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- Gauge_War abstract "The Gauge War (or Gauge Wars) is a term referring to the intense competition to control new territory, between expanding railway companies in Great Britain in the nineteenth century.The Great Western Railway adopted the broad gauge of 7 ft (2,134 mm) at the outset, while competing railway companies neighbouring it adopted the gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) which became standard gauge. As the respective companies sought to expand commercially and geographically, they wished to dominate areas of the country, hoping to exclude their competitors. The networks polarised into groups of broad gauge companies and of narrow gauge companies: the term narrow gauge was customarily used to emphasise the distinction.Proposed railway lines required authorisation by Act of Parliament and the Act generally stipulated the track gauge to be adopted. When an independent line was promoted, therefore, the gauge specified implied allegiance to, and co-operation with, either the broad or narrow gauge companies respectively. Similarly if a broad gauge company and another network were each promoting a new railway to serve a particular area, it was usual for Parliament to authorise one and reject the other. The success by one network and the failure by the other often implied the capture and loss respectively of territory far beyond the line under immediate examination.The topic is more fully examined in the articles describing specific railways: from the Great Western Railway point of view: GWR: The gauge war from the London and South Western Railway: LSWR: Gauge wars".
- Gauge_War wikiPageID "21026223".
- Gauge_War wikiPageLength "2007".
- Gauge_War wikiPageOutDegree "6".
- Gauge_War wikiPageRevisionID "606735262".
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLink Broad_gauge.
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_rail_transport_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLink Great_Western_Railway.
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLink London_and_South_Western_Railway.
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLink Standard_gauge.
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLinkText ""gauge war"".
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLinkText "''gauge wars''".
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLinkText "''the gauge wars''".
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLinkText "Gauge War".
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLinkText "battle".
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLinkText "broad gauge".
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLinkText "disagreement about the gauge to be used".
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLinkText "gauge war".
- Gauge_War wikiPageWikiLinkText "gauge wars".
- Gauge_War hasPhotoCollection Gauge_War.
- Gauge_War wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:RailGauge.
- Gauge_War subject Category:History_of_rail_transport_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Gauge_War hypernym Term.
- Gauge_War comment "The Gauge War (or Gauge Wars) is a term referring to the intense competition to control new territory, between expanding railway companies in Great Britain in the nineteenth century.The Great Western Railway adopted the broad gauge of 7 ft (2,134 mm) at the outset, while competing railway companies neighbouring it adopted the gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) which became standard gauge.".
- Gauge_War label "Gauge War".
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- Gauge_War wasDerivedFrom Gauge_War?oldid=606735262.
- Gauge_War isPrimaryTopicOf Gauge_War.