1The maximum permitted height and width for rolling stock on a railway.
（铁路运输车辆所允许的）最大高度和宽度
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At an early stage Teito decided to build its tunnels to a standard (for Japan) track gauge and loading gauge (that's the size of the car) and a standard power supply.
It was always recognised that the loading gauge in Britain was different from Europe where bridges were higher and wagons wider.
It could easily be a tourist railway in the Dandenongs, just with greater speed and a bigger loading gauge.
1.1A frame suspended above a railway track to indicate the maximum permitted height and width for rolling stock.
（铁路车辆）最大高度及宽度限制告示牌
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With chimney, etc., to the limits of the 17 ft. high Russian loading gauge, it doesn't look anything much, and sadly the owners did not seem to get on with it; there were, of course, special arrangements to avoid freezing up.