broad gauge in English

noun
1
a railroad gauge that is wider than the standard gauge of 56.5 inches (1.435 m).
This 5'3" gauge tram line was unique in that it shared the Irish broad gauge with the railways instead of the standard gauge of most other passenger tram systems in Victoria at the time.

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1. Agartala in Tripura has also been connected with broad gauge line.

2. * The speed of conversion of railway lines to broad gauge has doubled.

3. The 6 km (3.7 mi) 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.

4. In 1999 , the Northern Frontier Railway ( NFR ) decided to convert it to broad gauge .

5. We have been using the broad gauge rail whereas they use metre gauge in Myanmar.

6. * The Prime Ministers agreed that Rohanpur–Singabad broad gauge railway link would be available for transit to Nepal.

7. Projects are going on to connect the remaining State capitals including Imphal in North East to broad gauge network.

8. Baulk road was popularised by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for his 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge railways in

9. In 1992, Project Unigauge got under way, and to date almost 5,000 miles [about 7,800 km] of track has been converted from narrow and meter gauge to broad gauge.

10. There was 660 km of broad gauge track (mostly in the western region), 1,830 km of metre gauge track (mostly in the central and eastern regions) and 365 km of dual gauge track.