System for operating railway wagons on two or more gauges
Track gauge
By transport mode
Tram
Rapid transit
Miniature
Scale model
By size (list)
Minimum
Minimum
Fifteen inch
381 mm
(15 in)
Narrow
600 mm
Two foot
Two foot three inch
600 mm
610 mm
686 mm
(1 ft 11+5⁄8 in)
(2 ft)
(2 ft 3 in)
750 mm
Bosnian gauge
Two foot six inch
750 mm
760 mm
762 mm
(2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
(2 ft 5+15⁄16 in)
(2 ft 6 in)
Swedish three foot
900 mm
Three foot
Italian metre
891 mm
900 mm
914 mm
950 mm
(2 ft 11+3⁄32 in)
(2 ft 11+7⁄16 in)
(3 ft)
(3 ft1+13⁄32 in)
Metre
1,000 mm
(3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Three foot six inch
1,067 mm
(3 ft 6 in)
Four foot
1,219 mm
(4 ft)
Four foot six inch
1,372 mm
(4 ft 6 in)
1432 mm
1,432 mm
(4 ft 8+3⁄8 in)
Standard
1,435 mm
(4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Broad
Italian broad gauge
Dresden gauge
1,445 mm
1,450 mm
(4 ft 8+7⁄8 in)
(4 ft 9+3⁄32 in)
Leipzig gauge
1,458 mm
(4 ft 9+13⁄32 in)
Toronto gauge
1,495 mm
(4 ft 10+7⁄8 in)
1520 mm
Five foot
1,520 mm
1,524 mm
(4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)
(5 ft)
Pennsylvania gauge
Pennsylvania gauge
Five foot three inch
1,581 mm
1,588 mm
1,600 mm
(5 ft 2+1⁄4 in)
(5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
(5 ft 3 in)
Baltimore gauge
1,638 mm
(5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
Iberian gauge
Five foot six inch
1,668 mm
1,676 mm
(5 ft 5+21⁄32 in)
(5 ft 6 in)
Six foot
1,829 mm
(6 ft)
Brunel
2,140 mm
(7 ft 1⁄4 in)
Change of gauge
Break-of-gauge
Dual gauge
Conversion
list
Bogie exchange
Variable gauge
By location
North America
South America
Europe
Australia
A drawing of the Ramsey car-transfer apparatus from the patent application
Bogie exchange is a system for operating railway wagons on two or more gauges to overcome difference in the track gauge. To perform a bogie exchange, a car is converted from one gauge to another by removing the bogies or trucks (the chassis containing the wheels and axles of the car), and installing a new bogie with differently spaced wheels. It is generally limited to wagons and carriages, though the bogies on diesel locomotives can be exchanged if enough time is available.
Bogies exchange operation in Ussuriisk (near Vladivostok) at the Chinese–Russian borderBogie change station at Chop railway station in Ukraine, which connects to Hungary and Slovakia
The term can also refer to the rebuilding of rolling-stock for permanent use on another gauge, e.g. the Little Joe electric locomotives intended for the Soviet Union (Russian gauge) which were rebuilt for use in the United States, or the New Zealand British Rail Mark 2 carriage rebuilt for use on the NZR Cape gauge
Bogieexchange is a system for operating railway wagons on two or more gauges to overcome difference in the track gauge. To perform a bogieexchange, a...
road train or in railway bogieexchange). It may include a suspension component within it (as most rail and trucking bogies do), or be solid and in turn...
including transferring freight, replacing individual wheels and axles, bogieexchange, transporter flatcars or the simple transshipment of freight or passengers...
was provided to connect Sakhalin and the Russia mainland, requiring bogieexchange on wagons to allow operation on the Russian mainland 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)...
until 1928. In the meantime, the railway became proficient in changing bogies on freight cars between gauges at interchange points. Some branch lines...
narrow-gauge equipment. Solutions to interchangeability problems include bogieexchanges, a rollbock system, dual gauge, variable gauge, or gauge conversion...
Estonia (The difference is within tolerance limits, so it is possible to exchange trains between 1520 mm and 1524 mm networks without changes to the wheelsets...
was expanded. Work on modernizing the facility for passenger railcar bogieexchange was conducted as well. Lidia Bobrova, film director Longest trains Russian...
variable-gauge axles would achieve significant time savings in comparison to bogieexchange. However, their implementation would involve a much higher capital cost...
had yet come into clear dominance. Freight transfer was preferable to exchange of cars between railways because unowned cars were abused on foreign railways...
the Vanino-Kholmsk train ferry, operating since 1973, had to have their bogies changed in the Sakhalin port of Kholmsk. In 2004 and 2008 plans were put...
size (list) Change of gauge Break-of-gauge Dual gauge Conversion list Bogieexchange Variable gauge By location North America South America Europe Australia...
size (list) Change of gauge Break-of-gauge Dual gauge Conversion list Bogieexchange Variable gauge By location North America South America Europe Australia...
"gauge change". Goods wagons are still subject to either bogieexchange or wheelset exchange. Some steam locomotives were constructed to be reconfigured...
allowing trains to run on this route without the interruption of a bogieexchange at some point on the journey. Kaliningrad North railway station serves...
size (list) Change of gauge Break-of-gauge Dual gauge Conversion list Bogieexchange Variable gauge By location North America South America Europe Australia...
size (list) Change of gauge Break-of-gauge Dual gauge Conversion list Bogieexchange Variable gauge By location North America South America Europe Australia...
size (list) Change of gauge Break-of-gauge Dual gauge Conversion list Bogieexchange Variable gauge By location North America South America Europe Australia...
size (list) Change of gauge Break-of-gauge Dual gauge Conversion list Bogieexchange Variable gauge By location North America South America Europe Australia...
Britain, in order to allow through-running of rolling stock by the use of bogieexchange. Buffers and chain couplers tend to have the two buffers spaced according...
size (list) Change of gauge Break-of-gauge Dual gauge Conversion list Bogieexchange Variable gauge By location North America South America Europe Australia...
size (list) Change of gauge Break-of-gauge Dual gauge Conversion list Bogieexchange Variable gauge By location North America South America Europe Australia...
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