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Mixed gauge track in the British Isles

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Didn't the major exporting loco manufacturers - North British, Vulcan, etc - Have multiple mixed gauge test tracks at their factories?
 

daveinstoke

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Port Stanley !, there is the 2' line. This is part of the camber line & Navy point area . This area all so has standard guage track, for the steam crane at Navy point. Most of which was laid in ww1.
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The Steeple Grange Railway at Wirksworth, Derbyshire must have one of the shortest mixed gauge stretches, but does have the claim that both are still operational. The original route of the line was standard gauge but there's none of that around the site these days.
The main line is 18" but there is a stretch of 2' at the terminus
Check out their website for more details

Other than 18-inch Gauge​

Sales Van
This vehicle is mounted on a 2-foot gauge chassis, and gives us the claim to fame that we regularly operate one of the few dual-gauge narrow-gauge railways in Britain, on mixed-gauge track. On operating days, the Sales Van is rolled out along a few yards of 2-foot gauge line, where it shares one rail with the 18 inch gauge running line.
 
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