A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge...
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thousand British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways. Many notable...
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The Harz 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...
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the track gauge. Since many different track gauges exist worldwide, gauge differences often present a barrier to wider operation on railway networks....
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The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum (Welsh: Amgueddfa Rheilffyrdd Bach Cul) is a purpose-built museum dedicated to narrow-gauge railways situated at the Tywyn...
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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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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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world, which are classified as narrow gauge railways. 1795 One of the first railways to use 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge was the Little Eaton Gangway in...
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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...
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of industrial narrow-gauge railway equipment and equipped one of the most extensive regional 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) narrow-gauge railway, the Chemins...
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narrow railway track gauge was 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), the current track gauge is predominantly 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in). In Soviet Russia, narrow-gauge railways...
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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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Europe inherited a diversity of rail gauges. Extensive narrow-gauge railway networks exist in Spain, Central Europe and Southeastern Europe. Some two dozen...
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Most narrow-gauge railways in Italy were built with Italian metre gauge, which is actually 950 mm (3 ft 1+3⁄8 in) because historically the Italian track...
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metre gauge railways. The majority of these railways was historically operated by FEVE, (Ferrocarriles Españoles de Vía Estrecha, Spanish narrow-gauge railways)...
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403 mi) of narrow-gauge railways, 18,007 kilometres (11,189 mi) of standard gauge railways and 2,685 kilometres (1,668 mi) of broad gauge railways. In the...
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Narrow Gauge Railways (NWNGR) was a railway company that planned to build a number of inter-connected 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow-gauge railways across...
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Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway (TNGR) is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway running alongside the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway at Toddington...
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(2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) gauge railways were planned in order to link the extensive narrow-gauge railways in the Austro-Hungarian Empire with those in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
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Duffield Bank Railway, specifically its 15 in (381 mm) gauge, distinguishing it from a "narrow gauge" railway. Having previously built a small railway of 9 in...
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Asia has many narrow-gauge railways. The railways of Japan (except for high-speed lines), Indonesia (except for high-speed line) and the Philippines are...
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tourist narrow-gauge railway service in Warsaw, Poland, operated by the Piaseczno–Grójec Narrow-Gauge Railway Society, with the metre-gauge railway (1,000...
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(3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge Kunming–Haiphong railway uses narrow gauge. In addition, there are some industrial lines still using narrow gauge, mostly 2 ft 6 in...
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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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Light Railway, Skegness, Lincolnshire Narrow Gauge Railway, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire North Ings Farm Railway, Lincolnshire Sherwood Forest Railway, Nottinghamshire...
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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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Rail transport in Australia involves a number of narrow-gauge railways. In some states they formed the core statewide network, but in the others they...
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This is a list of former and current narrow-gauge railways in India. All railways except the heritage ones are closed or under conversion/are converted...
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Duffield Bank Railway, distinguishing it from a "narrow-gauge" railway. Having previously built a small railway of 9 in (229 mm) gauge, he settled on...
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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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