narrow gauge

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   a railroad track (or its width) narrower than the standard 56.5 inches

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Questions about narrow gauge

What does narrow gauge mean?

narrow gauge means "a railroad track (or its width) narrower than the standard 56.5 inches".

Is narrow gauge a common word?

narrow gauge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.