metre gauge

See also: metre-gauge

English

Alternative forms

meter gage (US)

Noun

metre gauge (uncountable)

(rail transport) A track gauge of one metre.
- 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:
  Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.

Related terms

metre-gauge (adjective)
narrow gauge

Translations

track gauge

German: Meterspur f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: meterspor n

Nynorsk: meterspor n

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