600 mm gauge railways in Germany

List of German 600mm narrow-gauge railways
Track gauge
By transport mode
By size (list)
Graphic list of track gauges
  Minimum
  Fifteen inch 381 mm (15 in)
  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 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
  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
By location
World map, rail gauge by region
A diesel locomotive and flat wagon at Eiswoog Halt on the Stumpfwald Railway in Rhineland-Palatinate.

A list of 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) narrow-gauge railways in Germany.

Germany had extensive 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) installations which were used as a common-carrier railway, industrial, mining, peat, agricultural and hospital railways.

In addition, park and children's railways were constructed.

During both World Wars, extensive military railways were constructed, the so-called trench railways and Heeresfeldbahnen.

Railways

State Installations
Baden-Württemberg
  • Feldbahn Rechtenstein [de]; 0.7 km, operating
  • Kinderstraßenbahn Rumpelstilzchen [de]; 0.2 km, operating
  • Torfbahn im Wurzacher Ried [de]; 1.5 km, a peat Feldbahn, operating
  • Schlossgartenbahn Karlsruhe [de]; 2.7 km, a park railway, operating
  • Wiesloch Feldbahn and Industrial Museum; ~1.2 km, open-air museum, operating
Bavaria
  • Neuhauser Bockerlbahn [de]; 12 km, defunct
  • Reuth–Friedenfels line [de]; 6.6 km, defunct
  • Sandbahn Pleinfeld [de]; 2 km, defunct
  • Spiegelau Forest Railway; 100 km, defunct
  • Zwieselauer Waldbahn; 14.5 km, defunct
Berlin
  • Berliner Parkeisenbahn; 7.50 km, operating
  • Britzer Museumsbahn [de]; 5.0 km, operating
Brandenburg
  • Cottbuser Parkeisenbahn [de]; 3.20 km, operating
Hesse
  • Bad Orber Kleinbahn; former standard-gauge railway, partly relaid as a museum railway Feldbahn, operating
  • Bad Schwalbacher Kurbahn [de]; 1.6 km, operating
  • Bebra narrow gauge railway museum; operating
  • Feld- und Grubenbahnmuseum Fortuna [de]; 2.5 km, operating
  • Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum [de]; 1.5 km, operating
  • Grubenbahnen Messel [de]; 1.5 km, defunct
  • Industriebahn Roßdorf [de]; 4 km, defunct
  • Lindelbachbahn [de]; 4.4 km, defunct
  • Palmen-Express [de]; operating
  • Wächtersbach–Bad Orb line [de]; 6.5 km, operating
Lower Saxony
  • Burgsittensen Moor Railway; operating
  • Feldbahn Büsenbachtal [de]; 0.9 km, Feldbahn, defunct
  • Feldbahnmuseum Hildesheim [de]; operating
  • Inselbahn Baltrum [de]; 0.6 km, goods traffic from 1949 to 1985, defunct
  • Weetzen–Bredenbecker Kalkwerke [de]; 6.9 km, defunct
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Anklam-Lassaner Kleinbahn [de]; 32.6 km, defunct
  • Mecklenburg-Pommersche Schmalspurbahn [de]; 250 km, defunct
  • Pioniereisenbahn Prerow [de]; 2 km, defunct
North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth; 1.5 km, operating
  • Feldbahn Schermbeck [de]; defunct
  • Feldbahnmuseum Oekoven [de]; 1 km, operating
  • Grugabahn [de]; 3.3 km, operating
  • Kleinbahn im Rheinpark [de]; 2 km, operating
  • Kleinbahn im Westfalenpark [de]; 2.7 km, operating
  • Wallückebahn [de]; 17 km, defunct
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
  • Parkeisenbahn Saarbrücken [de]; 2 km, operating
Saxony
  • Görlitzer Oldtimer Parkeisenbahn [de]; a park railway, operating
  • Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz; a park railway, operating
  • Parkeisenbahn Plauen [de]; 1 km, a park railway, operating
  • Sächsisches Schmalspurbahn-Museum Rittersgrün [de]; a park railway, operating
  • Waldeisenbahn Muskau; 50 km, a forest railway, part operating
  • Waldheim–Kriebethal line [de]; regauged to standard gauge, defunct
Saxony-Anhalt
  • Feldbahn des Sodawerkes Staßfurt [de]; 2 km, operating
  • Parkeisenbahn Peißnitzexpress Halle [de]; operating
  • Pferdebahn Patzetz–Breitenhagen [de]; horse-drawn railway, 11.5 km, defunct
  • Pioniereisenbahn Magdeburg [de]; 2.2 km, defunct
  • Rimpau-Bahn [de]; 7 km, Feldbahn, defunct
  • Strube-Bahn [de]; Feldbahn, a part survives as the Museumsfeldbahn Schlanstedt, operating
Schleswig-Holstein
  • Buchhorster Waldbahn [de]; 6 km, operating
  • Laboe ammunition depot Feldbahn [de]; 28 km, defunct
  • Halligbahn Lüttmoorsiel–Nordstrandischmoor; 3.5 km, operating
  • Malente-Gremsmühlen–Lütjenburg line [de]; 17 km, converted to standard gauge, operating
Thuringia
  • Feldbahn Brotterode–Wernshausen [de]; 11.5 km, defunct
  • Parkeisenbahn Gera [de]; 0.8 km, operating
  • Steinbacher Bergwerksbahn [de]; 6 km, defunct

See also

References

  • v
  • t
  • e
Minimum-gauge
Minimum-gauge railways
  • 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 articlesGauge differencesTransport modeCategories
  • by country
  • by imperial units
  • by metric units
  • by name
  • lists of track gauges