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Track gauge

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Minimum
Minimum
Fifteen inch	381 mm	(15 in)

Narrow
600 mm Two foot Two foot three inch	600 mm 610 mm 686 mm	(1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) (2 ft) (2 ft 3 in)
750 mm Bosnian gauge Two foot six inch	750 mm 760 mm 762 mm	(2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) (2 ft 6 in)
Swedish three foot 900 mm Three foot Italian metre	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 0 in)
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
Italian broad gauge Dresden gauge	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)
1520 mm Five foot	1,520 mm 1,524 mm	(4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) (5 ft)
Pennsylvania gauge Pennsylvania gauge Five foot three inch	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)
Iberian gauge Five foot six inch	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

A diesel locomotive and flat wagon at Eiswoog Halt on the Stumpfwald Railway in Rhineland-Palatinate.

A list of 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) narrow-gauge railways in Germany.

Germany had extensive 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) installations which were used as a common-carrier railway, industrial, mining, peat, agricultural and hospital railways.

In addition, park and children's railways were constructed.

During both World Wars, extensive military railways were constructed, the so-called trench railways and Heeresfeldbahnen.

Railways

State	Installations
Baden-Württemberg	Feldbahn Rechtenstein [de]; 0.7 km, operating Kinderstraßenbahn Rumpelstilzchen [de]; 0.2 km, operating Torfbahn im Wurzacher Ried [de]; 1.5 km, a peat Feldbahn, operating Schlossgartenbahn Karlsruhe [de]; 2.7 km, a park railway, operating Wiesloch Feldbahn and Industrial Museum; ~1.2 km, open-air museum, operating
Bavaria	Neuhauser Bockerlbahn [de]; 12 km, defunct Reuth–Friedenfels line [de]; 6.6 km, defunct Sandbahn Pleinfeld [de]; 2 km, defunct Spiegelau Forest Railway; 100 km, defunct Zwieselauer Waldbahn; 14.5 km, defunct
Berlin	Berliner Parkeisenbahn; 7.50 km, operating Britzer Museumsbahn [de]; 5.0 km, operating
Brandenburg	Cottbuser Parkeisenbahn [de]; 3.20 km, operating
Hesse	Bad Orber Kleinbahn; former standard-gauge railway, partly relaid as a museum railway Feldbahn, operating Bad Schwalbacher Kurbahn [de]; 1.6 km, operating Bebra narrow gauge railway museum; operating Feld- und Grubenbahnmuseum Fortuna [de]; 2.5 km, operating Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum [de]; 1.5 km, operating Grubenbahnen Messel [de]; 1.5 km, defunct Industriebahn Roßdorf [de]; 4 km, defunct Lindelbachbahn [de]; 4.4 km, defunct Palmen-Express [de]; operating Wächtersbach–Bad Orb line [de]; 6.5 km, operating
Lower Saxony	Burgsittensen Moor Railway; operating Feldbahn Büsenbachtal [de]; 0.9 km, Feldbahn, defunct Feldbahnmuseum Hildesheim [de]; operating Inselbahn Baltrum [de]; 0.6 km, goods traffic from 1949 to 1985, defunct Weetzen–Bredenbecker Kalkwerke [de]; 6.9 km, defunct
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Anklam-Lassaner Kleinbahn [de]; 32.6 km, defunct Mecklenburg-Pommersche Schmalspurbahn [de]; 250 km, defunct Pioniereisenbahn Prerow [de]; 2 km, defunct
North Rhine-Westphalia	Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth; 1.5 km, operating Feldbahn Schermbeck [de]; defunct Feldbahnmuseum Oekoven [de]; 1 km, operating Grugabahn [de]; 3.3 km, operating Kleinbahn im Rheinpark [de]; 2 km, operating Kleinbahn im Westfalenpark [de]; 2.7 km, operating Wallückebahn [de]; 17 km, defunct
Rhineland-Palatinate	Stumpfwald Railway; operating Wasgauwaldbahn [de]; 14.5 km, defunct
Saarland	Parkeisenbahn Saarbrücken [de]; 2 km, operating
Saxony	Görlitzer Oldtimer Parkeisenbahn [de]; a park railway, operating Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz; a park railway, operating Parkeisenbahn Plauen [de]; 1 km, a park railway, operating Sächsisches Schmalspurbahn-Museum Rittersgrün [de]; a park railway, operating Waldeisenbahn Muskau; 50 km, a forest railway, part operating Waldheim–Kriebethal line [de]; regauged to standard gauge, defunct
Saxony-Anhalt	Feldbahn des Sodawerkes Staßfurt [de]; 2 km, operating Parkeisenbahn Peißnitzexpress Halle [de]; operating Pferdebahn Patzetz–Breitenhagen [de]; horse-drawn railway, 11.5 km, defunct Pioniereisenbahn Magdeburg [de]; 2.2 km, defunct Rimpau-Bahn [de]; 7 km, Feldbahn, defunct Strube-Bahn [de]; Feldbahn, a part survives as the Museumsfeldbahn Schlanstedt, operating
Schleswig-Holstein	Buchhorster Waldbahn [de]; 6 km, operating Laboe ammunition depot Feldbahn [de]; 28 km, defunct Halligbahn Lüttmoorsiel–Nordstrandischmoor; 3.5 km, operating Malente-Gremsmühlen–Lütjenburg line [de]; 17 km, converted to standard gauge, operating
Thuringia	Feldbahn Brotterode–Wernshausen [de]; 11.5 km, defunct Parkeisenbahn Gera [de]; 0.8 km, operating Steinbacher Bergwerksbahn [de]; 6 km, defunct

v t e Track gauge (list)
Minimum-gauge Minimum-gauge railways	15 in (381 mm) 400 mm (15+3⁄4 in) 16 in (406 mm) 18 in (457 mm) 19 in (483 mm) 500 mm (19+3⁄4 in) 20 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 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)
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 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
List of track gauge articles	List of track gauges List of tram track gauges Miniature railways Minimum-gauge railways Large amusement railways
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Transport mode	Tram and light rail Rapid transit Miniature Scale model
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