metre-gauge

adjective

Built as or for metre gauge.

Meanings

adjectivemetre-gauge (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerail transportBuilt 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
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