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Originally Posted by legion
The standard gauge of most railroads in the world (roughly 60%) is 4 ft., 8½ inches.
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That's amazing! I was just about to post that fact and that that measurement is that of the Roman chariot's tread (track?), which is the measurement used for the rails of England's early railroads (old Roman roads, along which the earliest railways in England were built, were designed around the chariots track (tread?) - I seem to recall.