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standard-gauge railway

rail track gauge – international standard gauge (1435 mm, 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Intangible track_gauge Q1999572
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Summary

standard-gauge railway is a track gauge[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of track gauge entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,819 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: George Stephenson[3]
  • Commons category: 1435 mm track gauge[4]
  • Significant event: Royal Commission on Railway Gauges[5], Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Standard-gauge railways[7]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: gauge=1435[8]
  • Used by: high-speed rail[9], Liverpool and Manchester Railway[10]
  • Different from: Standard Gauge[11]
  • Width: 1435 millimetre[12]

Why It Matters

standard-gauge railway has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 143 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . taginfo.openstreetmap.org. taginfo.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16w ago · Pi bot bot · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → 1435 mm track gauge
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Commons category: Standard gauge (1435 mm or 4 ft 8½ in track gauge), Update P373 to avoid commons category redirect"
  2. 16w ago · Hattori 15 · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Standard-gauge railways
    Instance of → —
    Width → {'unit': 'Q174789', 'amount': '+1435'}
    Aliases → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: Comparison of British track gauges.svg"
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