List of gauge conversions

List of gauge conversions

Railway gauge conversions include:

During WWI and WWII, gauge conversion occurred backwards and forwards between Germany and Russia as the fronts and national borders chopped and changed.

Timeline

* Bostan - Zhob railgauge|762 to railgauge|1676. Report suggests conversion to railgauge|1435 [ http://www.dawn.com/2006/08/08/nat18.htm ]

2000

* India conversion of 17,000 km of meter gauge to 1676 mm broad gauge under project Unigauge
* Melbourne to Adelaide - 600 km of convertible sleepers installed in 1990 to facilitate quick conversion in 1995.
* Adelaide - convertible sleepers installed should gauge conversion be needed in future.
* Port Harcourt - Onne, Nigeria - convertible sleepers installed since gauge conversion not imminent.
* The Mt Gambier line in South Australia was fitted with some 3-gauge steel sleepers when it was "temporarily" converted from 1067 mm to 1600 mm in the 1950s, pending later conversion to 1435 mm from 2008.
* Central Asia - while flagicon|China China and flagicon|Europe Europe are connected by rail, and while both are mainly 1435 mm, the intervening Central Asia Railways are 1520 mm gauge. Intervening lines are gradually been made gauge convertible to facilitate and eventual linkage of the Chinese and European standard gauge system.
* Tanzania in 2008 is proposing 1000 mm/1067 mm steel sleepers and 1000 mm/1435 mm concrete sleepers to suit gauge conversion.

Conversions to standard gauge

* 1941 Brest-Minsk [http://militera.lib.ru/h/stolfi/11.html]
* 1970 Indian Pacific
* Spain is building its High Speed lines to 1435 mm gauge, even though the existing system is 1668 mm; new cutoff lines are being built with gauge convertible sleepers for easy conversion to standard gauge when required.
* May 2008 - agreement reached to standardise 200km of 1600mm track carrying declining traffic from Seymour to Albury, making double track 1435mm route for increasing interstate traffic. The drought affected wheat-only 1600mm Oaklands branchline will be left as an orphan for time being. The cost of converting this 126km line has been estimated as just over $13m. [ [http://www.kenjasper.net.au/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=269&Itemid=9 Ken Jasper MLA, Member for Murray Valley - Jasper supports Oaklands rail line upgrade ] ]

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