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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.
Track gauges by size
Minimum and ridable miniature railways
Main articles: Minimum gauge railway and Ridable miniature railway
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.
Narrow gauge
Main article: Narrow gauge railway
Railways with a track gauge between 500 mm (19 3⁄4 in) and 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) .
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 | ||
France | Several Decauville portable railways, Chemin de Fer Touristique du Tarn, Petit train d'Artouste | ||
508 mm | 20 in | England | Great Woburn Railway situated in Woburn Safari Park; and North Bay Railway near Scarborough |
United States | Confusion Hill | ||
520 mm | 20 15⁄32 in | Germany | Several railways. Origine: from 1' 8" preußische Zoll = 523,2 mm.[7] |
533 mm | 21 in | England | Pleasure Beach Express |
550 mm | 21 21⁄32 in | 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[8] |
575 mm | 22 5⁄8 in | Germany | Iron ore mine railways in Bad Ems and Ramsbeck[9] |
578 mm | 1 ft 10 3⁄4 in | United States | Lakeside Amusement Park |
Wales | Penrhyn Quarry Railway | ||
580 mm | 22 27⁄32 in | Austria | Wolfsegg Traunthaler Kohlenwerke in Ampflwang im Hausruckwald[10] |
597 mm | 1 ft 11 1⁄2 in | See 2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways | |
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 |
622 mm | 2 ft 1⁄2 in | Wales | Penrhyn Quarry Railway, until 1879 |
630 mm | 24 13⁄16 in | Germany | Brickworks in Zehdenick[11] |
655 mm | 2 ft 1 25⁄32 in | Germany | Schlebusch-Harkorter Coal Railway[12] |
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 | ||
686 mm | 2 ft 3 in | See 2 ft 3 in gauge railways | |
693 mm | 2 ft 3 9⁄32 in | Sweden | 28 Swedish inches.[13] Several railways. |
700 mm | 2 ft 3 9⁄16 in | Denmark | Standard gauge for sugar beet railways; none remain. |
England | Biwater Pipes and Castings[14] | ||
France | Chemin de fer d'Abreschviller | ||
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 3 9⁄16 in | England | Snailbeach District Railways |
716 mm | 2 ft 4 3⁄16 in | Poland | Dobre Aleksandrowskie – Kruszwica railway[15] (operating tourist railway) |
724 mm | 2 ft 4 1⁄2 in | Wales | Guest Keen Baldwins Iron and Steel Company Ltd.: Briton Ferry Steelworks,[16] Glyn Valley Tramway |
737 mm | 2 ft 5 in | England | St. Michael's Mount Tramway[17] |
740 mm | 2 ft 5 1⁄8 in | Luxembourg | Minière et Métallurgique de Rodange mine railway[18] |
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 | |
762 mm | 2 ft 6 in | Horse-drawn tram Willemstad, Curaçao nl:Curaçaose tram | |
765 mm | 2 ft 6 1⁄8 in | DR Congo | Matadi–Kinshasa Railway, converted to 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) 1925–1931.[19] |
775 mm | 2 ft 6 1⁄2 in | England | Jee's Hartshill Granite Quarry[20] |
Germany | Bombergbahn, a funicular a funicular in Bad Pyrmont | ||
785 mm | 2 ft 6 29⁄32 in | Germany | Origin: 2 1⁄2 Prussian feet Bröl Valley Railway |
Poland | Silesian Interurbans, Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge Railways | ||
791 mm | 2 ft 7 5⁄32 in | Denmark | Faxe Jernbane in southern Zealand |
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[21] |
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 | Hankai Railway |
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[22] |
876 mm | 2 ft 10 1⁄2 in | England | Biwater Pipes and Castings[23] Cattybrook Brickworks railway[3] |
880 mm | 2 ft 10 21⁄32 in | Germany | Bayerisches Moor- und Torfmuseum,[24] Peat museum (operating) |
Norway | Industrial railway in Stokke | ||
889 mm | 2 ft 11 in | England | Miller Engineering & Construction Ltd. Sandiacre depot[25] |
Germany | Schlebusch-Harkorter Coal Railway[12] | ||
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 | |
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[21] |
946 mm | 3 ft 1 1⁄4 in | Austria | Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2,[26] a funicular partly inside a tunnel. |
950 mm | 3 ft 1 3⁄8 in | Italy | Cagliari light rail, Circumvesuviana, Dolomites Railway, Ferrovia Circumetnea, Ferrovie della Sardegna, Metrosassari, Rome–Giardinetti railway, Rome–Fiuggi railway |
Eritrea | Eritrean 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 and Keeling Coal Company | ||
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 | |
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, Wildlife Express Train (located in Disney's Animal Kingdom) | ||
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[27] 44 Swedish inches[13] |
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 | From Gmunden in the Salzkammergut to Budweis, now in the Czech Republic. |
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 |
1,156 mm | 3 ft 9 1⁄2 in | United States | Arcata and Mad River Railroad |
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 |
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 route-length only - upper section is 1,440 mm 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 City Tramway, Keighley Tramway and a cluster in the NW of England |
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 |
1,270 mm | 4 ft 2 in | England | Surrey Iron Railway |
Wales | Merthyr Tramroad, Rumney Railway | ||
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[28] |
1,350 mm | 4 ft 5 5⁄32 in | Brazil | Santos tramways (closed 1971)[29] and later Santos heritage tramways (1984–86 and 2000–present)[30] |
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[31] |
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 |
Standard gauge: 1,435 mm / 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in
Main article: Standard gauge
Gauge | Country | Notes | |
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Metric | Imperial | ||
1,432 mm[32] | 4 ft 8 3⁄8 in | Hong Kong | Disneyland Resort Line, Island Line (including West Island Line), Kwun Tong Line (including Kwun Tong Line Extension), Tseung Kwan O Line, Tsuen Wan Line, Tung Chung Line |
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 |
1,440 mm | 4 ft 8 11⁄16 in | Switzerland | St. Moritz–Corviglia funicular (upper section of 1,616 metres route-length only - lower section is 1,200 mm gauge) |
Broad gauge
Main article: Broad gauge
Gauge | Country | 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 | ||
1,450 mm | 4 ft 9 3⁄32 in | Germany | Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG |
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[33] 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 Transit Commission (TTC)[33] |
1,520 mm | 4 ft 11 27⁄32 in | Also named Russian gauge. See 5 ft and 1520 mm gauge railways | |
1,524 mm | 5 ft | ||
1,537 mm | 5 ft 1⁄2 in | England | London and Blackwall Railway 1840-49, converted to standard gauge |
1,575 mm | 5 ft 2 in | Spain | Ferrocarril de Langreo |
United States | Columbus Ohio streetcar[34] | ||
1,581 mm | 5 ft 2 1⁄4 in | United States | Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA),[35] Philadelphia |
1,588 mm | 5 ft 2 1⁄2 in | United States | Pennsylvania trolley gauge[35] |
1,600 mm | 5 ft 3 in | See Irish gauge | |
1,613 mm | 5 ft 3 1⁄2 in | United States | Sacramento Valley Railroad (1852–77) |
1,638 mm | 5 ft 4 1⁄2 in | United States | Baltimore, Baltimore Streetcar System (defunct)[36] 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[37] |
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;[37] The current Barcelona metro line 1 and Cercanías Málaga. |
1,676 mm | 5 ft 6 in | Also named Indian gauge | |
1,727 mm | 5 ft 8 in | England | Babbacombe Cliff Railway and Fisherman's Walk Cliff Railway |
1,750 mm[38] | 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)[39][40] |
United States | Hogwarts Express (located in Universal Orlando Resort) | ||
1,829 mm | 6 ft | India | In the 19th century, engineers considered this gauge but used 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) |
Russia | Saint Petersburg - Tsarskoe Selo Railway, 1837–1897, Proposed for the TKM World Link (Yakutsk - Fort Nelson) and onward to most of the North American destinations and some part of the Siberian destinations. | ||
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[41] 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[36] |
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)[42] 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) | ||
Russia | Proposed for the Moscow-Kaliningrad route (almost parallel with 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) tracks) and onward to some other destinations, eventually as far to Great Britain, France, Central Asia and North America. | ||
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 |
2,503 mm | 8 ft 2 1⁄2 in | Netherlands and other | Recently proposed some of the transcontinental lines such as links from the Netherlands to North America. |
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 and Monongahela Freight Incline, both in Pittsburgh |
3,327 mm | 10 ft 11 in | Scotland | Dalzell Iron and Steel Works, Motherwell, Lanarkshire.[43] |
5,500 mm | 18 ft | England | Magnus Volk's Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway[44] |
8,200 mm | 26 ft 10 27⁄32 in | Austria | Lärchwandschrägaufzug[45] |
9,000 mm | 29 ft 6 5⁄16 in | Russia | The electric "ship elevator" at the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam[46] |
See also
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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.
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(help) - ↑ Boat lift Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station on the Yen
External links
- Jane's World Railways
- "Railroad Gauge Width". Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. site
- The Indian Railways FAQ: Gauges
- Extensive list of 2 ft gauge railways worldwide
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