List of track gauges

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Template:Short description Template:Sidebar track gauge

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Map of the world's railways showing the different major gauges in use <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" />
  3 ft gauge (914 mm)
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  Meter gauge (1,000 mm)
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  Cape gauge (1,067 mm)
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  Standard gauge (1,435 mm)
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  Russian gauge (1,520 mm)
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  Irish gauge (1,600 mm)
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  Iberian gauge (1,668 mm)
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  Indian gauge (1,676 mm)

This list presents an overview of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails.

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  Narrow gauge (1,067 mm)
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  Standard gauge (1,435 mm)
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  Broad gauge (1,600 mm)
The large network of narrow-gauge sugar cane light railways, almost all 610 mm (2 ft) gauge, is not shown. See Rail gauge in Australia.
File:Triple-gauge track on turntable, Gladstone, South Australia (HSWilliams).jpg
Triple-gauge track on turntable, Gladstone, South Australia

Track gauges by size

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600 mm to 1676 mm

Minimum and ridable miniature railways

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". For ridable miniature railways and minimum-gauge railways, the gauges are overlapping. There are also some extreme narrow-gauge railways listed. See: Distinction between a ridable miniature railway and a minimum-gauge railway for clarification.

Model railway gauges are covered in rail transport modelling scales.

File:Orchid Line - 2009-10-25.jpg
Train with model Southern Railway Schools class
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Triple-gauge pointwork (<templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />3+1⁄2 in, 5 in, and <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />7+1⁄4 in) on the Orchid Line. The upper right branch does not include the <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />3+1⁄2 in gauge.
Gauge Country Notes
Metric Imperial
 
89 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />3+1⁄2 in (89 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
121 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />4+3⁄4 in (121 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
127 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauge ridable miniature railways.
145 mm <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />5+7⁄10 in and <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />5+45⁄64 in Denmark Brandhøjbanendk, at Hedeland veteran railwaydk, Hedeland, Hedehusene, Høje-Taastrup. Mixed gauge:

Template:RailGauge, <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />5+7⁄10 in (145 mm) and Template:RailGauge gauges are all in use on this model-miniature railway.,[1][2] there is also one at Denmark’s railway museum in Odense,[3][4][5] one at the Tramway Museum Skjoldenæsholm, Jystrup, Ringsted,[6] and many other model-miniature railways in Denmark[7][8][9][10] and Model lane Europe, Hadsten, Favrskov[11] and many others.[12][13][14][15]

184 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />7+1⁄4 (184 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
190.5 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauge ridable miniature railways.
210 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />8+1⁄4 in (210 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
229 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 9 in (229 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
England Railway built by minimum-gauge pioneer Sir Arthur Heywood, later abandoned in favor of Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauge.
240 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />9+7⁄16 in (240 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
241 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />9+1⁄2 in (241 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
260 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />10+1⁄4 in (260 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
267 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Beale Park miniature railway
305 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 12 in (305 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
310 mm <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />12+13⁄64 in Denmark See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark.
311 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Wales Fairbourne Railway
340 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Netherlands Ridable miniature railway in DierenPark Amersfoort[16]
350 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Netherlands Collection Decauville Spoorweg Museum[17]
356 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States See 14 in (356 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways and Chicago Tunnel Company (during construction process).
368 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States John J. Coit's Seaside Park Miniature Railway and Long Beach and Asbury Park Railway
381 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 15 in gauge railways.
400 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Denmark See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark.
France Agricultural field railways (Decauville portable track)
406 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States See 16 in (406 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
419 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Canada See <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />16+1⁄2 in (419 mm) gauge ridable miniature railway.
England Berkhamsted Gasworks Railway[18]
432 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Long Rake Spar mine, underground mine railway[19]
450 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Czech Republic Industrial railways[20]
England Littlethorpe Potteries, hand-worked line connecting clay pits to pottery[21]
457 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Crewe Works Railway, Horwich Works Railway, Royal Arsenal Railway, Sand Hutton Light Railway, Steeple Grange Light Railway
United States Eastlake Park Scenic Railway, Venice Miniature Railway and Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad
Australia National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
470 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Travel Town Museum miniature railway
483 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Isle of Man Great Laxey Mine Railway
United States Swanton Pacific Railroad
495 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Ayle Colliery mine railway, Athole G. Allen Ltd. Closehouse Barytes Mine railway[19]

Narrow gauge

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Railways with a track gauge between Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..

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A diamond crossing of tracks of two different gauges
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A diamond crossing of tracks of two different gauges
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Narrow-gauge track
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Comparison of four track gauges
Gauge Country Notes
Metric Imperial
 
500 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Austria Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald Feldbahn
Argentina Tren del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia – Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego
Denmark See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark
France Several Decauville portable railways, Chemin de Fer Touristique du Tarn, Petit train d'Artouste
Hungary Mining railways in Pilisszentiván (defunct), Törökszentmiklós brick factory
508 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Great Woburn Railway situated in Woburn Safari Park; and North Bay Railway near Scarborough
United States Confusion Hill
Russia Krasnoyarsk Child Railway
<templatestyles src="Template:Visible anchor/styles.css" />520 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Several mine railways. Origine: from 1 ft 8 in preußische Zoll = 523.2 mm.[22]
533 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Pleasure Beach Express
550 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Denmark Mønsted Kalkgruber, in a former limestone quarry, railway is preserved.

Narrow-gauge railways in Europe
Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark.

Germany Mine railways in Mayen
557 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Dominican Republic Transport in the Dominican Republic
<templatestyles src="Template:Visible anchor/styles.css" />560 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Salt mine railway in Berchtesgaden[23]
<templatestyles src="Template:Visible anchor/styles.css" />575 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Iron ore mine railways in Bad Ems and Ramsbeck[24]
578 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Lakeside Amusement Park & San Francisco Zoo
Wales Penrhyn Quarry Railway
<templatestyles src="Template:Visible anchor/styles.css" />580 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Austria Wolfsegg Traunthaler Kohlenwerke in Ampflwang im Hausruckwald[25]
Hungary Mining railways in Dorog (defunct)
597 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways
2 ft gauge railways in Australia
2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways in the United Kingdom
600 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
603 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
610 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
620 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Slovenia Cave railway in the Postojna Cave[26]
622 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Wales Penrhyn Quarry Railway, until 1879
<templatestyles src="Template:Visible anchor/styles.css" />630 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Brickworks in Zehdenick[27]
<templatestyles src="Template:Visible anchor/styles.css" />655 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Schlebusch-Harkorter Coal RailwayScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
660 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Industrial and mine railways in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate
Japan Yamanashi horse-drawn tramway
Wales Cwt y Bugail quarry
682 mm <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />2+27⁄32 in Denmark See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark
686 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See List of 2 ft 3 in gauge railways
693 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sweden 28 Swedish inches.[28] Several railways.
700 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Denmark See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark and Narrow-gauge railways in Europe. Common for sugar beet or sugar cane railways and peat railways. Hedeland veteran railway is preserveddk.[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]
  • Store Vildmose railway don’t exist anymore, only a few materials and only one train remains for preservation on Hedeland veteran railway.[42][43][35][44][45]
  • Stenvad Mosebrug (Stenvad Mosebrugscenter), Mosebrugsbanen peat museum railway is preserved.[46][47][48][49]
  • Bunkermuseum Hanstholm museum (MuseumsCenter Hanstholm) railway is preserved.[50][51]
  • Blovstrød Banen railway is preserved.
  • Lille Vildmose (Lille Vildmosecentret), Lille Vildmose Museum Center, Dokkedal railway is preserved.[52][53]
  • Ree Park – America Expresses.[54]
  • Østerbygård Dambrug is an active industrial railway.[55]
  • Fuglsø mose is an active industrial railway.[56][57]
  • Pindstrup Mosebrug is an active industrial railway.[58][59][60][61][62][63][64][43]
England Biwater Pipes and Castings[65]
France Chemin de fer d'Abreschviller
Hungary Pálházi State Forest Railway (1888-1947, rebuilt to 760 mm)
Indonesia Once used by 36 sugar mills in Java, only 23 still in use.
Latvia Used in some peat railways
Netherlands Used in industrial, peat, and field railways
711 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Snailbeach District Railways
716 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Poland Dobre Aleksandrowskie – Kruszwica railway[66] (operating tourist railway)
724 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Wales Guest Keen Baldwins Iron and Steel Company Ltd.: Briton Ferry Steelworks,[67] Glyn Valley Tramway
737 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England St. Michael's Mount Tramway[68]
<templatestyles src="Template:Visible anchor/styles.css" />740 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Luxembourg Minière et Métallurgique de Rodange mine railway[69]
750 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 750 mm gauge railways
760 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Bulgaria Origin: <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄2 Austrian fathom
See Bosnian gauge

Septemvri – Dobriniste narrow railway

762 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 2 ft 6 in gauge railways
765 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". DR Congo Matadi–Kinshasa Railway, converted to Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1925–1931.[70]
Denmark See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark
775 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Jee's Hartshill Granite Quarry[71]
Germany Template:Interlanguage link, a funicular in Bad Pyrmont
785 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Denmark See Narrow-gauge railways in Europe and Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark. Hjerl Hede museum (Frilandsmuseum) peat railway is preserved, 785 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and 791 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauges are both used on this railway.[72]
Germany Origin: <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />2+1⁄2 Prussian feet
Bröl Valley Railway
Poland Silesian Interurbans, Upper Silesian narrow gauge railways
791 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Denmark See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark and Narrow-gauge railways in Europe. Faxe Jernbane in southern Zealand, 791 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and 785 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 2½ feet (785 mm) both gauges were used at Faxe Jernbane and Faxe limestone quarry, none remains, only a few materials and trains from Faxe Jernbane and Faxe limestone quarry remains for preservation on Hedeland veteran railwaydk.[73][74]
800 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 800 mm gauge railways
802 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sweden Far behind Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., one of the most common narrow gauges in Sweden, for example the Template:Interlanguage link (1874–1970) in Värmland. Never formed much of a network, none remain.
813 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Winnal Gasworks Railway[75]
Wales Rhosydd Quarry, a counterbalance weight for a Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauge incline;
820 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Prince William Railway Company, Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr railway, converted to standard gauge.
825 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway (a vehicle that ran on two parallel Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauge tracks, billed as Script error: No such module "convert". gauge), Furzebrook Railway and Volk's Electric Railway
838 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Japan Nankai Railway (former gauge, converted to 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in gauge)
England Seaton Tramway, Volk's Electric Railway (former gauge)
850 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Italy Ponte Tresa-Luino (1924: converted to Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauge, 1950: closed)

Menaggio–Porlezza railway (1939: closed)

860 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Alsen´sche Portland-Cementfabrik KG in Itzehoe[76]
876 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Biwater Pipes and Castings[77] Cattybrook Brickworks railway[18]
<templatestyles src="Template:Visible anchor/styles.css" />880 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Bayerisches Moor- und Torfmuseum,[78] Peat museum (operating)
Norway Industrial railway in Stokke
<templatestyles src="Template:Visible anchor/styles.css" />889 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Miller Engineering & Construction Ltd. Sandiacre depot[79]
Germany Schlebusch-Harkorter Coal RailwayScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
891 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sweden 3 Swedish feet

See Swedish three-foot–gauge railways

900 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 900 mm gauge railways
914 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 3 ft gauge railways
3 ft gauge railways in the United Kingdom
925 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Trams in Chemnitz, since in 1914
943 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Central Electricity Generating Board Fawley Tunnel[75]
946 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Austria Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2,[80] a funicular partly inside a tunnel.
950 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Eritrea Eritrean Railway
Hungary Zsuzsi Forest Railway (1882-1961, re-built to 760 mm)
Italy Cagliari light rail, Circumvesuviana, Dolomites Railway, Ferrovia Circumetnea, Ferrovie della Sardegna, Metrosassari, Rome–Giardinetti railway, Rome–Fiuggi railway
Libya Italian Libya Railways
Somalia Mogadishu-Villabruzzi Railway
955 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Switzerland Polybahn funicular
965 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Clifton Rocks Railway
United States Birmingham Coal Company Railroad, Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railroad, Keeling Coal Company, and Streetcars in Monterey (1891–1914)
972 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Betchworth Quarry Railways
985 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Switzerland Zugerberg Funicular
1,000 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See metre-gauge railway
1,009 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Bulgaria Sofia Tramway
1,016 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Scotland Kilmarnock and Troon Railway
United States Coal Hill Coal Railroad, Keeling Coal Company, Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Plane, Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad
1,029 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Herne Bay Pier Railway
1,035 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Lake Lock Rail Road
1,040 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Austria Festungsbahn (Salzburg)
1,050 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Jordan Hejaz railway
Syria
Lebanon and Syria Former Beyrouth – Damascus Railway, in Lebanon mostly dismantled
Syria and
Saudi Arabia 		Hejaz railway (Damascus–Medina)
1,055 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Algeria National Company for Rail Transport
1,067 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 3 ft 6 in gauge railways
1,093 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Middlesbrough Corporation Tramways, Middlesbrough, Stockton and Thornaby Electric Tramways Company and Swinefleet Works
Sweden Köping–Uttersberg–Riddarhyttan Railway, 1864–1968. The gauge was by mistake.
1,099 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sweden Template:Interlanguage link[81] 44 Swedish inches[28]
1,100 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Brazil The Santa Teresa Tramway in Rio de Janeiro
Germany Braunschweig tram system; tram systems in Kiel and Lübeck, closed
Italy Former SVIE (Società Varesina per Impresse Electriche) network around Varese, circa 1903–1955
1,106 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Austria Horse-drawn railway from Gmunden in the Salzkammergut to Budweis, now in the Czech Republic; coal railways Thomasroith–Attnang and Breitenschützing–Kohlgrube. 3 Austrian Fuß (ft) 6 Zoll (inch)
1,130 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England London Pneumatic Despatch Company
1,143 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, Saltburn Cliff Lift (until 1921)
1,151 mm 3 ft 9.3150 in Belgium Used on line 59 between 1844 and 1897 when the line was privately operated.[82][83][84]
1,156 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Arcata and Mad River Railroad, Northern Redwood Lumber Company[85]
1,168 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States (Puerto Rico) El Conquistador Resort
1,188 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sweden Engelsberg–Norberg Railway
Indonesia Trams in Jakarta
1,200 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". China Template:Interlanguage link, Chaoyang District, Shantou, China
France Funiculars: Funiculaire du Perce-Neige in Tignes, and Funival at Val-d'Isère
Italy Funiculars: Central Funicular of the Naples Metro, Gardena Ronda Express in Val Gherdëina (South Tyrol)
Switzerland Parsenn funicular at Davos, Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain railway (part of St. Gallen S-Bahn), St. Moritz–Corviglia funicular (lower section only of Script error: No such module "convert". route-length only – upper section is Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauge), Thunersee–Beatenberg funicular in Bern canton
1,217 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sweden Four lines, all converted to standard gauge before 1900, still in use. 1217 mm is based on Swedish feet but compatible with locomotives of Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. See:Narrow-gauge railways in Sweden
1,219 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Furzebrook Railway (c.1830–1957), Redruth and Chasewater Railway 1826–1915,
Bradford Corporation Tramways, Keighley Tramway and a cluster in the NW of England
Isle of Man First Falcon Cliff lift (closed 1896), Port Soderick Cliff Lift, (closed 1939), Douglas Head Funicular Railway (closed 1953)
New Zealand Wellington tramway system: electric trams, closed 1964.
Scotland Falkirk and District Tramways (1905–1936), Glasgow Subway
United States Former tram systems in Canton, Ohio; Honolulu, Hawaii; Laredo, Texas; Pueblo, Colorado; San Antonio, Texas.
Wales Padarn Railway (1842–1961), Saundersfoot Railway (1829–1939)
1,245 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Middleton Railway, converted to standard gauge after 1881
United States Hecla and Torch Lake Railroad[86]
1,270 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Surrey Iron Railway
Wales Merthyr Tramroad, Rumney Railway
1,283 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Saltburn Cliff Lift (from 1922)
1,295 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad, Delaware and Hudson Railway and Haytor Granite Tramway
1,300 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". France Funiculars of Lyon (Lyon, France)
Austria Reisszug (Salzburg, Austria)
1,321 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Mansfield and Pinxton Railway
Wales Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company (Newport and Pontypool Railway)
1,333 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Belvoir Castle tramway[87]
1,350 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Brazil Santos tramways (closed 1971)[88] and later Santos heritage tramways (1984–86 and 2000–present)[89]
1,372 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See 4 ft 6 in gauge railway
1,384 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Scotland various railways in Scotland prior to 1840
<templatestyles src="Template:Visible anchor/styles.css" />4 ft 7 in Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Wales Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway[90]
1,416 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Huddersfield Corporation Tramways
Scotland List of town tramway systems in Scotland
1,422 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Centreville Military Railroad; Green Mountain Cog Railway; Manassas Gap Railroad; Mount Washington Cog Railway
England prior to 1846 (proto standard gauge)
1,429 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Washington Metro

Standard gauge

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Standard gauge is Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauge. It is the most widely-used gauge: about 60% of the world's railway mileage is standard gauge.[91]

Several railways use gauges very close to standard gauge, including:

Gauge Country or Region Notes
Metric Imperial
1,432 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Hong Kong Disneyland Resort line, Island line (excluding West Island line), Kwun Tong line (excluding Kwun Tong line extension), Tseung Kwan O line, Tsuen Wan line, Tung Chung line[92]
Bucharest Bucharest Metro
1,440 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Switzerland St. Moritz–Corviglia funicular (upper section of Script error: No such module "convert". route-length only – lower section is Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauge)

Broad gauge

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File:Hypothetical concept for placement of rails to achieve five collocated track gauges.png
Five collocated track gauges
File:Broad gauge and standard gauge track at Didcot. (6613095905).jpg
Broad-gauge and standard-gauge track at Didcot
Gauge Country or Region Notes
Metric Imperial
 
1,445 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Italy Tramway networks in Milan, Turin and Rome; Orvieto Funicular; railway network until 1930.
Spain Madrid Metro
1,448 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Manchester and Leeds Railway
United States Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad, Strasburg Rail Road (converted to standard gauge).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
1,450 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG, Trams in Dresden
1,458 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Trams in Leipzig
1,473 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States The Midwest, until after the Civil War (Ohio gauge)
1,492 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Canada Toronto Suburban Railway[93] from 1891–1917. Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". until the end at 1931
1,495 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Canada Toronto gauge: Halton County Radial Railway, Toronto streetcar system, and Toronto subway (Lines 1, 2, and 4)[93]
1,520 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Former USSR Also named Russian gauge.
See 5 ft and 1520 mm gauge railways & Confederate railroads in the American Civil War.
1,522 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Finland Helsinki Metro[94]
1,524 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Finland In 1862 the first railway connection in Grand Duchy of Finland were built with five-foot railway gauge,[95] however that gauge was first introduced in United Kingdom.[96]
1,537 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England London and Blackwall Railway 1840–1849, converted to standard gauge
1,575 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Spain Ferrocarril de Langreo
United States Columbus Ohio streetcars[97]
1,581 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA),[98] Philadelphia
1,588 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Pennsylvania trolley gauge[98]
1,600 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway 1840-1854, converted to standard gauge
Ireland See 5 ft 3 in gauge railways.
Australia States of Victoria and South Australia
Brazil States of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais
1,613 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Sacramento Valley Railroad (1852–77)
1,620 mm 5 ft 3 25⁄32 in South Korea U Line
1,638 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Baltimore, Baltimore Streetcar System (defunct)[99] and Baltimore Streetcar Museum (operating)
1,664 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Portugal 5 Portuguese feet
Converted to Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". from 1955[100]
1,668 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". See Iberian gauge.
1,672 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
 Spain 6 Castilian feet
Spanish national rail network Converted to Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". from 1955;[100] The current Barcelona metro line 1 and Cercanías Málaga.
1,676 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". India See 5 ft 6 in gauge railway.
United States Bay Area Rapid Transit (excluding eBART and OAK Airport line); Some lines in New England were built to this gauge including Androscoggin (until 1861), Maine Central (until 1871), Vermont Central (until 1870s), Grand Trunk (until 1877), Buckfield Branch / Portland & Oxford Central (until 1878), European & North American (until 1877), and Bangor & Piscataquis (until 1877).
1,700 mm 5 ft 7 in Script error: No such module "Unsubst". South Korea Busan Metro Line 4, Sillim Line
1,727 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Babbacombe Cliff Railway and Fisherman's Walk Cliff Railway
Script error: No such module "convert". 5 ft 8 <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄2 in United States Gualala River Railroad[101]
1,750 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". France Ligne de Sceaux Paris to Limours via Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, until 1891
1,800 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Germany Oberweißbacher Bergbahn (funicular section only)[102][103]
United States Hogwarts Express (located in Universal Orlando Resort)
1,829 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". India In the 19th century, engineers considered this gauge but finally settled on Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Russia Saint Petersburg – Tsarskoe Selo Railways, 1837–1897
United States Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, Erie Railroad until June 22, 1880, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad March–May 1876, Predominant gauge used by railroads along southern tier of New York State that connected to the pioneering Erie Railroad. Most lines converted to standard gauge 1876–1880, along with the Erie.
1,850 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Canada Falls Incline Railway[104] in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario
1,880 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Ireland Ulster Railway, 1839–1846, re-gauged to Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Taiwan Taipei Metro medium-capacity rubber-tired trains (with Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". rails)
Japan SCMaglev train depots for Chuo Shinkansen.
1,945 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Netherlands Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij, 1839–1866[99] De Arend (locomotive)
1,980 mm / 1,981 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Israel Haifa, Carmelit subway railway line – Funicular
England North Cliff Lift, Scarborough
2,000 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Scotland Cairngorm Mountain Railway – Funicular
2,134 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Original definition of Brunel's broad gauge. This rail gauge was soon changed to Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[105] to ease running in curves.
2,140 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". South Africa East London and Table Bay harbour railways
England Brunel's Great Western Railway until converted to standard gauge by May 1892,
See Great Western Railway The "gauge war". Also, harbour railways at the Isle of Portland and Brixham
Isle of Man Port Erin Breakwater Railway
Portugal (Azores) Ponta Delgada and Horta harbour (using rolling stock from Holyhead harbour)
Wales Holyhead harbour railway
2,286 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England St Nicholas Cliff Lift, Scarborough
2,440 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Johnstown Inclined Plane, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
2,642 mm 8 ft 8 in China Guangzhou Metro APM Line (uses the Bombardier Innovia APM 100)
2,743 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Japan Lake Biwa Canal, an inclined plane near Kyoto
United States Knoxville Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3,000 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nazi Germany See Breitspurbahn.
3,048 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States Fort Pitt Incline, Penn Incline, Monongahela Freight Incline and Castle Shannon Incline, Pittsburgh[106]
3,327 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Scotland Dalzell Iron and Steel Works, Motherwell, Lanarkshire.[107]
5,486 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". England Magnus Volk's Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway[108]
8,200 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Austria Lärchwandschrägaufzug[109]
9,000 mm Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Russia Krasnoyarsk ship lift[110]
File:South Australian Railways triple-gauge change-over trackwork -- from one common rail to NG in middle.jpg
South Australian Railways triple-gauge change-over trackwork, from one common rail to NG in middle

See also

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References

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