| railway gauge (i) |
tetsudo kikan gauge in feet and inches |
2ft 6 light railway 3ft 6 JNR/JR 4ft 6 horse tram 4ft 8.5 Shinkansen |
| railway gauge (ii) |
tetsudo kikan gauge in mm |
762 light railway 1,067 JNR/JR 1,372 horse tram 1,435 Shinkansen |
| railway gauge (iii) |
a gauge chosen epitomises path dependency |
a job lot of 3ft 6 equipment for Ceylon happened to have been rerouted to Japan |
| railway gauge (iv) |
the job lot decided the first major line as 3ft 6 in 1872 |
the army wanted a regauging to 4ft 8.5 for capacity and promoted nationalisation |
| railway gauge (v) |
a railway to every rice paddy! satirical |
2ft 6/3ft 6 or 4ft 8.5 rural versus urban + military conflict over railway budget |
| railway gauge (vi) |
nationalisation was on the Prussian Model in 1906 |
without budget a regauging did not occur until the very different Shinkansen |
| Breitspurbahn |
German 3m super broad gauge railway |
1940s diesel electric network plan for the new Europe cf dangan ressha |
| nankai dentetsu jiken |
Nankai Electric Railway Incident |
a socially complicated stock cornering damaging foreign brokers in the 1980s |
| toei chikatetsu |
Tokyo Metropolis managed underground railway |
underground railway system managed as a Tokyo LAME vs Tokyo Metro |
| bunkiten |
diverging point forking point |
as soneki bunkiten break even point, tetsudo bunkiten railway junction |
| chika |
underground |
as chikasui groundwater, koei chikatetsu municipal underground railway |
| Fukuoka |
leading city in Kyushu classically Hakata |
Fukuoka main railway station confusingly also named Hakata |
| kani |
simple convenient |
as kani seimei hoken easy life assurance, kani tetsudo 2ft 6 gauge light railway |
| motorways |
a motorway to every rice paddy! satirical |
rural versus urban + military railway budget dispute revisited cf railway gauge |
| path dependency |
Thomas Hughes 1923 - 2014 |
technological momentum entrenches a selected technology cf railway gauge |
