Track gauge in Ireland

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Track gauge
By transport mode
  • Miniature
  • Scale model
By size (list)
Graphic list of track gauges
Minimum
  Minimum
  Fifteen inch 381 mm (15 in)
Narrow
 
  • 600 mm
  • 610 mm
  • 686 mm
  • (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in)
  • (2 ft)
  • (2 ft 3 in)
 
  • 750 mm
  • 760 mm
  • 762 mm
  • (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
 
  • 1,445 mm
  • 1,450 mm
  • (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)
 
  • 1,520 mm
  • 1,524 mm
  • (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)
 
  • 1,668 mm
  • 1,676 mm
  • (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 in)
Change of gauge
By location
World map, rail gauge by region

The track gauge adopted by the mainline railways in

Victoria, southern New South Wales (via some extensions of the Victorian rail network) and South Australia, as well as in Brazil
.

The

Launceston and Western Railway in Tasmania also used this gauge from 1871, until conversion to 1,067 mm
(3 ft 6 in) gauge in 1888.

Different gauges

Irish gauge railway at Kilbricken on the Dublin-Cork railway line

standard gauge). The Ulster Railway (UR), taking the Irish Railway Commission's advice, used 1,880 mm (6 ft 2 in). The Dublin and Drogheda Railway was proposed to be built to 1,575 mm (5 ft 2 in) gauge[1] on the grounds of lower costs. The two broader gauges were not used anywhere else. Following complaints from the UR, the Board of Trade investigated the matter, and in 1843 decreed the use of 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in).[2]

This gauge was given legal status by the

Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846,[3]
which specified 4 ft 8.5 in (1.435 m) for Great Britain, 5 ft 3 in for Ireland.

The UR was re-gauged in 1846, at a cost of £19,000 (about £1,957,000 today), and the Dublin and Kingstown Railway in 1857 for £38,000 (about £3,857,000 today).

The

standard gauge
.

Narrow gauge

See also:
List of narrow gauge railways in Ireland

Numerous

Northern Ireland. Bord na Móna uses narrow gauge in the Midlands bogs as part of its peat transport network. There is also a private peat railway on the southern shores of Lough Neagh
in Northern Ireland, operated by the Sunshine Peat Company.

See also

References

  1. ^ Steaming into the Future
  2. ^ Friel, Charles P. "Railways in Craigavon". Journal of Craigavon Historical Society. 2 (2). Archived from the original on 12 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846" (PDF).
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