Talk:Minimum-gauge railway

message: In Minimum gauge railway:  and in Minimum gauge railway#List of Minimum Gauge Railways  or  as opposed to  or . The template:RailGauge needs to be readjusted. Peter Horn User talk 02:45, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  conversions 

message: The 14inch gauge of Hesston Museum shwos an error. Its gauge is not included in the railgauge template. I can't add it as I have not permission. Can anyone of you add this gauge? Thank you.
--Peter Walt A. (talk) 17:41, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the required conversion? Keith D (talk) 18:07, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  14 inch (356 mm) - Do you mean this with the term conversion? --Peter Walt A. (talk) 12:50, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes that is exactly what I required - I have added the entry to the template so should be available now.Keith D (talk) 19:29, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hesston 14inch gauge not in template 

message: Why does this article, per recent changes (Tobias Conradi again?), now exclude 15 inch gauge rails, including the most significant of the lot, the Eaton Hall, but it includes 20 inch gauge railways that were outside Heywood's "Minimum" definition. Can someone please revert this neatly, I'm out of time to do it myself. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:56, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusions 

message: Recently, the  gauge template was added. This gauge was used for the construction railway of the  Chicago Tunnel Company#Construction and is below the definition of minimum gauge railways as provided by Sir Arthur Heywood. Definitely not a ridable miniature railway, but can it be added to the Minimum gauge railway article? And if not, anny suggestions where to place this gauge? (same question applies for the List of track gauges) --Aaron-Tripel (talk) 18:26, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: To make this matter more complicated: I just learned from further up on this talk page, Hesston Steam Museum has a  ridable miniature railway --Aaron-Tripel (talk) 18:30, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{RailGauge|14in}} construction railway 

message: As understand it Wikipedia is concerned with recording fact not speculation particularly not inventing definitions. Let us be quite clear - the term Minimum Gauge Railway was coined by Sir Arthur Heywood to emphasise his belief that 15inch was the minumum practical for a working railway and particularly to distinguish it from the 18 and 24 inch railways that were usual at that time. 2.31.0.79 (talk) 09:33, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: Note that the Fairbourne reasonably may or may not be counted as a minimum gauge or a miniature, depending on the date. For many years it was 15" (ie minimum) although it has now shrunk to 12¼", since the mid '80s. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:51, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Fairbourne Railway]] 

message: I discovered a circular categorisation and broke it . Minimum-gauge railway is in   with eponymous article Sir Arthur Heywood itself being a member of . However, without any explanation or resolving it was reverted
 by . I propose to break the circle, as no opposing argument has been brought forward. -DePiep (talk) 12:00, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circular categorisation 

message: The Pelion line has to be added among the others. 600 mm gauge, at mountain  Pelion, Thessaly, Greece, the narrowest public  transport railroad  of the world, build by the father  of the famous painter de Quirico,  now in use a part of the  initially built railroad. Anjius (talk) 15:45, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: 600mm is generally considered as narrow gauge. 450mm is about the limit for minimum gauge.   The reason is that narrow gauge 600mm existed before Heywood developed the idea of minimum gauge, which is defined as being the combination of both useful for 'estate' work, and also being smaller than narrow gauge. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:08, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pelion line 

message: There's a collection of 500 mm stuff near Nuremberg. I haven't seen it, and don't know if it qualifies as an "installation" for this article. Could be mentioned somehow though.
http://www.feldbahn500.de/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldbahn-Museum_500
--BjKa (talk) 10:40, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: OTOH after reading through (and doing some cleaning-up on) most of the past comments, I get the impression that this whole "minimum gauge" thing is something thoroughly British, hinging solely on the writings of Sir Arthur. I'll certainly want to stay out of this in the future, and stick to "narrow gauge", as it is used in all other cultures. --BjKa (talk) 10:40, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Feldbahn-Museum 500" 

message: See Template talk:Track gauge#20 in (508 mm) Peter Horn User talk 20:41, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{Track gauge|20in}} 

message: This belongs on this page.  It is a fully-registered public railway of minimum gauge, so, arguably, is a better example of the type than some of the "garden railways" presently included. Neith-Nabu (talk) 21:13, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  wells & Walsingham Light Railway