Track gauge
By transport mode |
Tram · Rapid transit
Miniature · Scale model |
By size (list) |
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Minimum |
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Fifteen inch |
381 mm |
(15 in) |
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Narrow |
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600 mm,
Two foot |
597 mm
600 mm
603 mm
610 mm |
(1 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
(1 ft 11 5⁄8 in)
(1 ft 11 3⁄4 in)
(2 ft) |
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750 mm,
Bosnian,
Two foot six inch,
800 mm |
750 mm
760 mm
762 mm
800 mm |
(2 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
(2 ft 5 15⁄16 in)
(2 ft 6 in)
(2 ft 7 1⁄2 in) |
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Swedish three foot,
900 mm,
Three foot |
891 mm
900 mm
914 mm |
(2 ft11 3⁄32 in)
(2 ft 11 7⁄16)
(3 ft) |
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Metre |
1,000 mm |
(3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) |
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Three foot six inch,
Cape, CAP, Kyōki |
1,067 mm |
(3 ft 6 in) |
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Four foot six inch |
1,372 mm |
(4 ft 6 in) |
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Standard |
1,435 mm |
(4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) |
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Broad |
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Russian,
Five foot |
1,520 mm
1,524 mm |
(4 ft 11 27⁄32 in)
(5 ft) |
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Irish |
1,600 mm |
(5 ft 3 in) |
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Iberian |
1,668 mm |
(5 ft 5 21⁄32 in) |
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Indian |
1,676 mm |
(5 ft 6 in) |
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Six foot |
1,829 mm |
(6 ft) |
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Brunel |
2,140 mm |
(7 ft 1⁄4 in) |
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Change of gauge |
Break-of-gauge · Dual gauge ·
Conversion (list) · Bogie exchange · Variable gauge |
By location |
North America · South America · Europe |
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800mm gauge railways are narrow gauge railways built to a track gauge of 800 mm (2 ft 7 1⁄2 in).
Whilst this gauge is uncommon amongst adhesion railways, some of the world's best known rack railways are built to it. Six of these are in Switzerland, including the world's steepest rack line (the Pilatus Railway) and the world's longest pure rack line (the Wengernalp Railway), whilst the United Kingdom's only rack railway (the Snowdon Mountain Railway) is also to this gauge. A few funicular railways are also built to this gauge.[1][2][3][4]
Installations
See also
References
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Minimum-gauge
Minimum-gauge railways |
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Narrow gauge |
- 2 foot and 600 mm
- 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
- 760 mm (2 ft 5 15⁄16 in)
- 2 ft 6 in (762 mm)
- 800 mm (2 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
- 891 mm (2 ft 11 3⁄32 in) Swedish three foot
- 900 mm (2 ft 11 7⁄16 in)
- 3 ft (914 mm)
- 950 mm (3 ft 1 3⁄8 in) Italian metre gauge
- 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge
- 1,050 mm (3 ft 5 11⁄32 in),
- 1,055 mm (3 ft 5 1⁄2 in),
- 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
- 1,093 mm (3 ft 7 in),
- 1,100 mm (3 ft 7 5⁄16 in),
- 1,200 mm (3 ft 11 1⁄4 in)
- 4 ft (1,219 mm)
- 4 ft 1 in (1,245 mm), Middleton Railway
- 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm), Scotch gauge
- 4 ft 6 1⁄2 in (1,384 mm), Scotch gauge
- 4 ft 7 3⁄4 in (1,416 mm)
- 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm), almost standard gauge
- 4 ft 8 1⁄4 in (1,429 mm)
- 1,432 mm (4 ft 8 3⁄8 in)
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Standard gauge |
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Broad gauge |
- 1,440 mm (4 ft 8 11⁄16 in)
- 1,445 mm (4 ft 8 7⁄8 in)
- 1,450 mm (4 ft 9 3⁄32 in)
- 4ft9.375in
- 1,458 mm (4 ft 9 13⁄32 in)
- 4 ft 10 7⁄8 in (1,495 mm), Toronto gauge
- 5 ft/1,524 mm and 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in), Russian gauge.
- 5 ft 2 1⁄4 in/1,581 mm and 5 ft 2 1⁄2 in/1,588 mm, Pennsylvania gauge
- 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm), Irish gauge
- 5 ft 4 1⁄2 in (1,638 mm), Baltimore gauge
- 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 21⁄32 in), Iberian gauge
- 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm), Indian gauge
- 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm), Brunel gauge
- 3,000 mm (9 ft 10 1⁄8 in), Breitspurbahn
- 8,200 mm (26 ft 10 27⁄32 in), Lärchwandschrägaufzug
- 9,000 mm (29 ft 6 5⁄16 in), Krasnoyarsk ship lift
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List of track gauge articles |
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Gauge differences |
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