Discuss the factors affecting the adoption of a particular gauge?(railway engineering )
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The track gauge is the inner faces distance between the load bearing rails. In India we have presently four types of different gauges as broad gauge (1676mm), meter gauge (1000mm) and two narrow gauges of 762 and 610mm. The total track length used by Indian Railways is about 115,000 km, while the to
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