Costs
Many engineers considered the cost of a railway varies with some power of the gauge, so that the narrower gauge the cheaper it might be. This applied also to different narrow gauges, such as a proposed line in Papua using either 610 mm (2 ft) or 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in).
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