break-of-gauge station

English

Map of break-of-gauge stations in Switzerland (two different track gauges, based on image locations in Wikimedia Commons)

Noun

break-of-gauge station (plural break-of-gauge stations)

1. (rail transport) a railway station where railways of different track gauges meet, and where transhipment of goods and passengers takes place. Some of these stations have a bogie changing facility.

Related terms

• break of gauge

Translations

break-of-gauge station

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sporbruddstasjon m