Portal:Trains/Featured picture/Week 11, 2006

narrow gauge 0-4-2ST locomotive Blanche, formerly of the Penrhyn Quarry, operating on the Ffestiniog Railway

Narrow-gauge railways are railroads (railways) where the distance between the two parallel rails constituting the railway track (the track gauge) is less than the of standard gauge railroads. The rationale for the use of a narrower gauge is that a railway using such a gauge can be substantially cheaper to build, equip, and operate than one built to standard gauge. On the other hand, standard gauge railroads have a greater haulage capacity and allow greater speeds than those a narrow gauge system can attain.

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