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Re: Out of Gauge Suburban EMU's in Sydney (Was DOO In Sydney)
- Subject: Re: Out of Gauge Suburban EMU's in Sydney (Was DOO In Sydney)
- From: John Duncan McCallum <mccallum@melbpc.org.au>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:16:37 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail,misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
- Organization: Melbourne PC User Group
- References: <7slfj8$87f$1@news1.mpx.com.au> <7u22cv$j7d$1@lios.apana.org.au>
"C. Dewick" wrote:
> >When you say that the trains are right on the extremity of the loading
> >gauge, how much room is there between the side of the train and lineside
> >structures or trains on adjacent tracks?
> I'm not sure, but there are actually two standards which have to co-relate
> here - the loading gauge, which is the maximum volumetric space in which
> rollingstock is permitted to occupy, and the structure gauge, which is the
> same but keeps structures a pre-defined distance *back* from the maximum
> limits of the complementary loading guage profile.
It is the difference between these two dimensions that I was asking
about.
If a mirror on a train goes outside the loading gauge by (say) 150mm,
what is the
distance from the mirror to the structure gauge, assuming staight track?
John McCallum