Template:Antipodes gauge (table)
Antipodes[edit]
Newspaper articles in far off N S Wales reported, or misreported, even more gauges for the Festiniog Railway than the FR ever had, including:
| Gauge | Tags 1 | Tags 2 | Comment | Earliest Year |
Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1ft11in | 2 | 4 | Incorrect | 1873 | FF [1] |
| 1ft11¼in | 1 | 9 | Normal Unwidened Gauge |
1873 | DD |
| 1ft11½in | 9 | 42 | Widened Gauge on "Sharp" Curves Mistakenly assumed to be "Normal" gauge |
1870 | K |
| 1ft11¾in | 2 | 3 | Incorrect | 1869 | ZZ |
| 2ft 0in | 14 | 87 | Rounded Gauge | 1864 | PP [2] |
| 2ft 1in | 1 | 1 | Rounded Gauge with muddled widening on sharp curves. |
1870 | QQ [3] |
| 2ft 6in | 3 | 11 | Incorrect | 1867 | EE [4] Ample. [5] |
| 2ft 9in | 1 | 2 | Incorrect | 1871 | TT [6][7] |
| 3ft 0in | 1 | Proposed for Light Rail | TV | ||
| First Railway QLD | 1865 | SS | |||
| Pre-railway TAS | 1869 | TW [8] | |||
| 5ft 3in | First Railway TAS (BG) | TX ; so as to share designs with Victoria | |||
| 3ft 6in | Second Railway TAS (NG) | 1876 | UU ; probably influenced by Pihl and Queensland | ||
| 2ft 0in | Third Railway TAS (TG) | UX ; possibly influenced by Fairlie and FR ; mountainous terrain. | |||
| 3ft 6in | First Railway WA | 1879 | HH | ||
| 56 | Fairlie locomotive | 1869 | LL | ||
| 66 | 238 | Festiniog Railway | 1866 | PP | |
| 22 | Ffestinog (spelling) | 1853 | F1 | ||
| 920 | 1281 | Festiniog (spelling) | 1840 | F0 | |
| 10 | Festiniog Quarry (slate) | 1850 | FQ | ||
| 2ft 3in | 2 | Talyllyn Railway | 1951 | TT [9] |
- Note: Tags = Number of Tagged NLA Newspaper Articles ; this is a work in progress.
- Note: NLA=National Library of Australia.
- Note: (QNNA) "Sharp" curve means less than ______ chains radius.
- Note: The dates of the "First Railways in" are to help tell if the NG FR influenced the selection of Narrow Gauge (NG) in those colonies.
- Note: Number of tags means number counted "so far". Needs to be manually updated from time to time.
- Note: It is difficult to search for "1ft 11 1/2", etc. These strings need to be tagged/bookmarked whenever you come across them.
- ^ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13249470
- ^ "COUNTRY NEWS". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 29 February 1864. p. 7. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "THE FESTINIOG RAILWAY". The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933). Qld.: National Library of Australia. 12 January 1870. p. 4. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
- ^ "RAILWAY EXTENSION". South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 27 November 1867. p. 2. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ "THE FESTINIOG RAILWAY". The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude...(Hay, NSW : 1871 - 1873; 1880 - 1881; 1890 - 1900). Hay, NSW: National Library of Australia. 16 April 1873. p. 2. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ^ "MUNDOORAN". Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1907). Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 25 November 1871. p. 7. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ^ NLA
- ^ "RAILWAYS IN TASMANIA". Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899). Tas.: National Library of Australia. 7 December 1869. p. 1 Supplement: Supplement to the Launceston Examiner. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- ^ "The Little Old Railway". The Sunday Herald (Sydney, NSW : 1949 - 1953). Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 18 February 1951. p. 11 Supplement: Sunday Herald Features. Retrieved 28 October 2015.