This list presents an overview of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails.
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.
Railways with a track gauge between and .
Gauge | Country | Notes | |
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Metric | Imperial | ||
1,432 mm | Hong Kong | Disneyland Resort Line, Island Line (excluding Kennedy Town Station, HKU Station, Sai Ying Pun Station), Kwun Tong Line (excluding Whampoa Station, Ho Man Tin Station), Tseung Kwan O Line, Tsuen Wan Line, Tung Chung Line [32] | |
Bucharest | Bucharest Metro | ||
See Category:Standard gauge railways | Standard gauge is defined both in metric and in imperial units. It's also the best-known gauge worldwide; 55% of the world owns this track. | ||
1,440 mm | Switzerland | St. Moritz-Corviglia funicular (upper section of 1,616 metres or 5,302 feet route-length only - lower section is gauge) |
Gauge | Country | Notes | |
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Metric | Imperial | ||
1,445 mm | Italy | Tramway networks in Milan, Turin and Rome; Orvieto Funicular; railway network until 1930. | |
Spain | Madrid Metro | ||
1,448 mm | England | Manchester and Leeds Railway | |
United States | Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad, Strasburg Rail Road (converted to standard gauge).[] | ||
1,450 mm | Germany | Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG, Trams in Dresden | |
1,458 mm | Germany | Trams in Leipzig | |
1,473 mm | United States | The Midwest, until after the Civil War (Ohio gauge) | |
1,480 mm | 4 ft 10 in | United States and Canada | Proposed track gauge conversion from to , temporal gauge would be this gauge. |
1,492 mm | Canada | Toronto Suburban Railway[33] from 1891 - 1917. until the end at 1931 | |
1,495 mm | Canada | Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) (subway and streetcars, excluding Scarborough RT and Eglinton Crosstown LRT) [33] | |
1,520 mm | Russia | Also named Russian gauge. See 5 ft and 1520 mm gauge railways & Confederate railroads in the American Civil War | |
1,524 mm | Finland | ||
1,537 mm | England | London and Blackwall Railway 1840-49, converted to standard gauge | |
1,575 mm | Spain | Ferrocarril de Langreo | |
United States | Columbus Ohio streetcar[34] | ||
1,581 mm | United States | Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA),[35]Philadelphia | |
1,588 mm | United States | Pennsylvania trolley gauge[35] | |
1,600 mm | Ireland | See 5 ft 3 in gauge railways | |
1,613 mm | United States | Sacramento Valley Railroad (1852-77) | |
1,638 mm | United States | Baltimore, Baltimore Streetcar System (defunct)[36] and Baltimore Streetcar Museum (operating) | |
1,664 mm | Portugal | Converted to from 1955[37] | |
1,668 mm | See Iberian gauge | ||
1,672 mm | Spain | Spanish national rail network Converted to from 1955;[37] The current Barcelona metro line 1 and Cercanías Málaga. | |
1,676 mm | India | See 5 ft 6 in gauge railway | |
1,727 mm | England | Babbacombe Cliff Railway and Fisherman's Walk Cliff Railway | |
1,750 mm[38] | France | Ligne de Sceaux Paris to Limours via Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, until 1891 | |
1,800 mm | Germany | Oberweißbacher Bergbahn (funicular section only)[39][40] | |
United States | Hogwarts Express (located in Universal Orlando Resort) | ||
1,829 mm | India | In the 19th century, engineers considered this gauge but finally settled on | |
Russia | Saint Petersburg - Tsarskoe Selo Railway, 1837-1897, Proposed for the TKM World Link (Yakutsk - Fort Nelson) and onward to most of the North American destinations and some part of the Siberian destinations. | ||
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 | Canada | Falls Incline Railway[41] in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario[gauge?] | |
1,880 mm | Ireland | Ulster Railway, 1839-1846, re-gauged to | |
Taiwan | Taipei Metro medium-capacity rubber-tired trains (with rails) | ||
Japan | SCMaglev train depots for Chuo Shinkansen. | ||
1,945 mm | Netherlands | Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij, 1839-1866[36] | |
1,980 mm / 1,981 mm | Israel | Haifa, Carmelit subway railway line - Funicular | |
England | North Cliff Lift, Scarborough | ||
2,000 mm | Scotland | Cairngorm Mountain Railway - Funicular | |
2,134 mm | England | Original definition of Brunel's broad gauge. This rail gauge was soon changed to [42] to ease running in curves. | |
2,140 mm | 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) | ||
Russia | Proposed for the Moscow-Kaliningrad route (almost parallel with tracks) and onward to some other destinations, eventually as far to Great Britain, France, Central Asia and North America. | ||
Wales | Holyhead harbour railway | ||
2,286 mm | England | St Nicholas Cliff Lift, Scarborough | |
2,440 mm | United States | Johnstown Inclined Plane, Johnstown, Pennsylvania | |
2,503 mm | 8 ft 2 in | Netherlands and other | Recently proposed some of the transcontinental lines such as links from the Netherlands to North America. |
2,743 mm | Japan | Lake Biwa Canal, an inclined plane near Kyoto | |
United States | Knoxville Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||
3,000 mm | Nazi Germany | See Breitspurbahn | |
3,048 mm | United States | Fort Pitt Incline, Penn Incline, Monongahela Freight Incline and Castle Shannon Incline, Pittsburgh[43] | |
3,327 mm | Scotland | Dalzell Iron and Steel Works, Motherwell, Lanarkshire.[44][gauge?] | |
5,500 mm | England | Magnus Volk's Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway[45] | |
8,200 mm | Austria | Lärchwandschrägaufzug[46] | |
Russia | The electric "ship elevator" at the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam[47][gauge?] |
In laying the rails an extra quarter of an inch was allowed on the straight, making the gauge , strictly speaking, but it was always referred to as 7 feet.
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