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Also known as rail gauge, railway gauge, rail track gauge, railroad gauge

spacing of the rails on a railway track

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Track gauge is the distance between the two rails on a railway track. It matters because trains are built to run on specific gauge widths, so different gauges can prevent trains from different rail systems from operating on the same tracks.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “track gauge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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