3 ft gauge railways

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, and South America. In Ireland, many secondary and industrial lines were built to 3 ft gauge, and it is the dominant gauge on the Isle of Man, where it is known as the Manx Standard Gauge. Modern 3 ft gauge railways are most commonly found in isolated mountainous areas, on small islands, or in large-scale amusement parks and theme parks (see table below). This gauge is also popular in model railroading (particularly in G scale), and model prototypes of these railways have been made by several model train brands around the world, such as Accucraft Trains (US), Aristo-Craft Trains (US), Bachmann Industries (Hong Kong), Delton Locomotive Works (US), LGB (Germany),^[1] and PIKO (Germany).

Fintown station on the trackbed of the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee (CDR) in County Donegal

A bridge of the defunct National Railroad of Mexico in 1883

A railbus on the Ferrocarril Santa Ana near Machu Picchu

An electric tram on the Tranvía de Sóller on the Spanish island of Majorca

Railways

Country/territory	Railway
Australia	Powelltown Tramway (defunct)
Belize	Main article: Rail transport in Belize
Brazil	Colégio Regina Coeli (operating) Nossa Senhora da Glória do Outeiro (operating)
Canada	BC Forest Discovery Centre (operating) Columbia and Western Railway (defunct) Kaslo and Slocan Railway (defunct) Kimberley's Underground Mining Railway (defunct) Klondike Mines Railway (defunct) North Western Coal and Navigation Company (defunct) Sullivan Mine (defunct) Western Development Museum Short Line (located at the Moose Jaw Western Development Museum) (operating) White Pass & Yukon Route (crosses into Alaska, United States) (Historic Civil Engineering Landmark status) (operating as a heritage railway) Whitehorse Waterfront Trolley (operating as a heritage streetcar)
Colombia	Main article: Rail transport in Colombia
Cuba	Ferrocarril Recreacional[2] (located in Parque Lenin) (closed - park still operating)
El Salvador	Main article: Rail transport in El Salvador
France	Disneyland Railroad (Paris) (located in Disneyland Park (Paris)) (operating) Horse-Drawn Streetcars (located in Disneyland Park (Paris)) (operating)
Germany	Santa Fé Express (located in Fort Fun Abenteuerland [de]) (operating) Trams in Chemnitz (converted to 925 mm (3 ft 13⁄32 in) gauge, then converted to standard gauge) (operating)
Guatemala	Main article: Rail transport in Guatemala
Guyana	Main article: Railways in Guyana
Honduras	Main article: Rail transport in Honduras
Hong Kong	Hong Kong Disneyland Railroad (located in Hong Kong Disneyland) (operating)
Ireland	Main article: List of narrow-gauge railways in Ireland
Iraq	Al Zawra’a Dream Park[3][4] (operating)
Isle of Man	Douglas Bay Horse Tramway (operating) Foxdale Railway (defunct) Isle of Man Railway (operating) Manx Electric Railway (operating) Manx Northern Railway (defunct) Queen's Pier Tramway (defunct) Upper Douglas Cable Tramway (defunct)
Japan	Jolly Trolley (located in Tokyo Disneyland) (separate 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge railway named Western River Railroad also present) (defunct - park and separate railway still operating) Koiwai Farm [jp] (operating) Saidaiji Railway [jp] (defunct) Seikan Tunnel Tappi Shakō Line (operating)
Kuwait	Kuwait Entertainment City (operating)
Mexico	Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán (defunct) Interoceanic Railway of Mexico (defunct) National Railroad of Mexico (converted to standard gauge) (defunct) Parque Héroes Mexicanos[5][6] (operating) Tren Escénico (operating)
Nauru	Main article: Rail transport in Nauru
New Caledonia	Nouméa-Païta Railway (defunct)
New Zealand	Dun Mountain Railway (defunct)
Peru	Ferrocarril Santa Ana (operating)
Philippines	Hawaiian–Philippine Company, Negros Island (operating).[7]
Spain	Ferrocarril de Sóller (operating) Ferrocarril Tour (located in PortAventura Park) (operating) Tranvía de Sóller (operating) The Ferrocarril de Sóller and the Tranvía de Sóller are located on Majorca in the Balearic Islands. The other railways of the Majorca rail network were also 3 ft (914 mm) gauge, but with expansion and reconstruction of the network in the early 2000s, they were converted to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge.
United Kingdom	Main article: 3 ft gauge railways in the United Kingdom
United States	Main article: 3 ft gauge railroads in the United States

See also

• Trains portal

• Heritage railway
• Large amusement railways
• List of track gauges
• Swedish three foot gauge railways