3 ft gauge railways

Railway track gauge (914 mm)

Track gauge

By transport mode

* Rapid transit
* Tram
* Miniature
* Scale model

By size (list)

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| Minimum
| Fifteen inch | 381 mm | (1 ft 3 in)

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| Narrow
| 600 mm | 600 mm | (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in)
Two foot | 610 mm | (2 ft)
Two foot three inch | 686 mm | (2 ft 3 in)
| 750 mm | 750 mm | (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Bosnian gauge | 760 mm | (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in)
Two foot six inch | 762 mm | (2 ft 6 in)
| Swedish three-foot | 891 mm | (2 ft 11+3⁄32 in)
900 mm | 900 mm | (2 ft 11+7⁄16 in)
Three-foot | 914 mm | (3 ft)
Italian metre | 950 mm | (3 ft 1+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)

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| Standard | 1,435 mm | (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)

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| Broad
| Italian broad gauge | 1,445 mm | (4 ft 8+7⁄8 in)
Dresden gauge | 1,450 mm | (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)
| 1520 mm | 1,520 mm | (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)
Five foot | 1,524 mm | (5 ft)
| Pennsylvania gauge | 1,581 mm | (5 ft 2+1⁄4 in)
Pennsylvania gauge | 1,588 mm | (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Five foot three inch | 1,600 mm | (5 ft 3 in)
| Baltimore gauge | 1,638 mm | (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
| Iberian gauge | 1,668 mm | (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in)
Five foot six inch | 1,676 mm | (5 ft 6 in)
| Six foot | 1,829 mm | (6 ft)
| Brunel | 2,140 mm | (7 ft 1⁄4 in)
| Breitspurbahn | 3,000 mm | (9 ft 101⁄8 in)
Change of gauge

* Bogie exchange
* Break of gauge
* Dual gauge
* Conversion
* list
* Variable gauge

By location

* North America
* South America
* Europe
* Australia

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

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).

## Railways

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Country/territory  | Railway

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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

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* Trains portal

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

## References

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1. ^ 2006 LGB Catalog
2. ^ Steamlocomotive.info - Cuba
3. ^ Steamlocomotive.info - Al Zawra’a Dream Park
4. ^ "Al Zawra'a Dream Park - official website (in Arabic)". Archived from the original on 2014-02-05. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
5. ^ "Surviving Steam Locomotives in Aguascalientes". Archived from the original on 2020-07-31. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
6. ^ "Parque Héroes Mexicanos - official website (in Spanish)". Archived from the original on 2013-09-04. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
7. ^ Llanso, Steve. "Hawaiian-Philippine 0-6-0 Steam Locomotives in [the] Philippines". SteamLocomotive.com. Sweat House Media. Retrieved 2021-03-24.

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Track gauge (list)

Minimum gauge|

* 15 in (381 mm)
* 400 mm (15+3⁄4 in)
* 16 in (406 mm)
* 18 in (457 mm)
* 19 in (483 mm)
* 500 mm (19+3⁄4 in)
* 20 in (508 mm)
* 21 in (533 mm)
* 1 ft 10 in (559 mm)

Narrow gauge|

* 2 foot and 600 mm
* 2 ft 3 in (686 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|

* 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in / 1,435 mm, Stephenson 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
* 1,945 mm (6 ft 4+9⁄16 in), De Arend
* 7 ft 1⁄4 in (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), Krasnoyarsk ship lift

List of track gauge articles|

* List of track gauges
* List of tram track gauges
* Miniature railways
* Minimum-gauge railways
* Large amusement railways

Gauge differences|

* Bogie exchange
* Break of gauge
* Dual gauge
* Gauge conversion
* list
* Variable gauge

Transport mode|

* Tram and light rail
* Rapid transit
* Miniature
* Scale model

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* lists of track gauges

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