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metre-gauge

metre-gauge adjective: built as or for metre gauge.

Adjective

metre-gauge (not comparable)

  1. Built as or for metre gauge.
    • Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.1960 December, 'Voyageur', “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750

Questions about metre-gauge

What does metre-gauge mean?
Metre-gauge means built as or for metre gauge.
What part of speech is metre-gauge?
Metre-gauge is an adjective.

Words near metre-gauge in the dictionary

  1. metre
  2. metre gauge
  3. metre per second
  4. metre stick
  5. metre sticks
  6. metre-gauge
  7. metre-kilogram-second
  8. metre-kilogramme-second
  9. metre-ton-second
  10. metre-tonne-second
  11. metreage

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