Talk:Standard-gauge railway

message: I propose to remove Standard gauge#Installations section completely. Are we really gonna list all lines? -DePiep (talk) 16:07, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree on that, it is very messy and lacks citations. Atlesn (talk) 16:43, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: US and Canada share the same single network. Anyway, each and every installation or network that is interesting should have a page, and be in the categorie for s.g. -DePiep (talk) 18:17, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

text: Both , what criteria do you suggest for inclusion/exclusion? And, why could a (well-done) category system not cover that? :Category:Standard gauge railways is there. -DePiep (talk) 20:13, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Categories don't allow comments that clarify what is going on in each country. That is the most valuable part of the present list. Countries that are exclusively or almost exclusively standard gauge don't need a detailed breakdown, but perhaps a mention of exceptions.--agr (talk) 17:01, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove installations section 

message: I read a comment that said it is "impossible to write imperial first" (now deleted btw; it related to Hong Kong). This is not correct.
With , it is possible to force any unit (metric or imperial) to be mentioned first. Use :
: → 
: →  
This works for every gauge.
With s.g., there are also the input options:
: →  -- default
: → 
: → 
: → 
As for wikilinks, if such a link is defined in the datalist, that is always linked to the unit-definition that is the input:
: → 
: → 
: → 
: →  -- (note: metre is not defined in imperial at all)
:Hope this helps. -DePiep (talk) 07:49, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Put imperial or metric first? 

message: Is this article written in en-UK or en-US? I see 'meter' and 'metre' in the text. -DePiep (talk) 15:23, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: In this text (article) let us stick with metre gauge. Peter Horn User talk 16:55, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite acceptable. -DePiep (talk) 17:25, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way "engvar=en-UK" is in this case quite superfluous as "allk=on" automatically gives the British spelling. Peter Horn User talk 18:19, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. DePiep (talk) 19:34, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Engvar is en-US or en-UK? 

message: Stephenson gauge in imperial units is 5'8"1/2, 1435 mm from rail interior to rail interior ( to be more precise, 14 mm under the rolling plane)
The first public railway in continental Europe was Saint Eienne Andrezieux (opened 1827), gauge 1500mm from rail axis to rail axis)
All the early railways in france had that gauge, roughly 1440 mm, in the tolerances for Stephenson gauge.
For Paris St Germain (1835) , the definition of gauge was 1440mm interior 1560 exterior and 1500 from axis to axis;
For the next lines (begining with Paris Versailles) the gauge was either 1440 or 1445, compatible with 1435 gauge.
Belgium had the same rules
First line in Germany was Nuremberg Furth, built by Von Denis, franco-german engineer, using french Standards. the next lines in germany used a quasi standard gauge compatible with French gauges  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.92.64.223 (talk) 19:35, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of standard gauge in the continent 

message: The world Gauge map shows Northern Ireland as being standard gauge (light blue), where as it should be Irish gauge (light green).
NI_Railways
Was edited by Newfraferz87
82.15.216.132 (talk) 20:24, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Presumably you mean :File:Rail gauge world.svg. The discussion page for that is . Anyway, that aside, the error was introduced earlier this year by . --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:07, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rail Gauge World Map 

message: There's a british history of the Gauge War that details the negotiations, politics, and meetings that led to the adoption of standard gauge and the nature of its origins as a compromise standard based on economic factors. It describes the process in detail and should constitute a primary source for rejecting the "roman chariot wheelbase" myth and other dubious accounts, as it covers the entire causal chain in detail
Regrettably, I read it in person in a library several years ago, and cannot remember the details; nor do I have experience in searching book collections. I leave this here in case any interested party who does have the skills to locate research on a topic is interested.
2A02:C7E:75B:6000:3839:BF78:EB35:AA27 (talk) 15:07, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Determination of standard gauge