List of track gauges

This list presents an overview of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails.

  Narrow gauge (1,067 mm)

  Standard gauge (1,435 mm)

  Broad gauge (1,600 mm)

The large network of narrow-gauge sugar cane light railways, almost all 610 mm (2 ft) gauge, is not shown. See Rail gauge in Australia.

Triple-gauge track on turntable, Gladstone, South Australia

Map of the world's railways showing the different major gauges in use

  3 ft gauge (914 mm)

  Meter gauge (1,000 mm)

  Cape gauge (1,067 mm)

  Standard gauge (1,435 mm)

  Russian gauge (1,520 mm)

      Five foot gauge (1,524 mm)

  Irish gauge (1,600 mm)

  Iberian gauge (1,668 mm)

  Indian gauge (1,676 mm)

Track gauges by size

Museum display showing comparison of the following track gauges:

  600 mm

  750 mm

  Meter gauge (1,000 mm)

  Cape gauge (1,067 mm)

  Standard gauge (1,435 mm)

  Five foot gauge (1,524 mm)

  Irish gauge (1,600 mm)

  Indian gauge (1,676 mm)

Minimum and ridable miniature railways

Main articles: Minimum-gauge railway and Ridable miniature railway

For ridable miniature railways and minimum-gauge railways, the gauges are overlapping. There are also some extreme narrow-gauge railways listed. See: Distinction between a ridable miniature railway and a minimum-gauge railway for clarification.

Model railway gauges are covered in rail transport modelling scales.

Train with model Southern Railway Schools class on the dual-gauge Orchid Line

Triple-gauge pointwork (3+1⁄2 in, 5 in, and 7+1⁄4 in) on the Orchid Line. The upper right branch does not include the 3+1⁄2 in gauge.

Gauge		Country	Notes
Metric	Imperial
89 mm	3+1⁄2 in		See 3+1⁄2 in (89 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
121 mm	4+3⁄4 in		See 4+3⁄4 in (121 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
127 mm	5 in		See 5 in (127 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
145 mm	5+7⁄10 in and 5+45⁄64 in	Denmark	Brandhøjbanendk, at Hedeland veteran railwaydk, Hedeland, Hedehusene, Høje-Taastrup. Mixed gauge: 5 in (127 mm), 5+7⁄10 in (145 mm) and 7+1⁄4 in (184 mm) gauges are all in use on this model-miniature railway.,[1][2] there is also one at Denmark’s railway museum in Odense,[3][4][5] one at the Tramway Museum Skjoldenæsholm, Jystrup, Ringsted,[6] and many other model-miniature railways in Denmark[7][8][9][10] and Model lane Europe, Hadsten, Favrskov[11] and many others.[12][13][14][15]
184 mm	7+1⁄4 in		See 7+1⁄4 (184 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
190.5 mm	7+1⁄2 in		See 7+1⁄2 in (190.5 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
210 mm	8+1⁄4 in		See 8+1⁄4 in (210 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
229 mm	9 in		See 9 in (229 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
		England	Railway built by minimum-gauge pioneer Sir Arthur Heywood, later abandoned in favor of 15 in (381 mm) gauge.
240 mm	9+7⁄16 in		See 9+7⁄16 in (240 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
241 mm	9+1⁄2 in		See 9+1⁄2 in (241 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
260 mm	10+1⁄4 in		See 10+1⁄4 in (260 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
267 mm	10+1⁄2 in	England	Beale Park miniature railway
305 mm	12 in		See 12 in (305 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
310 mm	12+13⁄64 in	Denmark	See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark.
311 mm	12+1⁄4 in	Wales	Fairbourne Railway
340 mm	13+3⁄8 in	Netherlands	Ridable miniature railway in DierenPark Amersfoort[16]
350 mm	13+25⁄32 in	Netherlands	Collection Decauville Spoorweg Museum[17]
356 mm	14 in	United States	See 14 in (356 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways and Chicago Tunnel Company (during construction process).
368 mm	14+1⁄2 in	United States	John J. Coit's Seaside Park Miniature Railway and Long Beach and Asbury Park Railway
381 mm	15 in		See 15 in gauge railways.
400 mm	15+3⁄4 in	Denmark	See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark.
		France	Agricultural field railways (Decauville portable track)
406 mm	16 in	United States	See 16 in (406 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways.
419 mm	16+1⁄2 in	Canada	See 16+1⁄2 in (419 mm) gauge ridable miniature railway.
		England	Berkhamsted Gasworks Railway[18]
432 mm	17 in	England	Long Rake Spar mine, underground mine railway[19]
450 mm	17+23⁄32 in	Czech Republic	Industrial railways[20]
		England	Littlethorpe Potteries, hand-worked line connecting clay pits to pottery[21]
457 mm	18 in	England	Crewe Works Railway, Horwich Works Railway, Royal Arsenal Railway, Sand Hutton Light Railway, Steeple Grange Light Railway
		United States	Eastlake Park Scenic Railway, Venice Miniature Railway and Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad
		Australia	National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
470 mm	18+1⁄2 in	United States	Travel Town Museum miniature railway
483 mm	19 in	Isle of Man	Great Laxey Mine Railway
		United States	Swanton Pacific Railroad
495 mm	19+1⁄2 in	England	Ayle Colliery mine railway, Athole G. Allen Ltd. Closehouse Barytes Mine railway[19]

Narrow gauge

Main article: Narrow-gauge railway

Railways with a track gauge between 500 mm (19+3⁄4 in) and 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge.

A diamond crossing of tracks of two different gauges

A diamond crossing of tracks of two different gauges

2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge track

Comparison of four gauges in Hoorn:

  Standard gauge (1,435 mm)

  Cape gauge (1,067 mm)

  Meter gauge (1,000 mm)

  750 mm

Dual-gauge track in Nevada: standard and 3 ft (914 mm)

Gauge		Country	Notes
Metric	Imperial
500 mm	19+3⁄4 in	Austria	Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald Feldbahn
		Argentina	Tren del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia – Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego
		Denmark	See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark
		France	Several Decauville portable railways, Chemin de Fer Touristique du Tarn, Petit train d'Artouste
		Hungary	Mining railways in Pilisszentiván (defunct), Törökszentmiklós brick factory
508 mm	20 in	England	Great Woburn Railway situated in Woburn Safari Park; and North Bay Railway near Scarborough
		United States	Confusion Hill
		Russia	Krasnoyarsk Child Railway
520 mm	20+15⁄32 in	Germany	Several mine railways. Origine: from 1 ft 8 in preußische Zoll = 523.2 mm.[22]
533 mm	21 in	England	Pleasure Beach Express
550 mm	21+21⁄32 in	Denmark	Mønsted Kalkgruber, in a former limestone quarry, railway is preserved. Narrow-gauge railways in Europe Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark.
		Germany	Mine railways in Mayen
557 mm	21+15⁄16 in	Dominican Republic	Transport in the Dominican Republic
560 mm	22+1⁄16 in	Germany	Salt mine railway in Berchtesgaden[23]
575 mm	22+5⁄8 in	Germany	Iron ore mine railways in Bad Ems and Ramsbeck[24]
578 mm	1 ft 10+3⁄4 in	United States	Lakeside Amusement Park & San Francisco Zoo
		Wales	Penrhyn Quarry Railway
580 mm	22+27⁄32 in	Austria	Wolfsegg Traunthaler Kohlenwerke in Ampflwang im Hausruckwald[25]
		Hungary	Mining railways in Dorog (defunct)
597 mm	1 ft 11+1⁄2 in		See 2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways 2 ft gauge railways in Australia 2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways in the United Kingdom
600 mm	1 ft 11+5⁄8 in
603 mm	1 ft 11+3⁄4 in
610 mm	2 ft
620 mm	2 ft 13⁄32 in	Slovenia	Cave railway in the Postojna Cave[26]
622 mm	2 ft 1⁄2 in	Wales	Penrhyn Quarry Railway, until 1879
630 mm	24+13⁄16 in	Germany	Brickworks in Zehdenick[27]
650 mm	2 ft 1+19⁄32	Brazil	[28]
		Mozambique	[28]
655 mm	2 ft 1+25⁄32 in	Germany	Schlebusch-Harkorter Coal Railway[citation needed]
660 mm	2 ft 2 in	Germany	Industrial and mine railways in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate
		Japan	Yamanashi horse-drawn tramway
		Wales	Cwt y Bugail quarry
682 mm	2 ft 2+27⁄32 in	Denmark	See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark
686 mm	2 ft 3 in		See List of 2 ft 3 in gauge railways
693 mm	2 ft 3+9⁄32 in	Sweden	28 Swedish inches.[29] Several railways.
700 mm	2 ft 3+9⁄16 in	Denmark	See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark and Narrow-gauge railways in Europe. Common for sugar beet or sugar cane railways and peat railways. Hedeland veteran railway is preserveddk.[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] Store Vildmose railway don’t exist anymore, only a few materials and only one train remains for preservation on Hedeland veteran railway.[43][44][36][45][46] Stenvad Mosebrug (Stenvad Mosebrugscenter), Mosebrugsbanen peat museum railway is preserved.[47][48][49][50] Bunkermuseum Hanstholm museum (MuseumsCenter Hanstholm) railway is preserved.[51][52] Blovstrød Banen railway is preserved. Lille Vildmose (Lille Vildmosecentret), Lille Vildmose Museum Center, Dokkedal railway is preserved.[53][54] Ree Park – America Expresses.[55] Østerbygård Dambrug is an active industrial railway.[56] Fuglsø mose is an active industrial railway.[57][58] Pindstrup Mosebrug is an active industrial railway.[59][60][61][62][63][64][65][44]
		England	Biwater Pipes and Castings[66]
		France	Chemin de fer d'Abreschviller
		Hungary	Pálházi State Forest Railway (1888-1947, rebuilt to 760 mm)
		Indonesia	Once used by 36 sugar mills in Java, only 23 still in use.
		Latvia	Used in some peat railways
		Netherlands	Used in industrial, peat, and field railways
711 mm	2 ft 4 in	England	Snailbeach District Railways
716 mm	2 ft 4+3⁄16 in	Poland	Dobre Aleksandrowskie – Kruszwica railway[67] (operating tourist railway)
724 mm	2 ft 4+1⁄2 in	Wales	Guest Keen Baldwins Iron and Steel Company Ltd.: Briton Ferry Steelworks,[68] Glyn Valley Tramway
737 mm	2 ft 5 in	England	St. Michael's Mount Tramway[69]
740 mm	2 ft 5+1⁄8 in	Luxembourg	Minière et Métallurgique de Rodange mine railway[70]
750 mm	2 ft 5+1⁄2 in		See 750 mm gauge railways
760 mm	2 ft 5+15⁄16 in	Bulgaria	Origin: 1⁄2 Austrian fathom See Bosnian gauge Septemvri – Dobriniste narrow railway
762 mm	2 ft 6 in		See 2 ft 6 in gauge railways
765 mm	2 ft 6+1⁄8 in	DR Congo	Matadi–Kinshasa Railway, converted to 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) 1925–1931.[71]
		Denmark	See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark
775 mm	2 ft 6+1⁄2 in	England	Jee's Hartshill Granite Quarry[72]
		Germany	Bombergbahn [de], a funicular in Bad Pyrmont
785 mm	2 ft 6+29⁄32 in	Denmark	See Narrow-gauge railways in Europe and Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark. Hjerl Hede museum (Frilandsmuseum) peat railway is preserved, 785 mm 2 ft 6+29⁄32 in and 791 mm 2 ft 7+5⁄32 in gauges are both used on this railway.[73]
		Germany	Origin: 2+1⁄2 Prussian feet Bröl Valley Railway
		Poland	Silesian Interurbans, Upper Silesian narrow gauge railways
791 mm	2 ft 7+5⁄32 in	Denmark	See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark and Narrow-gauge railways in Europe. Faxe Jernbane in southern Zealand, 791 mm 2 ft 7+5⁄32 in and 785 mm 2 ft 6+29⁄32 in, 2½ feet (785 mm) both gauges were used at Faxe Jernbane and Faxe limestone quarry, none remains, only a few materials and trains from Faxe Jernbane and Faxe limestone quarry remains for preservation on Hedeland veteran railwaydk.[74][75]
800 mm	2 ft 7+1⁄2 in		See 800 mm gauge railways
802 mm	2 ft 7+9⁄16 in	Sweden	Far behind 891 mm (2 ft 11+3⁄32 in), one of the most common narrow gauges in Sweden, for example the Hällefors–Fredriksberg Railways [sv] (1874–1970) in Värmland. Never formed much of a network, none remain.
813 mm	2 ft 8 in	England	Winnal Gasworks Railway[76]
		Wales	Rhosydd Quarry, a counterbalance weight for a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) gauge incline;
820 mm	2 ft 8+9⁄32 in	Germany	Prince William Railway Company, Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr railway, converted to standard gauge.
825 mm	2 ft 8+1⁄2 in	England	Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway (a vehicle that ran on two parallel 2 ft 8+1⁄2 in (825 mm) gauge tracks, billed as 18 ft (5.5 m) gauge), Furzebrook Railway and Volk's Electric Railway
838 mm	2 ft 9 in	Japan	Nankai Railway (former gauge, converted to 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in gauge)
		England	Seaton Tramway, Volk's Electric Railway (former gauge)
850 mm	2 ft 9+15⁄32 in	Italy	Ponte Tresa-Luino (1924: converted to 1,100 mm (3 ft 7+5⁄16 in) gauge, 1950: closed) Menaggio–Porlezza railway (1939: closed)
860 mm	2 ft 9+7⁄8 in	Germany	Alsen´sche Portland-Cementfabrik KG in Itzehoe[77]
876 mm	2 ft 10+1⁄2 in	England	Biwater Pipes and Castings[78] Cattybrook Brickworks railway[18]
880 mm	2 ft 10+21⁄32 in	Germany	Bayerisches Moor- und Torfmuseum,[79] Peat museum (operating)
		Norway	Industrial railway in Stokke
889 mm	2 ft 11 in	England	Miller Engineering & Construction Ltd. Sandiacre depot[80]
		Germany	Schlebusch-Harkorter Coal Railway[citation needed]
891 mm	2 ft 11+3⁄32 in	Sweden	3 Swedish feet See Swedish three-foot–gauge railways
900 mm	2 ft 11+7⁄16 in		See 900 mm gauge railways
914 mm	3 ft		See 3 ft gauge railways 3 ft gauge railways in the United Kingdom
925 mm	3 ft 13⁄32 in	Germany	Trams in Chemnitz, since in 1914
943 mm	3 ft 1+1⁄8 in	England	Central Electricity Generating Board Fawley Tunnel[76]
946 mm	3 ft 1+1⁄4 in	Austria	Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2,[81] a funicular partly inside a tunnel.
950 mm	3 ft 1+3⁄8 in	Eritrea	Eritrean Railway
		Hungary	Zsuzsi Forest Railway (1882-1961, re-built to 760 mm)
		Italy	Cagliari light rail, Circumvesuviana, Dolomites Railway, Ferrovia Circumetnea, Ferrovie della Sardegna, Metrosassari, Rome–Giardinetti railway, Rome–Fiuggi railway
		Libya	Italian Libya Railways
		Somalia	Mogadishu-Villabruzzi Railway
955 mm	3 ft 1+19⁄32 in	Switzerland	Polybahn funicular
965 mm	3 ft 2 in	England	Clifton Rocks Railway
		United States	Birmingham Coal Company Railroad, Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railroad, Keeling Coal Company, Trinidad Street Railway (Colorado),[82] and Streetcars in Monterey (1891–1914)
972 mm	3 ft 2+1⁄4 in	England	Betchworth Quarry Railways]]
985 mm	3 ft 2+25⁄32 in	Switzerland	Zugerberg Funicular
991 mm	3 ft 3 in	United States	Tampa Street Railway[82]
1,000 mm	3 ft 3+3⁄8 in		See metre-gauge railway
1,009 mm	3 ft 3+23⁄32 in	Bulgaria	Sofia Tramway
1,016 mm	3 ft 4 in	Scotland	Kilmarnock and Troon Railway
		United States	Coal Hill Coal Railroad, Keeling Coal Company, Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Plane, Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad
1,029 mm	3 ft 4+1⁄2 in	England	Herne Bay Pier Railway
1,035 mm	3 ft 4+3⁄4 in	England	Lake Lock Rail Road
1,040 mm	3 ft 5 in	Austria	Festungsbahn (Salzburg)
1,050 mm	3 ft 5+11⁄32 in	Jordan	Hejaz railway
		Syria
		Lebanon and Syria	Former Beyrouth – Damascus Railway, in Lebanon mostly dismantled
		Syria and Saudi Arabia	Hejaz railway (Damascus–Medina)
1,055 mm	3 ft 5+1⁄2 in	Algeria	National Company for Rail Transport
1,067 mm	3 ft 6 in		See 3 ft 6 in gauge railways
1,093 mm	3 ft 7 in	England	Middlesbrough Corporation Tramways, Middlesbrough, Stockton and Thornaby Electric Tramways Company and Swinefleet Works
		Sweden	Köping–Uttersberg–Riddarhyttan Railway, 1864–1968. The gauge was by mistake.
1,099 mm	3 ft 7+1⁄4 in	Sweden	Christinehamn–Sjöändans järnväg [sv][83] 44 Swedish inches[29]
1,100 mm	3 ft 7+5⁄16 in	Brazil	The Santa Teresa Tramway in Rio de Janeiro
		Germany	Braunschweig tram system; tram systems in Kiel and Lübeck, closed
		Italy	Former SVIE (Società Varesina per Impresse Electriche) network around Varese, circa 1903–1955
1,106 mm	3 ft 7+1⁄2 in	Austria	Horse-drawn railway from Gmunden in the Salzkammergut to Budweis, now in the Czech Republic; coal railways Thomasroith–Attnang and Breitenschützing–Kohlgrube. 3 Austrian Fuß (ft) 6 Zoll (inch)[28]
1,118 mm	3 ft 8 in	United States	Bellaire Street Railroad Company, Gainesvllle Street Railway Company, Clinton and Lyons Horse Railway Company[82]
1,130 mm	3 ft 8+1⁄2 in	England	London Pneumatic Despatch Company
1,143 mm	3 ft 9 in	England	Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, Saltburn Cliff Lift (until 1921)
1,151 mm	3 ft 9+5⁄16 in	Belgium	Used on line 59 between 1844 and 1897 when the line was privately operated.[84][85][86]
1,156 mm	3 ft 9+1⁄2 in	United States	Arcata and Mad River Railroad, Northern Redwood Lumber Company[87]
1,168 mm	3 ft 10 in	United States	El Conquistador Resort (Puerto Rico), Mechanicsburg and Buffalo Railway[82]
1,188 mm	3 ft 10+25⁄32 in	Sweden	Engelsberg–Norberg Railway
		Indonesia	Trams in Jakarta
1,200 mm	3 ft 11+1⁄4 in	China	Chaoyang Commuter Rail [zh], Chaoyang District, Shantou, China
		France	Funiculars: Funiculaire du Perce-Neige in Tignes, and Funival at Val-d'Isère
		Italy	Funiculars: Central Funicular of the Naples Metro, Gardena Ronda Express in Val Gherdëina (South Tyrol)
		Switzerland	Parsenn funicular at Davos, Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain railway (part of St. Gallen S-Bahn), St. Moritz–Corviglia funicular (lower section only of 436 metres (1,430 ft) route-length only – upper section is 1,440 mm (4 ft 8+11⁄16 in) gauge), Thunersee–Beatenberg funicular in Bern canton
1,217 mm	3 ft 11+29⁄32 in	Sweden	Four lines, all converted to standard gauge before 1900, still in use. 1217 mm is based on Swedish feet but compatible with locomotives of 1,219 mm (4 ft). See:Narrow-gauge railways in Sweden
1,219 mm	4 ft	England	Furzebrook Railway (c.1830–1957), Redruth and Chasewater Railway 1826–1915, Bradford Corporation Tramways, Keighley Tramway and a cluster in the NW of England
		Isle of Man	First Falcon Cliff lift (closed 1896), Port Soderick Cliff Lift, (closed 1939), Douglas Head Funicular Railway (closed 1953)
		New Zealand	Wellington tramway system: electric trams, closed 1964.
		Scotland	Falkirk and District Tramways (1905–1936), Glasgow Subway
		United States	Former tram systems in Canton, Ohio; Honolulu, Hawaii; Laredo, Texas; Pueblo, Colorado; San Antonio, Texas; Sioux City, Iowa[88]
		Wales	Padarn Railway (1842–1961), Saundersfoot Railway (1829–1939)
1,245 mm	4 ft 1 in	England	Middleton Railway, converted to standard gauge after 1881
		United States	Hecla and Torch Lake Railroad,[89] Corrigan Consolidated Street Railway, Lawrence Transportation Company[82]
1,270 mm	4 ft 2 in	England	Surrey Iron Railway
		United States	Brooklyn Heights Railway, St. Cloud Street Railway[82]
		Wales	Merthyr Tramroad, Rumney Railway
1,283 mm	4 ft 2+1⁄2 in	England	Saltburn Cliff Lift (from 1922)
		United States	Red Oak Street Railroad[82]
1,295 mm	4 ft 3 in	United States	Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad, Delaware and Hudson Railway and Haytor Granite Tramway
1,300 mm	4 ft 3+3⁄16 in	France	Funiculars of Lyon (Lyon, France)
		Austria	Reisszug (Salzburg, Austria)
1,321 mm	4 ft 4 in	England	Mansfield and Pinxton Railway
		United States	Shreveport City Railroad[82]
		Wales	Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company (Newport and Pontypool Railway)
1,333 mm	4 ft 4+1⁄2 in	England	Belvoir Castle tramway[90]
		United States	Haverhlll and Groveland Street Railway[82]
1,350 mm	4 ft 5+5⁄32 in	Brazil	Santos tramways (closed 1971)[91] and later Santos heritage tramways (1984–86 and 2000–present)[92]
1,372 mm	4 ft 6 in		See 4 ft 6 in gauge railway
1,384 mm	4 ft 6+1⁄2 in	Scotland	various railways in Scotland prior to 1840
1,397 mm	4 ft 7 in	United States	North Hudson County Railway,[82] Detroit City Railway (until 1870)[93]
		Wales	Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway[94]
1,416 mm	4 ft 7+3⁄4 in	England	Huddersfield Corporation Tramways
		Scotland	List of town tramway systems in Scotland
1,422 mm	4 ft 8 in	United States	Centreville Military Railroad; Green Mountain Cog Railway; Manassas Gap Railroad; Mount Washington Cog Railway
		England	prior to 1846 (proto standard gauge)
1,429 mm	4 ft 8+1⁄4 in	United States	Washington Metro

Standard gauge

Main article: Standard-gauge railway

Standard gauge is 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) gauge. It is the most widely-used gauge: about 60% of the world's railway mileage is standard gauge.^[95]

Several railways use gauges very close to standard gauge, including:

Gauge		Country or Region	Notes
Metric	Imperial
1,432 mm	4 ft 8+3⁄8 in	Hong Kong	Disneyland Resort line, Island line (excluding West Island line), Kwun Tong line (excluding Kwun Tong line extension), Tseung Kwan O line, Tsuen Wan line, Tung Chung line[96]
		Bucharest	Bucharest Metro
1,440 mm	4 ft 8+11⁄16 in	Switzerland	St. Moritz–Corviglia funicular (upper section of 1,616 metres or 5,302 feet route-length only – lower section is 1,200 mm (3 ft 11+1⁄4 in) gauge)

Broad gauge

Main article: Broad-gauge railway

Five collocated track gauges

Broad-gauge and standard-gauge track at Didcot

South Australian Railways triple-gauge change-over trackwork, from one common rail to NG in middle

Gauge		Country or Region	Notes
Metric	Imperial
1,445 mm	4 ft 8+7⁄8 in	Italy	Tramway networks in Milan, Turin and Rome; Orvieto Funicular; railway network until 1930.
		Spain	Madrid Metro
1,448 mm	4 ft 9 in	England	Manchester and Leeds Railway
		United States	Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad, Strasburg Rail Road (converted to standard gauge).[citation needed]
1,460 mm	4 ft 9+1⁄2 in	United States	Citizens' Railroad Company (St. Louis, Missouri), Cass Avenue & Fair Ground Railway[82]
1,450 mm	4 ft 9+3⁄32 in	Germany	Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG, Trams in Dresden
1,458 mm	4 ft 9+13⁄32 in	Germany	Trams in Leipzig
1,473 mm	4 ft 10 in	United States	The Midwest, until after the Civil War (Ohio gauge)
1,486 mm	4 ft 10+1⁄2 in	United States	St. Louis Cable and Western Railway[82]
1,492 mm	4 ft 10+3⁄4 in	Canada	Toronto Suburban Railway[97] from 1891–1917. 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) until the end at 1931
1,495 mm	4 ft 10+7⁄8 in	Canada	Toronto gauge: Halton County Radial Railway, Toronto streetcar system, and Toronto subway (Lines 1, 2, and 4)[97]
1,499 mm	4 ft 11 in	United States	New Albany Railway[82]
1,520 mm	4 ft 11+27⁄32 in	Former USSR	Also named Russian gauge. See 5 ft and 1520 mm gauge railways & Confederate railroads in the American Civil War.
1,522 mm	4 ft 11+29⁄32 in	Finland	Helsinki Metro[98]
1,524 mm	5 ft	Finland	In 1862 the first railway connection in Grand Duchy of Finland were built with five-foot railway gauge,[99] however that gauge was first introduced in United Kingdom.[100]
1,537 mm	5 ft 1⁄2 in	England	London and Blackwall Railway 1840–1849, converted to standard gauge
1,549 mm	5 ft 1 in	United States	Horsecar lines in Camden, New Jersey;[82] Lynchburg Street Railway Company (Virginia)[82]
1,575 mm	5 ft 2 in	Spain	Ferrocarril de Langreo
		United States	Columbus Ohio streetcars[101][88]
1,581 mm	5 ft 2+1⁄4 in	United States	Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA),[88] Philadelphia
1,588 mm	5 ft 2+1⁄2 in	United States	Pennsylvania trolley gauge[88]
1,591 mm	5 ft 2 5⁄8 in	United States	New Orleans City and Lake Railroad, St. Charles Street Railroad[82]
1,600 mm	5 ft 3 in	Germany	Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway 1840-1854, converted to standard gauge
		Ireland	See 5 ft 3 in gauge railways.
		Australia	States of Victoria and South Australia
		Brazil	States of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais
		United States	Streetcars in Altoona, Pennsylvania[82]
1,613 mm	5 ft 3+1⁄2 in	United States	Sacramento Valley Railroad (1852–77)
1,620 mm	5 ft 3 25⁄32 in	South Korea	U Line
1,626 mm	5 ft 4 in	United States	Early railrooads in Ohio[28]
1,638 mm	5 ft 4+1⁄2 in	United States	Baltimore, Baltimore Streetcar System (defunct)[102][88] and Baltimore Streetcar Museum (operating)
1,664 mm	5 ft 5+1⁄2 in	Portugal	5 Portuguese feet Converted to 1,668 mm from 1955[103]
1,668 mm	5 ft 5+21⁄32 in		See Iberian gauge.
1,672 mm	5 ft 5+13⁄16 in	Spain	6 Castilian feet Spanish national rail network Converted to 1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in) Iberian gauge from 1955;[103] The current Barcelona metro line 1 and Cercanías Málaga.
1,676 mm	5 ft 6 in	India	See 5 ft 6 in gauge railway.
		United States	Bay Area Rapid Transit (excluding eBART and OAK Airport line); Some lines in New England were built to this gauge including Androscoggin (until 1861), Maine Central (until 1871), Vermont Central (until 1870s), Grand Trunk (until 1877), Buckfield Branch / Portland & Oxford Central (until 1878), European & North American (until 1877), and Bangor & Piscataquis (until 1877).
1,700 mm	5 ft 7 in [citation needed]	South Korea	Busan Metro Line 4, Sillim Line
1,727 mm	5 ft 8 in	England	Babbacombe Cliff Railway and Fisherman's Walk Cliff Railway
		United States	Central City Horse Railway (Peoria, Illinois)[82]
1,740 mm	5 ft 8 1⁄2 in	United States	Gualala River Railroad[104]
1,750 mm	5 ft 8+7⁄8 in	France	Ligne de Sceaux Paris to Limours via Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, until 1891
1,800 mm	5 ft 10+7⁄8 in	Germany	Oberweißbacher Bergbahn (funicular section only)[105][106]
		United States	Hogwarts Express (located in Universal Orlando Resort)
1,829 mm	6 ft	India	In the 19th century, engineers considered this gauge but finally settled on 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm)
		Russia	Saint Petersburg – Tsarskoe Selo Railways, 1837–1897
		United States	Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, Erie Railroad until June 22, 1880, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad March–May 1876, Predominant gauge used by railroads along southern tier of New York State that connected to the pioneering Erie Railroad. Most lines converted to standard gauge 1876–1880, along with the Erie.
1,850 mm	6 ft 27⁄32 in	Canada	Falls Incline Railway[107] in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario
1,880 mm	6 ft 2 in	Ireland	Ulster Railway, 1839–1846, re-gauged to 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)
		Taiwan	Taipei Metro medium-capacity rubber-tired trains (with 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) rails)
		Japan	SCMaglev train depots for Chuo Shinkansen.
1,945 mm	6 ft 4+9⁄16 in	Netherlands	Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij, 1839–1866[102] De Arend (locomotive)
1,980 mm / 1,981 mm	6 ft 6 in	Israel	Haifa, Carmelit subway railway line – Funicular
		England	North Cliff Lift, Scarborough
2,000 mm	6 ft 6+3⁄4 in	Scotland	Cairngorm Mountain Railway – Funicular
2,134 mm	7 ft	England	Original definition of Brunel's broad gauge. This rail gauge was soon changed to 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm)[108] to ease running in curves.
2,140 mm	7 ft 1⁄4 in	South Africa	East London and Table Bay harbour railways
		England	Brunel's Great Western Railway until converted to standard gauge by May 1892, See Great Western Railway The "gauge war". Also, harbour railways at the Isle of Portland and Brixham
		Isle of Man	Port Erin Breakwater Railway
		Portugal (Azores)	Ponta Delgada and Horta harbour (using rolling stock from Holyhead harbour)
		Wales	Holyhead harbour railway
2,286 mm	7 ft 6 in	England	St Nicholas Cliff Lift, Scarborough
2,440 mm	8 ft	United States	Johnstown Inclined Plane, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
2,642 mm	8 ft 8 in	China	Guangzhou Metro APM Line (uses the Bombardier Innovia APM 100)
2,743 mm	9 ft	Japan	Lake Biwa Canal, an inclined plane near Kyoto
		United States	Knoxville Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3,000 mm	9 ft 10+1⁄8 in	Nazi Germany	See Breitspurbahn.
3,048 mm	10 ft	United States	Fort Pitt Incline, Penn Incline, Monongahela Freight Incline and Castle Shannon Incline, Pittsburgh[109]
3,327 mm	10 ft 11 in	Scotland	Dalzell Iron and Steel Works, Motherwell, Lanarkshire.[110]
5,486 mm	18 ft	England	Magnus Volk's Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway[111]
8,200 mm	26 ft 10+27⁄32 in	Austria	Lärchwandschrägaufzug[112]
9,000 mm	29 ft 6+5⁄16 in	Russia	Krasnoyarsk ship lift[113]

See also

• Trains portal

• List of tram track gauges
• Loading gauge
• Minimum-gauge railway
• Rail transport
• Rapid transit track gauge