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Re: Rail gauge

"Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote:

> Victoria's Powelltown Tramway ran a public passenger service on 3 foot (914
> mm) gauge.

That was covered under....

  "Plus various odd gauges narrower than 4'8.5" used mostly for
   industrial, mining and timber getting purposes.

> The SEC (Victoria) electrified lines were 900 mm gauge.

However, given its former size and importance, it was remiss of me to
omit the recently deceased SECV system.

> Which mining lines used metre gauge?

In the Blue Mountains, near Hartley.

Cheers,

Bill


Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia