across the Hooghly River in 1874 to provide easy access to Howrah Station. EIR constructed the Delhi Junction building in 1903. It then had 12 broad gauge and 3 metre gauge platforms. Howrah terminus was rebuilt as the largest railway station in India in 1905.
This line is also under conversion to broad gauge. The long, Butibori-Umrer branch line linking Umrer Coalfield to the main line was established in 1965. The newly laid Narkhed-Amravati branch line was opened in 2012. There was a long wide metre gauge line from Jaipur to Secunderabad via Akola.
As the conversion of tracks from meter gauge to broad gauge is going on since three years. There is a computer reservation system at the Pollachi Railway station which is becoming very active. For Tatkal reservation which normally starts at 8:00 a.m. Coimbatore Railway station is about 57 km away.
Carriage Repair Workshop based at Lower Parel in the city of Mumbai, India is a premier Broad gauge coaching workshop of Western Railway, India. The workshop undertakes the periodic overhauling of passenger main line coaches. It also manufactures wheel sets for the workshop as well as various Locomotives in Mumbai.
Historically, Nadikudi was a metre gauge station. Trains which travelled from Guntur to Macherla used to pass through Nadikudi. Later, Guntur-Macherla section, Tenali-Macherla section was converted from Meter Gauge to Broad Gauge and a new line was laid from Bibinagar near Hyderabad to Nadikudi, thus making Nadikudi a junction.
Kurduwadi Workshop was set up for repair of narrow gauge steam locomotives, coaches and wagons by Barsi Light Railway in 1930. With the reduction in narrow gauge rolling stock, the Workshop has taken up new activities as per requirements. Kurduwadi Workshop now undertakes rehabilitation of 20 broad gauge wagons per month.
The Indian locomotive class WM was a class of 2-6-4T tank locomotives used on broad gauge lines in India from 1942.Hughes 1976, p. 21.Marshall 2009, pp. 88. A total of 70 of them were delivered new, and another four were converted from existing class WV engines.
The Indian locomotive class WL of 1955 was a class of light axle load 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotives used on broad gauge lines in India between 1955 and 1995.Marshall 2009, pp. 90-93. A total of 109 of them were built in two batches.Marshall 2009, p. 93.
EMU and passenger trains to Tirupati, Chennai and Arakonnam depart from here. The 150-km broad gauge line was extended to Villupuram in January 2010. It connects Vellore and South Tamil Nadu; however, it is serviced by slow passenger trains. The line was opened for goods trains in June 2010.
Dhamtari situated at Raipur to Jagdalpur national highway National Highway 30 (India), where majorly flawless fast Bus services is available almost 24 hours in every 5–15 minutes. Raipur to Dhamtari narrow-gauge line,now defunct provided service to the area, soon to be replaced by broad-gauge railway tracks.
The Indian locomotive class WW was a class of 0-6-2T tank locomotives used on broad gauge lines in India.Hughes 1976, p. 21.Marshall 2009, pp. 147–148. The four members of the class were built by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England, and completed in 1942.
On February 27, 1896 the property was sold under foreclosure to representatives of the Erie, and subsequently reorganized as the Nypano. The company was merged into the Erie in 1941. The NYP&O; was originally built as a broad gauge line. On June 22, 1880 the line was converted to .
Shakurbasti has a diesel loco shed. It houses WDS-4A, WDS-4B, WDS-4D, WDM-2 WDM3A, WDS6 and DEMUs. It also has a broad gauge trip shed for WDM-2 and WDG-3A locos. WDS-4 shunting locos based all over Northern Railway are sent here for periodical maintenance.
The Torbay and Brixham Railway was a broad gauge railway in England which linked the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway at Churston railway station, Devon with the important fishing port of Brixham. It was a little over two miles long. Never more than a local branch line, it closed in 1963.
The station falling on Manamadurai–Virudhunagar line serving the Aruppukottai town. This station was opened by the then Honorable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, K. Kamaraj on 1963. After Broad gauge conversion It was opened by Honorable Minister K. C. Venugopal on 2013. It connects southern districts to delta districts.
The Indian locomotive class XP was a class of experimental "Pacific" type steam locomotives used on broad gauge lines in India. The two members of the class were built by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England, to an order placed by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) in 1935.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Victorian Railways and South Australian Railways broad gauge networks were extended. The South Australian main line, the Adelaide-Wolseley line, was connected to the Victorian system at Serviceton in 1887. This was the first single gauge inter-colonial link in Australia.

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