The Flying Dutchman, right, passing Acton station, London, England on the Great Western Railway at sixty miles an hour in the 19th century. The Great Western Railway operated on a dual gauge system using a broad gauge of 7 ft (until 1892) and a standard gauge of 4 ft 8 1?2 in. From The Century Edition of Cassell's History of England, published c. 1900
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