Hello Michael,
I am not a native speaker,
but I have some hint:
[1, 2] denote two meanings to "loading gauge": 1) profile which must not be exceeded 2) metal frame above track to mark the limits for loading a wagon (German "Lademaß")
[1] Alan A. Jackson: The Railway Dictionary, 4th edition, Sutton Publishing, Stroud 2006, ISBN 0-7509-4218-5.
[2] Mike Smith: Goods & Not So Goods - An overview of railway freight operations for modellers, http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gansg/2-track/02track3.htm
Regards Micha
Am 18.03.2016 um 14:35 schrieb Michael Reichert:
Dear native English (BE) speakers,
how would you call this? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lademass.jpg
I am currently translating the missings sections of the infrastructure JOSM preset into English. I find it difficult to translate the German word "Lademaßlehre". I only found the "Loading gauge profile gate" which describes the picture linked above. But googling this term returns only two results. That's why I suspect that it might be the invention of a German who searched an English term and did not find any.
They are currently tagged as railway=loading_gauge on nodes.
Best regards
Michael
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