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Railway track gauge (914 mm)
Track gauge
By transport mode
By size (list )
Minimum
Minimum
Fifteen inch
381 mm
(15 in)
Narrow
(1 ft 11+ 5 ⁄8 in) (2 ft) (2 ft 3 in)
(2 ft 5+ 1 ⁄2 in) (2 ft 5+ 15 ⁄16 in) (2 ft 6 in)
891 mm 900 mm 914 mm 950 mm
(2 ft 11+ 3 ⁄32 in) (2 ft 11+ 7 ⁄16 in) (3 ft) (3 ft1+ 13 ⁄32 in)
Metre
1,000 mm
(3 ft 3+ 3 ⁄8 in)
Three foot six inch
1,067 mm
(3 ft 6 in)
Four foot
1,219 mm
(4 ft)
Four foot six inch
1,372 mm
(4 ft 6 in)
1432 mm
1,432 mm
(4 ft 8+ 3 ⁄8 in)
Standard 1,435 mm
(4 ft 8+ 1 ⁄2 in)
Broad
(4 ft 8+ 7 ⁄8 in) (4 ft 9+ 3 ⁄32 in)
Leipzig gauge
1,458 mm
(4 ft 9+ 13 ⁄32 in)
Toronto gauge
1,495 mm
(4 ft 10+ 7 ⁄8 in)
(4 ft 11+ 27 ⁄32 in) (5 ft)
1,581 mm 1,588 mm 1,600 mm
(5 ft 2+ 1 ⁄4 in) (5 ft 2+ 1 ⁄2 in) (5 ft 3 in)
Baltimore gauge
1,638 mm
(5 ft 4+ 1 ⁄2 in)
(5 ft 5+ 21 ⁄32 in) (5 ft 6 in)
Six foot
1,829 mm
(6 ft)
Brunel
2,140 mm
(7 ft 1 ⁄4
Change of gauge
By location
Fintown station on the trackbed of the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee (CDR) in County Donegal A bridge of the defunct National Railroad of Mexico in 1883 A railbus on the Ferrocarril Santa Ana near Machu Picchu Majorca
Three foot gauge railways have a
Ireland, many secondary and
industrial lines were built to
3 ft gauge, and it is the dominant gauge on the
Isle of Man , where it is known as the
Manx Standard Gauge . Modern
3 ft gauge railways are most commonly found in isolated mountainous areas, on small islands, or in large-scale
amusement parks and theme parks (see table below). This gauge is also popular in
model railroading (particularly in
G scale ), and model prototypes of these railways have been made by several model train brands around the world, such as Accucraft Trains (US), Aristo-Craft Trains (US),
Bachmann Industries (Hong Kong) , Delton Locomotive Works (US),
LGB (Germany) ,
[1] and
PIKO (Germany) .
Railways See also References
Minimum-gauge Minimum-gauge railways
15 in 381 mm )400 mm
(15+ 3 ⁄4 in16 in
(406 mm )18 in
(457 mm )19 in
(483 mm )500 mm
(19+ 3 ⁄4 in20 in (508 mm )21 in (533 mm )1 ft 10 in (559 mm ) 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 gauge4 ft 6+ 1 ⁄2 in 1,384 mm ), Scotch gauge4 ft 7+ 3 ⁄4 in 1,416 mm )4 ft 8 in 1,422 mm ), almost standard gauge4 ft 8+ 1 ⁄4 in 1,429 mm )1,432 mm 4 ft 8+ 3 ⁄8 in ) Standard gauge
4 ft 8+ 1 ⁄2 in
/ 1,435 mm , Stephenson gauge 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 )4 ft 9+ 3 ⁄8 in 1,457 mm )1,458 mm 4 ft 9+ 13 ⁄32 in )4 ft 10+ 7 ⁄8 in 1,495 mm ), Toronto gauge5 ft / 1,524 mm and 1,520 mm 4 ft 11+ 27 ⁄32 in ), Russian gauge.5 ft 2+ 1 ⁄2 in
/ 1,588 mm , Pennsylvania gauge5 ft 3 in 1,600 mm ), Irish gauge5 ft 4+ 1 ⁄2 in
(1,638 mm ), Baltimore gauge1,668 mm
(5 ft 5+ 21 ⁄32 in ), Iberian gauge5 ft 6 in 1,676 mm ), Indian gauge7 ft 1 ⁄4
(2,140 mm ), Brunel gauge3,000 mm 9 ft 10+ 1 ⁄8 in ), Breitspurbahn8,200 mm (26 ft 10+ 27 ⁄32 in ), Lärchwandschrägaufzug 9,000 mm (29 ft 6+ 5 ⁄16 in ), Krasnoyarsk ship lift List of track gauge articles Gauge differences Transport mode Categories
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