Almost, it was Brunel who championed the 7’ gauge,Stephenson’s , - Wrath of the Barclay

Almost, it was Brunel who championed the 7’ gauge,Stephenson’s ,

Locomotion No.1 and Rocket had standard 4’ gauge

Posted By: Augustus Pablo on March 14th 2018 at 12:56:40

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This is probably untrue. But I found it oddly pleasing nonetheless. (General Chat) - Old Man, Mar 14, 08:18:48
- poi (n/m) (General Chat) - Bristol Graham, Mar 14, 10:13:32
- Great stuff but it is arse of course (n/m) (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Mar 14, 10:09:17
- Broadly true (General Chat) - CWC, Mar 14, 10:08:29
  - Almost, it was Brunel who championed the 7’ gauge,Stephenson’s , (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Mar 14, 12:56:40
    - err, yes... (General Chat) - CWC, Mar 14, 15:06:53
      - Yep that sounds about right.Btw, my wife is on record as saying that she would’ve (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Mar 14, 18:21:15
- That's like, blown my mind man. (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Mar 14, 09:36:35
  - Oh. (General Chat) - bird table, Mar 14, 09:42:44
    - Fuck off.... I like the original story (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Mar 14, 09:57:46
- However if we’d adopted Brunel’s broad gauge of 7’ that he had on the GWR then (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Mar 14, 09:20:30
- The horse has a pet ass? (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Mar 14, 09:10:02
  - Arse, it's arse (n/m) (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Mar 14, 10:09:41
- Brilliant! I dont care if that's true or not...I'm using it ;) (n/m) (General Chat) - berstreetsfinest, Mar 14, 08:43:41
  - off course its true (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Mar 14, 09:06:06

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