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narrow gauge

noun

  1. gauge15


narrow gauge

noun

  1. a railway track with a smaller distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 56 1 2 in
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or denoting a railway with a narrow gauge
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • narrow-gauge especially in technical use, narrow-gage adjective
  • narrow-gauged especially in technical use, narrow-gaged adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of narrow gauge1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

For almost a century the narrow gauge railway hauled slate through Snowdonia before it became the world's first preserved railway in 1951.

From BBC

The car was used until narrow gauge freight service on Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad stopped in 1967.

“While his competitors were building rail lines east and west, Palmer proposed a narrow gauge from Denver along the Rocky Mountains southward to El Paso, Texas and eventually Mexico.”

You can remind him that people suffer across the world while he studies the history and politics of the narrow gauge.

It uses an old-fashioned French narrow gauge, and is so old that when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited Hanoi in February for a summit with U.S.

From Reuters

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