- Cape gauge
Cape gauge is a
rail gauge of RailGauge|1067 and thus belongs tonarrow gauge . It has installations of around 112,000 km.The gauge RailGauge|1067 was first used by Norwegian engineer
Carl Abraham Pihl and the first line was opened in 1861.Cape gauge is named after the
Cape Province inSouth Africa which adopted this gauge twelve years later, in 1873. [cite book |title=Narrow Gauge Steam |last=Ransom |first=P.J.G. |publisher=Oxford Publishing Co. |year=1996 |id=ISBN 0860935337 |page=page 107] [cite book |title=The Atlas of African Affairs |author=Griffiths, Ieuan Ll |coauthors=Rowland, Susan |page=page 168 |year=1994 |publisher=Routledge |id=ISBN 0415054885] . It is sometimes alternatively known as CAP gauge, after C.A.Pihl. [cite journal |title=Backwardness for ever: Norwegian railway engineers and the narrow gauge, light railway system |author=Bergh, Trond |year=2001 |journal=EBHA Conference 2001: Business and Knowledge A1: Knowledge as platform for strategy |page=page 15]Installations
112,000 km worldwide [http://www.forum1520.com/about/about1520.php] .
* Rail transport in Southern and Central Africa
* Indonesia 5,961 km [cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/id.html |title=CIA World Factbook, Indonesia]
* Japan 20,182 km [cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html |title=CIA World Factbook, Japan]
* Taiwan 1,097 km (Taiwan Railway Administration )
* Philippines 900 km Fact|date=July 2008
* New Zealand 3,900 km
* Australia 15,160 km
** Queensland
** Tasmania
** West AustraliaFormer installations
* In Norway a number of main lines were built in the 19th century with RailGauge|1067, and later rebuilt to
standard gauge .References
See also
* Medium gauge railways, by gauge and country
*Carl Abraham Pihl#Gauge controversy External links
* http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr31/f33_sai.html - Why Did Japan Choose the 3'6" Narrow Gauge?
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