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Track gauge
By transport mode
By size (
list )
Minimum
Minimum
Fifteen inch
381 mm
(15 in)
Narrow
(1 ft 11+ 5 ⁄8 in) (2 ft) (2 ft 3 in)
(2 ft 5+ 1 ⁄2 in) (2 ft 5+ 15 ⁄16 in) (2 ft 6 in)
891 mm 900 mm 914 mm 950 mm
(2 ft 11+ 3 ⁄32 in) (2 ft 11+ 7 ⁄16 in) (3 ft) (3 ft1+ 13 ⁄32 in)
Metre
1,000 mm
(3 ft 3+ 3 ⁄8 in)
Three foot six inch
1,067 mm
(3 ft 6 in)
Four foot
1,219 mm
(4 ft)
Four foot six inch
1,372 mm
(4 ft 6 in)
1432 mm
1,432 mm
(4 ft 8+ 3 ⁄8 in)
Standard 1,435 mm
(4 ft 8+ 1 ⁄2 in)
Broad
(4 ft 8+ 7 ⁄8 in) (4 ft 9+ 3 ⁄32 in)
Leipzig gauge
1,458 mm
(4 ft 9+ 13 ⁄32 in)
Toronto gauge
1,495 mm
(4 ft 10+ 7 ⁄8 in)
(4 ft 11+ 27 ⁄32 in) (5 ft)
1,581 mm 1,588 mm 1,600 mm
(5 ft 2+ 1 ⁄4 in) (5 ft 2+ 1 ⁄2 in) (5 ft 3 in)
Baltimore gauge
1,638 mm
(5 ft 4+ 1 ⁄2 in)
(5 ft 5+ 21 ⁄32 in) (5 ft 6 in)
Six foot
1,829 mm
(6 ft)
Brunel
2,140 mm
(7 ft 1 ⁄4
Change of gauge
By location
A junction on the underground freight railway network built by the defunct
Chicago Tunnel Company .
A steam train on a revived segment of the
Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad in
Maine .
A
Crown Metal Products -built train on
Hersheypark's
Dry Gulch Railroad in
Pennsylvania in 1966.
A list of 2 ft (610 mm )
narrow-gauge railways in the
United States .
Railroads See also References
Minimum-gauge Minimum-gauge railways
Narrow gauge
2 foot and 600 mm
750 mm 2 ft 5+ 1 ⁄2 in )
760 mm 2 ft 5+ 15 ⁄16 in )
2 ft 6 in 762 mm )
800 mm 2 ft 7+ 1 ⁄2 in )
891 mm (2 ft 11+ 3 ⁄32 in )
Swedish three foot
900 mm 2 ft 11+ 7 ⁄16 in )
3 ft 914 mm )
950 mm 3 ft 1+ 3 ⁄8 in )
Italian metre gauge
1,000 mm (3 ft 3+ 3 ⁄8 in )
metre gauge
1,050 mm 3 ft 5+ 11 ⁄32 in ),
1,055 mm 3 ft 5+ 1 ⁄2 in ),
3 ft 6 in 1,067 mm )
1,093 mm 3 ft 7 in ),
1,100 mm 3 ft 7+ 5 ⁄16 in ),
1,200 mm 3 ft 11+ 1 ⁄4 in )
4 ft 1,219 mm )
4 ft 1 in (1,245 mm ),
Middleton Railway
4 ft 6 in 1,372 mm ), Scotch gauge
4 ft 6+ 1 ⁄2 in 1,384 mm ), Scotch gauge
4 ft 7+ 3 ⁄4 in 1,416 mm )
4 ft 8 in 1,422 mm ), almost standard gauge
4 ft 8+ 1 ⁄4 in 1,429 mm )
1,432 mm 4 ft 8+ 3 ⁄8 in )
Standard gauge
Broad gauge
1,440 mm 4 ft 8+ 11 ⁄16 in )
1,445 mm (4 ft 8+ 7 ⁄8 in )
1,450 mm 4 ft 9+ 3 ⁄32 in )
4 ft 9+ 3 ⁄8 in 1,457 mm )
1,458 mm 4 ft 9+ 13 ⁄32 in )
4 ft 10+ 7 ⁄8 in 1,495 mm ), Toronto gauge
5 ft / 1,524 mm and 1,520 mm 4 ft 11+ 27 ⁄32 in ), Russian gauge.
5 ft 2+ 1 ⁄4 in 1,581 mm and
5 ft 2+ 1 ⁄2 in 1,588 mm , Pennsylvania gauge
5 ft 3 in 1,600 mm ), Irish gauge
5 ft 4+ 1 ⁄2 in 1,638 mm ), Baltimore gauge
1,668 mm 5 ft 5+ 21 ⁄32 in ), Iberian gauge
5 ft 6 in 1,676 mm ), Indian gauge
7 ft 1 ⁄4 2,140 mm ), Brunel gauge
3,000 mm 9 ft 10+ 1 ⁄8 in ), Breitspurbahn
8,200 mm (26 ft 10+ 27 ⁄32 in ),
Lärchwandschrägaufzug 9,000 mm (29 ft 6+ 5 ⁄16 in ),
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