Talk:Narrow-gauge railway

I've started to substantially redo this page to make it a bit more readable. Split into sections, and I've laid out the per-country stuff by continent and then by nation in headers. A lot of work still to do. —Morven 20:05, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The very heavy narrow trains in South Africa and Queensland, Australia (10,000t or more) show that narrow gauge is capabable of almost as much as the broader gauge.

A lot of the arguements about narrow versus broad gauge are really false. What is important is the strength of track (rails, sleepers, roadbed) and loading gauge (tunnels, bridges and platforms).

Australia has suffered greatly from a lack of uniform gauge, and it has been a costly exercise to rectify even part of the problem. At least all the mainland capitals are connected by uniform gauge mainlines, albeit lines full of low speed curves and gradients - but that is another problem.

—Morven 20:05, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)