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This is intended to gather information for my project to document historical Loading and structure gauges. The information as it stands in on this page. https://devboats.co.uk/gwdrawings/loadinggauges.php All contributions welcome, but please do your very best to document sources. 

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Pre 1850

From McDermott, History of the Great Western Railway, Vol1, pub GWR1923

P65 on.  This is from Brunel's July 1838 report to the board.  To my mind the report contains some special pleading and rather mixed logic!  At this stage Brunel is envisaging carriage bodies set between large diameter wheels, and there is no thought of mixed gauges.  He notes that larger track gauge does not necessarily mean a larger loading gauge.  It appears that the concepts of loading gauge and structure gauge are still somewhat loose at this time, although Brunel i
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