British standard gauge is four feet eight-and-a-half inches. I'm
ashamed to know that.
Terry
"Alan K. Outram" wrote:
>
> I'm really not quite sure how this is advancing archaeology
> or zoology (what exactly will it tell us about chariots?),
> but since we have started....
>
> I believe that the modern European railway gauge was
> calculated by doing an average of cart wheelbases in
> Britain in the early 19th century. Brunel wanted a wider
> gauge - he was, of course, right. So if someboby knows the
> gauge of tracks... (an anorak fact I used to know but
> cannot now remember).
>
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> Alan K. Outram
> University of Exeter
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