Broad Gauge
![[Accident at Hollacombe]](/thumbs/t2x24x9.jpg)
During fifty four years of its existence the Great Western Railway ran broad gauge trains. These ran on tracks with a distance between the rails of 7ft1/4 rather than 4ft81/2 that is now standard on railways in the UK.
Written by DF, Year 6 , Jan 2003
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Technical Information (Metadata)
| Title | Value |
|---|---|
| Description: | |
| Written by | DF, Year 6 , Jan 2003 |
| Organisation | Ellacombe Primary School |
| Website | not stated |
| Contributor | Ellacombe Primary School |
| Item | |
| Identifier | ref 9 |
| Contributor | Mark Pool |
| Date | 1866 |
| Format | mounted sepia toned photograph; mount 130 mm x 2150 mm; photo 165 mm x 950 |
| Language | en-uk |
| Coverage | Devon. Hollacombe |
| Source | Torbay Library Services |
| Subject | Railways. Trains. Broad gauge. Accidents |
| Type | Image |
| Publisher | Torbay Library Services |
| Rights | Torbay Library Services |
| Keywords | steam engine train broad gauge engineering |
