Talk:Bosnian-gauge railways

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"Austro-Hungarian standard narrow gauge"[edit]

this article should extensively renamed all across articles to "Austro-Hungarian standard narrow gauge", as this was that. that we name it after Bosnia is just an arbitrariness and could be called then austrian or whatever part as well, as everywhere this was introduced in place of the various previous systems. stupid to single out one.--Aaa3-other | Talk | Contribs 04:26, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

changed my mind, enough to mention here as alt name, as now i learned its history justifies it --Aaa3-other | Talk | Contribs 13:28, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Terminology[edit]

Can anyone give any cites for the term "Austro-Hungarian standard narrow gauge"? Should we not be using English terminology, rather than a neologism in slightly broken English? The term Bosnian gauge is (sometimes) used in British English for 2'6"(ish) lines in central Europe (I think describing, say, the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway as Bosnian gauge would be a little unusual). I put [citation needed] on the term and was called an "idiot" for doing so. Yet Bosnian gauge was self-evidently not "std across t whole region" - standard gauge was more common across the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, and their successors. We don't call Russian gauge "Russian standard broad gauge", Irish gauge "Irish standard broad gauge", etc. Wheeltapper (talk) 12:23, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1, sry for the offensive term, 2, was called for it not AT ALL because of your edit, but for your edithistory comment << "standard narrow" gauge?! >> – my english is broken i admit, but sorry but thats such an idiotic coupling of 2 words within the 3 element compound that it striked me as what a grotesquely illogical one, 3, i removed the citation needed because i dont think we should a need a source for a simple self-explanatory [i was wrong] descriptionary phrase. if you really disagree ok put it back... (and oh, for 4, reading "Yet Bosnian gauge was not standard across the whole region - [1435 mm, clarification by the quotator] gauge was more common", you STILL dont understand what did i mean under standard narrow gauge - it is a standard amongs the category of narrow gauges, not across railway gauges in general - ie, you have 2 standards here, one 1435 for normal, one 760 for narrow ones. im breathless...) another hypothethical country might have standardised on 1600, ostensibly for main lines, and on 1000 for regional or low-traffic/seasonal/etc ones, and yet another might have only a standard for 1524, and not any for narrow gauges, having dozens of non-stand ones. but here, this wasn't so. maybe your feel for the need of citation was because this miscomprehension. --Aaa3-other | Talk | Contribs 18:53, 30 March 2012 (UTC) - p.s. re: to the rus-ir examples - of course one doesnt, because broad or not, compared to 1435, they were/are the norm there occupying the same place which 1435 occupies elsewhere, so you (can) call them, according to this logic, not "russian standard broad gauge" but "russian standard gauge", only we can even omit "standard" as main gauges of choice are very usually standardised within a country. narrow gauge however is different (at least this particular one was, and most countries in the world are also not having a narrow one as their main gauge of choice), it was a second in these countries after a main one, therefore we need to differentiate them when referring to them somehow. maybe it was uncommon anywhere else to also attempt to have a standard for such secondary railways too, that this attempt to describe sounds so unfamiliar? well i have no idea im not much into railways, aside from the few occasional books/articles..[reply]
The problem is that "standard" has a very specific meaning in a railway gauge context, and I think it is best avoided outside that context. Places do have narrow gauges as domestic standards - metre (southeast Asia), and 1067 (Japan, much of Africa) are fairly common.
Australia (Irish, Standard, Cape) and India are the obvious examples of countries with multiple gauges. British India had three "standardised" gauges: 5ft 6in which is generally just called "broad gauge" when the context is obviously the Indian subcontinent, metre gauge (was very extensive) and narrow gauge (2ft 6in for standardisation in India, but various other gauges exist(ed) on minor lines). But while these three were officially standardised, it would be unusual to refer to them as standard gauges (there was some 1435 mm in India, but not much). Wheeltapper (talk) 19:16, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
ok, if really unusual then nvm--Aaa3-other | Talk | Contribs 20:12, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For this gauge an article list exists[edit]

Currently, all articles that mention this gauge listed in Category:Articles with template RailGauge that may need attention. Interested editors can approach each article and check for categorization, linkcheck, and more.

How is this done? {{RailGauge}} has internally marked this gauge for this listing (categorizing). Now every article that uses {RailGauge} with this gauge, by input |760mm or equal, is categorized. See that category page for details about exact inclusions and their sorting. Note that this listing is not guaranteed to be permanent. Over time other gauges may be listed. To discuss these listings, see Template talk:RailGauge. -DePiep (talk) 07:57, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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