| Gauge | Country | Notes |
|---|
| Metric | Imperial |
|---|
| 2140 mm | 7 ft 0in | United Kingdom | Brunel's Great Western Railway until re-gauged by May 1892,
see Great Western Railway The "gauge war". Also harbour railways at the Isle of Portland (England), Holyhead (Wales), and Port Erin (Isle of Man). |
| Portugal (Azores) | Ponta Delgada harbour |
| South Africa | East London and Table Bay harbour railways |
| 2000 mm | 6 ft 6 in | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Cairngorm Mountain Railway |
| 1945 mm | 6 ft 4 in | Netherlands | 1839–1864 [1] |
| 1880 mm | 6 ft 2 in | United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) | Ulster Railway, 1839–1846 |
| 1800 mm | | Germany | Oberweißbacher Bergbahn |
| 1750 mm | 5 ft 8 in | France | on one line, 1891
|
| 1676 mm | 5 ft 6 in | Argentina | Almost all lines America Latina Logistica [2], (Railroad Development Corporation, ALL Central) (former San MartÃn line),
Nuevo Central Argentino (former Mitre line) and
Ferrosur Roca (former Ferrocarril General Roca), except Urquiza and Belgrano |
| Bangladesh | |
| Canada | Grand Trunk Railway, St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad and the
Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad until 1873, see also
Broad gauge overview, Specific names, Provincial gauge
The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.
Intercolonial Railway of Canada until 1875. See also Canada |
| Chile | Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado |
| India | |
| Pakistan | |
| Sri Lanka | |
| United States of America | BART - Bay Area Rapid Transit - San Francisco Bay Area |
| 1672 mm | 5 ft 5 in (six Castilian feet) | Spain | Original gauge |
| 1668 mm | 5 ft 5 in | Portugal | Adjusted from the original 1664 mm |
| Spain | Adjusted from the original 1672 mm
Barcelona Metro L1 line and All RENFE national railways (except High-Speed AVE line Sevilla-Madrid-Tarragona-Barcelona). |
| 1664 mm | 5 ft 5 in (five Portuguese feet) | Portugal | Original gauge |
| 1638 mm | 5 ft 4 in | US | Baltimore Streetcar System (defunct), see Broad gauge [3] |
| 1600 mm | 5 ft 3 in | Ireland | Both Republic and North |
| Brazil | Lines connecting the states of Rio de Janeiro,
São Paulo and Minas Gerais;
E.F.Carajás in Pará and Maranhão states, and Ferronorte in
Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul states |
| Australia | States of South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales
(a few routes entering from Neighbouring Victoria only) and
Tasmania, Australia (one line, Deloraine to
Launceston,
opened in 1871 and converted to in 1888) |
| New Zealand | Canterbury Provincial Railways
(All routes gauge converted to by 1876) |
| 1588 mm | 5 ft 2in | United States of America | Pennsylvania Trolley gauge (?), Cincinnati ()
and New Orleans
See Broad gauge overview and Railroad Gauge Width |
| 1581 mm | 5 ft 2in | United States of America | Pennsylvania Trolley gauge (?) and Baltimore
See Broad gauge overview and Railroad Gauge Width |
| 1575 mm | 5 ft 2 in | Ireland | Dublin and Drogheda Railway, 1844–1846 |
| 1524 mm | 5 ft | Finland | |
| USA | The South - prior to and after the Civil War |
| Panama Canal | prior to conversion to standard gauge
in 2000 to suit off-the-shelf supply. |
| 1520 mm | 4 ft 11 in | Armenia | |
| Azerbaijan | |
| Belarus | |
| Estonia | |
| Georgia | |
| Kazakhstan | |
| Kyrgyzstan | |
| Latvia | |
| Lithuania | |
| Moldova | |
| Mongolia | |
| Poland | almost exclusively on one line, see Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa |
| Russia | |
| Slovakia | Only on one line ("Širokorozchodná trať" Maťovce -
Haniska pri Košiciach) and from the border station of Čierna nad Tisou
to the state border with Ukraine, both operated by ZSSK Cargo. |
| Tajikistan | |
| Turkmenistan | |
| Ukraine | |
| Uzbekistan | |
| 1495 mm | 4 ft 10 in | Canada | Toronto Transit Commission subway, light rail and streetcars).
See Broad gauge overview, Toronto subway gauge
and Toronto streetcar gauge |
| 1473 mm | 4 ft 10 in | USA | The Midwest - until after the Civil War |
| 1448 mm | 4 ft 9 in | England | Manchester and Leeds Railway |
s of approximately gauge and above. Although technically narrow gauge these railways are often built to substantial standards allowing much higher train speeds and capacity than narrow gauge lines of a smaller gauge.
| Gauge | Country | Notes |
|---|
| Metric | Imperial |
|---|
| 1422 mm | 4 ft 8 in | USA | Mount Washington Cog Railway |
| England | prior to 1846 (proto standard gauge) |
| 1416 mm | 4 ft 7¾ in | Scotland | List of Tramways in Scotland |
| 1384 mm | 4 ft 6½ in | various railways in Scotland |
| 1372 mm | 4 ft 6 in | Japan | Keio Line, Toei Shinjuku Line, Toden Arakawa Line, Tokyu Setagaya Line, Hakodate tramway |
| Scotland | various railways in Scotland |
| 1245 mm | 4 ft 1 in | England | Middleton Railway (standard gauge after 1881) |
| 1219 mm | 4 ft | Wales | Padarn Railway, Saundersfoot Railway |
| Scotland | Glasgow Subway, Falkirk |
| England | Furzebrook Railway, Redruth and Chasewater Railway |
| 1100 mm | 3 ft 7in | Brazil | Santa Teresa streetcar in Rio de Janeiro |
| 1093 mm | 3 ft 7 in | Sweden | the Köping-Uttersberg-Riddarhyttan Railway, 1864-1968. The gauge was by mistake |
| 1067 mm | 3 ft 6 in"Cape gauge" | Angola | Transport in Angola, Benguela railway |
| Australia | Queensland - 'first' 1067 mm gauge railway, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania |
| Botswana | |
| Canada | western New Brunswick until 1880s, all of Newfoundland until abandonment in September 1988 and Prince Edward Island until 1930, standard gauge until abandonment in December 1989, see Canada |
| Congo | |
| Costa Rica | |
| Ecuador | |
| Ghana | |
| Haiti | One of two track gauges known to be used in Haiti |
| Honduras | |
| Indonesia | |
| Japan | |
| Malawi | |
| Mozambique | |
| Namibia | |
| New Zealand | |
| Nicaragua | now lifted |
| Nigeria | |
| Norway | A number of main lines were in the 19th century built with 1067 mm, later rebuilt. Also some secondary railways. One is operated (about 8 km) as museum railway, the Setesdalsbanen. |
| Russia | Sakhalin Island |
| South Africa | |
| Sudan | |
| Sweden | several during the 19th century, now all closed |
| Taiwan | Taiwan Railway Administration system |
| Tanzania | TAZARA only |
| USA | former Los Angeles Railway only |
| Zambia | |
| Zimbabwe | National Railways of Zimbabwe |
| 1055 mm | 3 ft 5in | Algeria | |
| 1050 mm | 3 ft 5in | Jordan | Hejaz railway |
| Syria |
| Gauge | Country | Notes |
|---|
| Metric | Imperial |
|---|
| 1009 mm | 3 ft 3in | Bulgaria | Most of tramways in Sofia, except for two lines with normal gauge |
| 1000 mm | 3 ft 3in | Argentina | Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano, now Belgrano Cargas, Tren de las Nubes |
| Bangladesh | |
| Benin | |
| Brazil | |
| Bolivia | All Railway Lines |
| Burkina Faso | |
| Burma | |
| Cambodia | |
| Cameroon | |
| Chile | Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado, Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia |
| China | |
| Denmark | A few local railways. None remains |
| France | Historically used in many local and regional railways, only a few of which remain today. Includes Saint-Gervais-Vallorcine Line operated by SNCF. |
| Germany | common on local railways "Kleinbahnen". Very few left in operation |
| Greece | mainly in the Peloponnese |
| India | |
| Ivory Coast | |
| Iraq | |
| Kenya | |
| Laos | |
| Malaysia | |
| Mali | |
| Norway | Thamshavnbanen (heritage) and the Trondheim Tramway |
| Pakistan | |
| Poland | |
| Portugal | |
| Senegal | |
| Slovakia | gauge of Bratislava trams and also of mountain railroad and cogwheel railroad in the area of High Tatras |
| Spain | |
| Switzerland | nearly all narrow-gauge railways: suburban railways, mountain railways, rack railways, some long-distance railways and trams |
| Tanzania | except for TAZARA |
| Thailand | |
| Tunisia | |
| Uganda | |
| Vietnam | |
| 950 mm | 3 ft 1in | Italy | some regional railways |
| Eritrea | |
| 914 mm | 3 ft | Canada | White Pass and Yukon Railroad, Narrow gauge Canada |
| Colombia | Colombian Railways |
| El Salvador | |
| Guatemala | Rail transport in Guatemala FerrovÃas Guatemala |
| Haiti | One of two track gauges known to be used in Haiti |
| Ireland | County Donegal Railways Joint Committee (Closed - Part preserved),Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway (Closed), Cavan & Leitrim Railway (Closed - part preserved), West Clare Railway (Closed - part preserved), Ballycastle Railway (Closed), Giant's Causeway Tramway (Closed - part preserved), Ballymena & Larne Railway (Closed), Bord Na Mona - extensive industrial railway network |
| Isle of Man | Manx Electric Railway and Isle of Man Railway |
| Peru | Huancayo - Huancavelica, Being converted to standard gauge, see Railroad Development Corporation, Cusco - Machu Picchu, Cusco - Machu Picchu RUTA CUSCO - MACHU PICCHU and Ferrocarril Central Andino |
| Spain | Palma-Soller-Puerto de Soller line (Balearic Islands) |
| USA | in Colorado) Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad and the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad; in California the Disneyland Railroad, the Ghost Town & Calico Railway and the West Side Lumber Company railway; in Florida the Walt Disney World Railroad |
| 900 mm | 2 ft 11in | Austria | Linz tramways |
| Poland | Cracow tramways (re-gauged in 1953)PortugalLisboa tramway |
| 891 mm | 2 ft 11in (3 Swedish feet) | Sweden | Many 891 mm lines were built during 19th and early 20th century by private companies. The state railroad company SJ always used 1435 mm gauge during construction of its own railway lines. SJ later bought most of Sweden’s private railroad companies. Some have been converted to 1435 mm. Of all 891 mm lines that existed, now only the Roslagsbanan (a commuter line going north-east from Stockholm) uses this gauge, and a number of museum railways. |
| 825 mm | 2 ft 8in | United Kingdom | Volk's Electric Railway |
| 800 mm | 2 ft 7in | Switzerland | Numerous rack and mountain railways |
| Wales | Snowdon Mountain Railway |
| 785 mm | 2 ft 6in | Poland | |
| 762 mm | 2 ft 6 in | Australia | Victorian narrow gauge lines including Puffing Billy tourist railway east of Melbourne |
| Brazil | Estrada de Ferro Oeste de Minas in Minas Gerais state, now operating only a small section between São João del Rey and Tiradentes) |
| Chile | Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (now ) |
| Haiti | One of two track gauges known to be used in Haiti |
| India | |
| Japan | Kintetsu Utsube Line, Kintetsu Hachioji Line, Kurobe Gorge Railway, Sangi Railway Hokusei Line |
| Sierra Leone | |
| Taiwan | Alishan Forest Railway |
| USA | Omaha Zoo Railroad, logging railways in California |
| United Kingdom | Alford and Sutton Tramway, Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway, Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, Almond Valley Light Railway, Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, Great Whipsnade Railway |
| 760 mm | 2 ft 5in | Austria | Lijst van spoorwijdten |
| Bulgaria | Few railways, of which only Septemvri - Dobrinishte remains |
| Haiti | Most sources claims, besides the wider gauge of 1067 mm, the narrower of two gauges being used was 762 mm, but few others (CIA) use 760 mm on their documents. |
| 750 mm | 2 ft 5in | Argentina | Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano, see 1969-1970 edition of ''JANE'S WORLD RAILWAYS'' (now probably ?) |
| Ecuador | See 1969-1970 edition of ''JANE'S WORLD RAILWAYS'' |
| Greece | Rack railway between Diakopto - Kalavryta at northern Peloponnesos |
| Poland | |
| Russia | |
| Switzerland | |
| Norway | Only 1 heritage railway left |
| 686 mm | 2 ft 3 in | Wales | Talyllyn Railway, Corris Railway, Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway |
| Scotland | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway |
| 610 mm | 2 ft | Australia | Queensland: extensive network of sugar cane tramways |
| India | Darjeeling Himalayan Railway |
| South Africa | Port Elizabeth to Avontuur (284 km) and Port Shepstone to Harding (122 km) |
| United Kingdom | Many lines |
| USA | Billerica to Bedford, Massachusetts; Boothbay Harbor, Maine supports a twenty four-inch narrow gauge railroad museum; "C.P. Huntingdon" commercially manufactured 24" park train rides exist in Roswell, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona |
| 600 mm | 1 ft 11in | Brazil | Estrada de Ferro Perus-Pirapora (abandoned) |
| Corsica | Chemins de Fer du Calvados |
| France | |
| Greece | Mt. Pelion railway |
| Poland | |
| Sweden | once several, one remaining near Munkedal) |
| Wales | Ffestiniog Railway, Welsh Highland Railway |
| 578 mm | 1 ft 10in | Wales | Penrhyn Quarry Railway |
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