Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm) track gauge was adopted by early 19th century railways mainly in the Lanarkshire area of Scotland, and is therefore also named Scotch gauge. From 1903, tram lines of Tokyo adopted this gauge. It differed from the gauge of 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) that was used on some early lines in England. Early railways chose their own gauge, but later in the century interchange of equipment was facilitated by establishing a uniform rail gauge across railways: a so-called 'standard gauge' of 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm). In the early 1840s standard gauge lines began to be constructed in Scotland, and all the Scotch Gauge lines were eventually converted to standard gauge. The gauge was outlawed in Great Britain by law in 1846."@en }
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- 4_ft_6_in_gauge_railway abstract "The 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm) track gauge was adopted by early 19th century railways mainly in the Lanarkshire area of Scotland, and is therefore also named Scotch gauge. From 1903, tram lines of Tokyo adopted this gauge. It differed from the gauge of 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) that was used on some early lines in England. Early railways chose their own gauge, but later in the century interchange of equipment was facilitated by establishing a uniform rail gauge across railways: a so-called 'standard gauge' of 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm). In the early 1840s standard gauge lines began to be constructed in Scotland, and all the Scotch Gauge lines were eventually converted to standard gauge. The gauge was outlawed in Great Britain by law in 1846.".