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This list presents an overview of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails.
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.
Railways with a track gauge between 500 mm (19+3⁄4 in) and 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge.
Gauge | Country | Notes | |
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Metric | Imperial | ||
500 mm | 19+3⁄4 in | 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 | 20 in | England | Great Woburn Railway situated in Woburn Safari Park; and North Bay Railway near Scarborough |
United States | Confusion Hill | ||
Russia | Krasnoyarsk Child Railway | ||
520 mm | 20+15⁄32 in | Germany | Several mine railways. Origine: from 1 ft 8 in preußische Zoll = 523,2 mm. [22] |
533 mm | 21 in | England | Pleasure Beach Express |
550 mm | 21+21⁄32 in | Denmark | Mønsted Kalkgruber, in a former limestone quarry, railway is preserved. Narrow-gauge railways in Europe |
Germany | Mine railways in Mayen | ||
557 mm | 21+15⁄16 in | Dominican Republic | Transport in the Dominican Republic |
560 mm | 22+1⁄16 in | Germany | Salt mine railway in Berchtesgaden [23] |
575 mm | 22+5⁄8 in | Germany | Iron ore mine railways in Bad Ems and Ramsbeck [24] |
578 mm | 1 ft 10+3⁄4 in | United States | Lakeside Amusement Park & San Francisco Zoo |
Wales | Penrhyn Quarry Railway | ||
580 mm | 22+27⁄32 in | Austria | Wolfsegg Traunthaler Kohlenwerke in Ampflwang im Hausruckwald [25] |
Hungary | Mining railways in Dorog (defunct) | ||
597 mm | 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in | 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 | 1 ft 11+5⁄8 in | ||
603 mm | 1 ft 11+3⁄4 in | ||
610 mm | 2 ft | ||
620 mm | 2 ft 13⁄32 in | Slovenia | Cave railway in the Postojna Cave [26] |
622 mm | 2 ft 1⁄2 in | Wales | Penrhyn Quarry Railway, until 1879 |
630 mm | 24+13⁄16 in | Germany | Brickworks in Zehdenick [27] |
655 mm | 2 ft 1+25⁄32 in | Germany | Schlebusch-Harkorter Coal Railway[ citation needed ] |
660 mm | 2 ft 2 in | Germany | Industrial and mine railways in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate |
Japan | Yamanashi horse-drawn tramway | ||
Wales | Cwt y Bugail quarry | ||
682 mm | 2+27⁄32 in | Denmark | See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark |
686 mm | 2 ft 3 in | See List of 2 ft 3 in gauge railways | |
693 mm | 2 ft 3+9⁄32 in | Sweden | 28 Swedish inches. [28] Several railways. |
700 mm | 2 ft 3+9⁄16 in | 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 preserved dk . [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41]
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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 | 2 ft 4 in | England | Snailbeach District Railways |
716 mm | 2 ft 4+3⁄16 in | Poland | Dobre Aleksandrowskie – Kruszwica railway [66] (operating tourist railway) |
724 mm | 2 ft 4+1⁄2 in | Wales | Guest Keen Baldwins Iron and Steel Company Ltd.: Briton Ferry Steelworks, [67] Glyn Valley Tramway |
737 mm | 2 ft 5 in | England | St. Michael's Mount Tramway [68] |
740 mm | 2 ft 5+1⁄8 in | Luxembourg | Minière et Métallurgique de Rodange mine railway [69] |
750 mm | 2 ft 5+1⁄2 in | See 750 mm gauge railways | |
760 mm | 2 ft 5+15⁄16 in | Bulgaria | Origin: 1⁄2 Austrian fathom See Bosnian gauge |
762 mm | 2 ft 6 in | See 2 ft 6 in gauge railways | |
765 mm | 3 ft 6 in | DR Congo | Matadi–Kinshasa Railway, converted to 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) 1925–1931. [70] |
Denmark | See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark | ||
775 mm | 2 ft 6+1⁄2 in | England | Jee's Hartshill Granite Quarry [71] |
Germany | Bombergbahn , a funicular a funicular in Bad Pyrmont | ||
785 mm | 2 ft 6+29⁄32 in | Denmark | See Narrow-gauge railways in Europe and Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark. Hjerl Hede museum (Frilandsmuseum) peat railway is preserved, 785 mm 2 ft 6+29⁄32 in and 791 mm 2 ft 7+5⁄32 in gauges are both used on this railway. [72] |
Germany | Origin: 2+1⁄2 Prussian feet Bröl Valley Railway | ||
Poland | wSilesian Interurbans, Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge Railways | ||
791 mm | 2 ft 7+5⁄32 in | Denmark | See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark and Narrow-gauge railways in Europe. Faxe Jernbane in southern Zealand, 791 mm 2 ft 7+5⁄32 in and 785 mm 2 ft 6+29⁄32 in, 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 railway dk . [73] [74] |
800 mm | 2 ft 7+1⁄2 in | See 800 mm gauge railways | |
802 mm | 2 ft 7+9⁄16 in | Sweden | Far behind 891 mm (2 ft 11+3⁄32 in), one of the most common narrow gauges in Sweden, for example the Hällefors-Fredriksberg Railways (1874–1970) in Värmland. Never formed much of a network, none remain. |
813 mm | 2 ft 8 in | England | Winnal Gasworks Railway [75] |
Wales | Rhosydd Quarry, a counterbalance weight for a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) gauge incline; | ||
820 mm | 2 ft 8+9⁄32 in | Germany | Prince William Railway Company, Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr railway, converted to standard gauge. |
825 mm | 2 ft 8+1⁄2 in | England | Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway (a vehicle that ran on two parallel 2 ft 8+1⁄2 in (825 mm) gauge tracks, billed as 18 ft (5.5 m) gauge), Furzebrook Railway and Volk's Electric Railway |
838 mm | 2 ft 9 in | 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 | 2 ft 9+15⁄32 in | Italy | Ponte Tresa-Luino (1924: converted to 1,100 mm (3 ft 7+5⁄16 in) gauge, 1950: closed) Menaggio–Porlezza railway (1939: closed) |
860 mm | 2 ft 9+7⁄8 in | Germany | Alsen´sche Portland-Cementfabrik KG in Itzehoe [76] |
876 mm | 2 ft 10+1⁄2 in | England | Biwater Pipes and Castings [77] Cattybrook Brickworks railway [18] |
880 mm | 2 ft 10+21⁄32 in | Germany | Bayerisches Moor- und Torfmuseum, [78] Peat museum (operating) |
Norway | Industrial railway in Stokke | ||
889 mm | 2 ft 11 in | England | Miller Engineering & Construction Ltd. Sandiacre depot [79] |
Germany | Schlebusch-Harkorter Coal Railway[ citation needed ] | ||
891 mm | 2 ft 11+3⁄32 in | Sweden | 3 Swedish feet |
900 mm | 2 ft 11+7⁄16 in | See 900 mm gauge railways | |
914 mm | 3 ft | See 3 ft gauge railways 3 ft gauge railways in the United Kingdom | |
925 mm | 3 ft 13⁄32 in | Germany | Trams in Chemnitz, since in 1914 |
943 mm | 3 ft 1+1⁄8 in | England | Central Electricity Generating Board Fawley Tunnel [75] |
946 mm | 3 ft 1+1⁄4 in | Austria | Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2, [80] a funicular partly inside a tunnel. |
950 mm | 3 ft 1+3⁄8 in | 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 | 3 ft 1+19⁄32 in | Switzerland | Polybahn funicular |
965 mm | 3 ft 2 in | 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 | 3 ft 2+1⁄4 in | England | Betchworth Quarry Railways |
985 mm | 3 ft 2+25⁄32 in | Switzerland | Zugerbergbahn funicular |
1,000 mm | 3 ft 3+3⁄8 in | See metre-gauge railway | |
1,009 mm | 3 ft 3+23⁄32 in | Bulgaria | Sofia Tramway |
1,016 mm | 3 ft 4 in | 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 | 3 ft 4+1⁄2 in | England | Herne Bay Pier Railway |
1,035 mm | 3 ft 4+3⁄4 in | England | Lake Lock Rail Road |
1,040 mm | 3 ft 5 in | Austria | Festungsbahn (Salzburg) |
1,050 mm | 3 ft 5+11⁄32 in | 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 | 3 ft 5+1⁄2 in | Algeria | National Company for Rail Transport |
1,067 mm | 3 ft 6 in | See 3 ft 6 in gauge railways | |
1,093 mm | 3 ft 7 in | 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 | 3 ft 7+1⁄4 in | Sweden | Christinehamn - Sjöändans järnväg [81] 44 Swedish inches [28] |
1,100 mm | 3 ft 7+5⁄16 in | 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 | 3 ft 7+1⁄2 in | 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 | 3 ft 8+1⁄2 in | England | London Pneumatic Despatch Company |
1,143 mm | 3 ft 9 in | 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 | 3 ft 9+1⁄2 in | United States | Arcata and Mad River Railroad, Northern Redwood Lumber Company [85] |
1,168 mm | 3 ft 10 in | United States (Puerto Rico) | El Conquistador Resort |
1,188 mm | 3 ft 10+25⁄32 in | Sweden | Engelsberg–Norberg Railway |
Indonesia | Trams in Jakarta | ||
1,200 mm | 3 ft 11+1⁄4 in | China | Chaoyang Commuter Rail , 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 436 metres (1,430 ft ) route-length only - upper section is 1,440 mm (4 ft 8+11⁄16 in) gauge), Thunersee–Beatenberg funicular in Bern canton | ||
1,217 mm | 3 ft 11+29⁄32 in | 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 1,219 mm ( 4 ft ). See:Narrow gauge railways in Sweden |
1,219 mm | 4 ft | 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 | 4 ft 1 in | England | Middleton Railway, converted to standard gauge after 1881 |
United States | Hecla and Torch Lake Railroad [86] | ||
1,270 mm | 4 ft 2 in | England | Surrey Iron Railway |
Wales | Merthyr Tramroad, Rumney Railway | ||
1,283 mm | 4 ft 2+1⁄2 in | England | Saltburn Cliff Lift (from 1922) |
1,295 mm | 4 ft 3 in | United States | Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad, Delaware and Hudson Railway and Haytor Granite Tramway |
1,300 mm | 4 ft 3+3⁄16 in | France | Funiculars of Lyon (Lyon, France) |
Austria | Reisszug (Salzburg, Austria) | ||
1,321 mm | 4 ft 4 in | England | Mansfield and Pinxton Railway |
Wales | Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company (Newport and Pontypool Railway) | ||
1,333 mm | 4 ft 4+1⁄2 in | England | Belvoir Castle tramway [87] |
1,350 mm | 4 ft 5+5⁄32 in | Brazil | Santos tramways (closed 1971) [88] and later Santos heritage tramways (1984–86 and 2000–present) [89] |
1,372 mm | 4 ft 6 in | See 4 ft 6 in gauge railway | |
1,384 mm | 4 ft 6+1⁄2 in | Scotland | various railways in Scotland prior to 1840 |
1,397 mm | 4 ft 7 in | Wales | Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway [90] |
1,416 mm | 4 ft 7+3⁄4 in | England | Huddersfield Corporation Tramways |
Scotland | List of town tramway systems in Scotland | ||
1,422 mm | 4 ft 8 in | 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 | 4 ft 8+1⁄4 in | United States | Washington Metro |
Gauge | Country or Region | Notes | |
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Metric | Imperial | ||
1,432 mm | 4 ft 8+3⁄8 in | 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 [91] |
Bucharest | Bucharest Metro | ||
1,435 mm | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in | See Category:Standard gauge railways | Standard gauge is defined both in metric and in imperial units. It is the most widely-used gauge worldwide, ab out 60% of the world uses this track. [92] |
1,440 mm | 4 ft 8+11⁄16 in | Switzerland | St. Moritz–Corviglia funicular (upper section of 1,616 metres or 5,302 feet route-length only - lower section is 1,200 mm (3 ft 11+1⁄4 in) gauge) |
Gauge | Country or Region | Notes | |
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Metric | Imperial | ||
1,445 mm | 4 ft 8+7⁄8 in | Italy | Tramway networks in Milan, Turin and Rome; Orvieto Funicular; railway network until 1930. |
Spain | Madrid Metro | ||
1,448 mm | 4 ft 9 in | England | Manchester and Leeds Railway |
United States | Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad, Strasburg Rail Road (converted to standard gauge).[ citation needed ] | ||
1,450 mm | 4 ft 9+3⁄32 in | Germany | Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG, Trams in Dresden |
1,458 mm | 4 ft 9+13⁄32 in | Germany | Trams in Leipzig |
1,473 mm | 4 ft 10 in | United States | The Midwest, until after the Civil War (Ohio gauge) |
1,492 mm | 4 ft 10+3⁄4 in | Canada | Toronto Suburban Railway [93] from 1891–1917. 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) until the end at 1931 |
1,495 mm | 4 ft 10+7⁄8 in | Canada | Toronto gauge: Halton County Radial Railway, Toronto streetcar system, and Toronto subway (Lines 1, 2, and 4) [93] |
1,520 mm | 4 ft 11+27⁄32 in | Former USSR | Also named Russian gauge. See 5 ft and 1520 mm gauge railways & Confederate railroads in the American Civil War |
1,522 mm | 4 ft 11+29⁄32 in | Finland | Helsinki Metro [94] |
1,524 mm | 5 ft | 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 | 5 ft 1⁄2 in | England | London and Blackwall Railway 1840–1849, converted to standard gauge |
1,575 mm | 5 ft 2 in | Spain | Ferrocarril de Langreo |
United States | Columbus Ohio streetcars [97] | ||
1,581 mm | 5 ft 2+1⁄4 in | United States | Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), [98] Philadelphia |
1,588 mm | 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in | United States | Pennsylvania trolley gauge [98] |
1,600 mm | 5 ft 3 in | 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 | 5 ft 3+1⁄2 in | United States | Sacramento Valley Railroad (1852–77) |
1,620 mm | 1,620 mm (5 ft 3+25⁄32 in) | South Korea | U Line |
1,638 mm | 5 ft 4+1⁄2 in | United States | Baltimore, Baltimore Streetcar System (defunct) [99] and Baltimore Streetcar Museum (operating) |
1,664 mm | 5 ft 5+1⁄2 in | Portugal | 5 Portuguese feet Converted to 1,668 mm from 1955 [100] |
1,668 mm | 5 ft 5+21⁄32 in | See Iberian gauge | |
1,672 mm | 5 ft 5+13⁄16 in | Spain | 6 Castilian feet Spanish national rail network Converted to 1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in) Iberian gauge from 1955; [100] The current Barcelona metro line 1 and Cercanías Málaga. |
1,676 mm | 5 ft 6 in | 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 [ citation needed ] | South Korea | Busan Metro Line 4, Sillim Line |
1,727 mm | 5 ft 8 in | England | Babbacombe Cliff Railway and Fisherman's Walk Cliff Railway |
1,740 mm | 5 ft 8 1⁄2 in | United States | Gualala River Railroad [101] |
1,750 mm | 5 ft 8+7⁄8 in | France | Ligne de Sceaux Paris to Limours via Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, until 1891 |
1,800 mm | 5 ft 10+7⁄8 in | Germany | Oberweißbacher Bergbahn (funicular section only) [102] [103] |
United States | Hogwarts Express (located in Universal Orlando Resort) | ||
1,829 mm | 6 ft | India | In the 19th century, engineers considered this gauge but finally settled on 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) |
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 | 6 ft 27⁄32 in | Canada | Falls Incline Railway [104] in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario |
1,880 mm | 6 ft 2 in | Ireland | Ulster Railway, 1839–1846, re-gauged to 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) |
Taiwan | Taipei Metro medium-capacity rubber-tired trains (with 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) rails) | ||
Japan | SCMaglev train depots for Chuo Shinkansen. | ||
1,945 mm | 6 ft 4+9⁄16 in | Netherlands | Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij, 1839–1866 [99] De Arend (locomotive) |
1,980 mm / 1,981 mm | 6 ft 6 in | Israel | Haifa, Carmelit subway railway line - Funicular |
England | North Cliff Lift, Scarborough | ||
2,000 mm | 6 ft 6+3⁄4 in | Scotland | Cairngorm Mountain Railway - Funicular |
2,134 mm | 7 ft | England | Original definition of Brunel's broad gauge. This rail gauge was soon changed to 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) [105] to ease running in curves. |
2,140 mm | 7 ft 1⁄4 in | 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 | 7 ft 6 in | England | St Nicholas Cliff Lift, Scarborough |
2,440 mm | 8 ft | 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 | 9 ft | Japan | Lake Biwa Canal, an inclined plane near Kyoto |
United States | Knoxville Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||
3,000 mm | 9 ft 10+1⁄8 in | Nazi Germany | See Breitspurbahn |
3,048 mm | 10 ft | United States | Fort Pitt Incline, Penn Incline, Monongahela Freight Incline and Castle Shannon Incline, Pittsburgh [106] |
3,327 mm | 10 ft 11 in | Scotland | Dalzell Iron and Steel Works, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. [107] |
5,486 mm | 18 ft | England | Magnus Volk's Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway [108] |
8,200 mm | 26 ft 10+27⁄32 in | Austria | Lärchwandschrägaufzug [109] |
9,000 mm | 29 ft 6+5⁄16 in | Russia | Krasnoyarsk ship lift [110] |
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The first high-speed railway in Denmark was the Copenhagen–Ringsted Line, completed in late 2018 and opened in 2019. Further high-speed lines are currently under planning.
Denmark made extensive use of narrow-gauge railways using a wide variety of gauges.
Two foot and 600 mm gauge railways are narrow gauge railways with track gauges of 2 ft and 600 mm, respectively. Railways with similar, less common track gauges, such as 1 ft 11+3⁄4 in and 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in, are grouped with 2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways.
Jerup railway station is a railway station serving the village of Jerup in Vendsyssel, Denmark.
The Holbæk Line is a 49.4 km (30.7 mi) long standard gauge single track local passenger railway line linking Holbæk with the town of Nykøbing Sjælland in the northwestern part of the island of Zealand some fifty km west of Copenhagen, Denmark. It takes its name after the Odsherred peninsula. Train services on the Odsherred Line are operated by the railway company Lokaltog.
The Tølløse Line (previously Høng-Tølløse Jernbane is a 50.8 km long standard gauge single track local passenger railway line between Tølløse and Slagelse in the western part of the island of Zealand, Denmark. It runs from Tølløse station on the Northwest Line to Slagelse station on the Copenhagen–Fredericia/Taulov Line, through a mainly rural area.
Ryomgård is a Danish country town with a population of 2,729 located 29 kilometers north east of to the country’s second largest city Aarhus. As such Ryomgård is in part a pendler town to Aarhus.
Vestbirk is a village in Horsens Municipality, Denmark. The area is characterized by the Gudenå river and its lakes which are popular destinations for local fishermen and tourists. The village of Vestbirk was originally formed as a farming community, and its population has been in decline.
The work on laying tracks, which were 1,534 metres in length and had a track gauge of 620 mm, started in March 1872
In laying the rails an extra quarter of an inch was allowed on the straight, making the gauge 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm), strictly speaking, but it was always referred to as 7 feet.