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Re: Rail gauge

Subject: Re: Rail gauge
From: "Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 08:52:15 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Rail News Victoria
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Xref: news1.unite.net.au aus.rail:38518

Victoria's Powelltown Tramway ran a public passenger service on 3 foot (914
mm) gauge.
The SEC (Victoria) electrified lines were 900 mm gauge.

Which mining lines used metre gauge?

-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Bill Bolton <billbolton@computer.org> wrote in article 
> "Ken Williams" <knwilliams@optushome.com.au> wrote:
I need to know the different rail gauges used around Australia.

> For commercial railways
...
> Metre	Mining (long since closed)
...
> Plus various odd gauges narrower than 4'8.5" used mostly for
> industrial, mining and timber getting prurposes.

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