Juan Manuel Grijalvo – High-speed railways and «standard» gauge
Great Western Railway – «Dragon» at Taunton – 1892
14 August 2011
The feet, inches and miles mentioned in this article
are those of the English system of measures,
also known as «Imperial.»
Please bear in mind that all the countries in the world
-and very many cities- had their own sets of measures…
until that not-so-very-general metrication. […]