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Brio gauge seems to be the de facto standard for wooden toy railways. Pretty much all the cheaper makes of track fit (more or less) the Brio track and accommodate the Brio trains; the cheaper trains and carriages run on the same tracks, and even use the same (magnetic) coupling mechanism.
The Brio stuff is better quality and they have the lucrative Thomas franchise. I’d like to think that BRIO benefits from the cheaper compatible copies somehow expanding the market; I like the idea of free-market cooperation as well as competition.