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From: jis1@mtgzz.UUCP (j.mukerji)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: CNW Left Handed Running
Message-ID: <1657@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 12:19:33 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  9 12:19:33 1986
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> British influence has been cited as the reason for left-handed operation
> of some railroads in Europe, if not also the US.  If this is true, then
> why does the European continent not also use the same gauge as the
> British?
> -- 
> Nels Anderson 			Princeton University, Astrophysics
> {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!nels

Huh???? European continent DOES use the same gauge as the British! That is
Standard Gauge 4' 8.5"! There are exceptions of course, like the Iberian
Peninsula where Broad Gauge 5' 6" is used. But then that could be British
influence too! Do not forget that the British laid an extensive railway
network in the Indian subcontinent using the Broad Gauge!

Of course, the Ruskys are different, they use a 5' 0.5" or something like
that.

Jishnu Mukerji
AT&T Information Systems Labs
Middletown NJ
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