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Some say that the difference is the distance between tracks,if that is the answer how can a train move from meter guage to broad guage in some areas
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The same train cannot move from Meter to Broad guage. Nowadays, all the tracks being built are of Broad guage. But earlier Meter guage tracks were built for specific purposes. But they are not inter-changeable. One has to board another train. But a junction (Big one ) may have facility of both guages at same place. That way, one can get connected to another train of different guage.meter guage is only 1 meter width but broad guage is more than meter gauge. Meter guage mean chhoti / patli rail gadi.
meter gauge is one meter distance between two tracks and broad gauge is more than one meter. But there is also difference in speed at which trains can travel. On meter gauge the train speed is less than broad gauge. So most of the tracks which are laid now a days in broad gauge. But cost of installing broad gauge is also higher and very high in case of mountain regions so there are still meter gauge tracks running in mountain regions
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Yes "Gauge" is the difference is the distance between tracks (the inner sides of the two parallel rails) and therefore the same train cannot move from meter gauge to broad gauge in any area.
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Rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up a railway track. Sixty percent of the world's railways use a gauge of 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm), which is known as the standard or international gauge. Gauges wider than standard gauge are called broad gauge, those smaller than standard narrow gauge. Some stretches of track are dual gauge, with three (or sometimes four) parallel rails in place of the usual two, to allow trains of two different gauges to share the same path. The term break-of-gauge refers to the situation at a place where different gauges meet.
Broad gauge railways use a rail gauge (distance between the rails) greater than the standard gauge of 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm).
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As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the inner sides of the rails) that should be used. The eventual result was the adoption throughout a large part of the world of a standard gauge of 1435 mm (4 ft 8½ in)
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Narrow gauge railways have a gauge narrower than the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8½ in) of standard gauge railways. Most existing narrow gauge railways have gauges of 3 ft 6 in (1067 mm) or less. Since they can accommodate smaller radius curves, narrow gauge railways can be substantially cheaper to build, equip, and operate than standard-gauge railways, particularly in mountainous terrain.
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in broad gauge the distance between two laid tracks is 1.4 mts (1435 mm). but in meter gauge the distance is exactly 1 mt. no train can travel on both the gauges. now a days Indian railways is converting meter gauge to broad gauge under their uni gauge programme.More Questions & Answers ...
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