A list of gauges of public railways and non-public railways, if of reasonable size. Some industrial railways unofficially carried passengers and goods. Everything that looks like a railway is considered to be one, and everything
that looks like a tramway is considered to be one, no matter what the legal definition is/was. The information has been checked and has not been uncritically copied from similar lists.
Not all railways using a specific gauge are listed and there is no distinction between operating and closed or regauged railways.
Supposedly original definitions are given in bold, their conversions in normal, and other in italics. Feet and inches are imperial unless otherwise stated. 1 ft 11 1/2 in 597 mm Lynton and Barnstaple Rlwy, Ffestiniog Rlwy and other in Wales. 600 mm Decauville. Nättraby-Älmeboda, Lessebo-Målerås, Jönköping-Vireda (Sweden). 2 ft 610 mm Siliguri-Darjeeling (India), England. 26 Swedish inches 643 mm Delary-Strömsnäsbruk (Sweden, industrial railway, but much used by the public). 680 mm Ferrocarril del Sur, Venezuela. 750 mm Germany, Russia, Poland (Many narrow gauge railways regauged to 750 mm in the 1950's). 760 mm Austria, Hungary, "Bosnian Gauge". 2 ft 6 in 762 mm India, England. 780 mm Ilsede-Lengede (1884-1919, Nieder-Sachsen). 30 Prussian inches 785 mm Gliwice-Racibórz and industrial lines (Poland), Bröltalbahn (Near Bonn, Germany). 800 mm Warszawa-Marki, Jablonna-Karczew (Poland). Cog railways in Switzerland, Snowdon Mountain Rlwy (Wales). 2 Swedish feet 7 Swedish decimal inches 802 mm Bredsjö-Degerfors, Hällefors-Fredriksberg, Voxna-Lobonäs (Sweden). 850 mm Luino-Ponte Tresa (Italy). 884 mm Nizhniy Tagil - Visimo-Utka (Russia 1895 - 1960). 3 Swedish feet 891 mm Most narrow gauge railways in Sweden. 900 mm Bad Doberan-Kühlungsborn, Borkum (Germany). TRAM: Krakow (Poland), Linz (Austria), Lisbon. 3 ft 914 mm Huancayo-Huancavelica, Cuzco-Quillabamba (Peru), Palma-Sóller (Mallorca, Spain), Ireland, Isle of Man. 950 mm Sardinia, Sicily, Naples-Alifana, Circumvesuviana, Modena-Mirandola (Italy). 1000 mm Germany, Bolivia, Chile (North of Santiago), Switzerland, Belgium, France, Spain 3 ft 6 in 1067 mm South-East (Blekinge) of Sweden, South Africa, Japan, Verkhovye-Livny (first public narrow gauge rlwy in Russia 1870-97), Chudovo-Novgorod-Staraya Russa, Yaroslavl-Arkhangelsk, Sakhalin (Russia). TRAM: Tallinn (Estonia). 43 in 1093 mm Köping-Uttersberg-Riddarhyttan (Sweden 1864-1968), it was meant to be 43 Swedish inches (1067 mm), but as the engines were by mistake built to imperial inches (43 in = 1093 mm), it was cheaper to regauge the railway than the engines. 1100 mm Varese-Luino (Italy), trams running on public roads in the area (SVIE network). TRAM: Braunschweig, Kiel, Lübeck (Germany). 1151 mm 1150 mm, 1140 mm Antwerpen/Anvers-Gent/Gand (Belgium 1844-1897). 4 Swedish feet 1188 mm Väsman-Barken, Åtvidaberg-Bersbo, Ängelsberg-Kärrgruvan (Sweden). TRAM: Djakarta (Indonesia). 4 ft 1219 mm 1220, 1217 mm Uddevalla-Vänersborg-Herrljunga, Borås-Herrljunga (Sweden). UNDERGROUND: Glasgow Subway. 50 in 1270 mm Carrizal Bajo - Yerbas Buenas (1864-1961, Chile). 1350 mm Carnia-Villa Santina (Italy, uncertain)). TRAM: Santos (Brazil). 4 ft 8 1/2 in 1435 mm Standard Gauge. 5 ft 1524 mm 1520 mm Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Panama and Southern USA before the Civil War. 5 ft 3 in 1600 mm Brasil, Ireland, Australia. 5 Portugese feet 1664 mm 1665 mm Portugal. The information about the Portugese foot may not be correct. 1668 mm Iberian Gauge, new common standard for Spain and Portugal. 6 Castilian feet 1674 mm 1672 mm Spain 5 ft 6 in 1676 mm Chile (South of Santiago), Argentina, India. 1750 mm Paris-Limours, "Ligne de Sceaux" (France). 6 ft 1829 mm St Petersburg - Tsarskoye Selo (Russia), Erie Railroad (USA). 1945 mm Amsterdam-Rotterdam (Netherlands). 7 ft 0 1/4 in 2140 mm Great Western Railway (England).
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