A number of narrow-gauge lines survive, largely as a consequence of German reunification, in the former East Germany where some of them form part of the...
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standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) and 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in). Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with...
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(2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) gauge railway in Bulgaria. Some industrial narrow-gauge railways and a children's railway can still be found in Belarus particularly...
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Narrow Gauge Railways (German: Harzer Schmalspurbahnen or HSB) is a railway company that operates a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge network in the...
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The narrow-gauge railways in Saxony were once the largest single-operator narrow-gauge railway network in Germany. In Saxony, the network peaked shortly...
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Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) or 1 metre. Metre gauge is used in around...
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and 600 mm gauge railways are narrow gauge railways with track gauges of 2 ft (610 mm) and 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in), respectively. Railways with similar...
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Riedlhütte narrow-gauge railway (German Feld- und Waldbahn Riedlhütte e.V.) is a not for profit light railway in Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte in the Bayerischer...
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to preserving narrow-gauge railways is the FPKW, the Polish Narrow Gauge Railways Foundation. A few tramways also use 1000mm gauge, in Bydgoszcz, Elbląg...
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Three foot gauge railways have a track gauge of 3 ft (914 mm) or 1 yard. This gauge is a narrow gauge and is generally found throughout North, Central...
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Narrow-gauge railways are common in Africa, where great distances, challenging terrain and low cost have made the narrow gauges attractive. Many nations...
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gauge Gotthard Railway of Swiss Federal Railways. Brig in the canton of Valais is a rail junction with standard gauge lines of Swiss Federal Railways...
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(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...
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extensive narrow-gauge railways in the Austro-Hungarian Empire with those in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until the outbreak of the Balkan Wars in 1912 several...
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(also called HOn2½, HO9 and H0e) gauge is the modelling of narrow-gauge railways in HO on N (9 mm / 0.354 in) gauge track in 1:87 scale ratio. The term HOn30...
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The Rügen narrow-gauge railway (German: Rügensche Bäderbahn, formerly Rügensche Kleinbahn or RüKB) – nicknamed Rasender Roland ("Raging Roland") – is a...
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A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in). The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George...
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Railways with a railway track gauge of 5 ft (1,524 mm) first appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States. This gauge became commonly known as...
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Lithuania has 158.8 km of 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) narrow-gauge railway lines remaining, although only 68.4 km of them (serving five stations) are regularly...
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vision for the railways, seeing them as a way of stimulating the internal growth of Greece and proposed a 417 kilometres (259 mi) narrow-gauge (1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in))...
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Railways with a track gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) were first constructed as horse-drawn wagonways. The first intercity passenger railway to use 3 ft...
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preserved in museums or in theme parks, such as the Efteling Steam Train Company. The majority of the Dutch narrow-gauge railways were built as steam tram...
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persistent proposals for a railway in the first half of the 20th century, but none of them proceeded. A 900 mm narrow-gauge railway was used for the construction...
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Feldbahn (redirect from Field railway)
Feldbahn, or Lorenbahn, is the German term for a narrow-gauge field railway, usually not open to the public, which in its simplest form provides for the...
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Ohrid line (redirect from Narrow-gauge railways in the Republic of Macedonia)
the 760 mm Bosnian gauge of the Austro-Hungarian railways that would later become so well known as part of narrow gauge railways in Yugoslavia. Construction...
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railways, the gauges are overlapping. There are also some extreme narrow gauge railways listed. See: Distinction between a ridable miniature railway and a minimum...
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Stephenson standard gauge. By choosing a smaller gauge than this for a particular scale, the model represents a narrow-gauge example. Such gauge and scale combinations...
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The Aukštaitijos narrow gauge railway (Lithuanian Aukštaitijos siaurasis geležinkelis for Aukštaitija narrow gauge railway) is a 68.4 kilometres (42.5 mi)...
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Rail transport in Germany History of the railway in Württemberg German steam locomotive classification Narrow gauge railways in Germany Georgius Agricola...
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