3 ft gauge railways

Track gauge
By transport mode
Tram · Rapid transit
Miniature · Scale model
By size (list)
Minimum
  Fifteen inch 381 mm (15 in)
Narrow
  600 mm,
Two foot		 597 mm
600 mm
603 mm
610 mm		 (1 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
(1 ft 11 5⁄8 in)
(1 ft 11 3⁄4 in)
(2 ft)
  750 mm,
Bosnian,
Two foot six inch,
800 mm		 750 mm
760 mm
762 mm
800 mm		 (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
(2 ft 5 15⁄16 in)
(2 ft 6 in)
(2 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
  Swedish three foot,
900 mm,
Three foot		 891 mm
900 mm
914 mm		 (2 ft11 3⁄32 in)
(2 ft 11 7⁄16)
(3 ft)
  Metre 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
  Three foot six inch,
Cape, CAP, Kyōki		 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
  Four foot six inch 1,372 mm (4 ft 6 in)
  Standard 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Broad
  Russian,
Five foot		 1,520 mm
1,524 mm		 (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in)
(5 ft)
  Irish 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
  Iberian 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 21⁄32 in)
  Indian 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
  Six foot 1,829 mm (6 ft)
  Brunel 2,140 mm (7 ft 1⁄4 in)
Change of gauge
Break-of-gauge · Dual gauge ·
Conversion (list) · Bogie exchange · Variable gauge
By location
North America · South America · Europe
Passengers riding on the defunct Klondike Mines Railway in 1909.
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). 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 (914 mm) gauge, and it was the dominant gauge on the Isle of Man, the "Manx Standard Gauge." Modern three foot gauge railways are most commonly found in isolated mountainous areas or 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 (USA), Aristo-Craft Trains (USA), Bachmann Industries (Hong Kong), Delton Locomotive Works (USA), LGB (Germany),[1] and PIKO (Germany).

Installations

Country/territory Railway
Australia
Belize
Brazil
Canada
Colombia
Cuba
El Salvador
France
Germany
  • Santa Fé Express (located in Fort Fun Abenteuerland) (operating)
  • Trams in Chemnitz (converted to 925 mm (3 ft 13⁄32 in) gauge, then converted to standard gauge) (operating)
Guatemala
Guyana
Main article: Transport in Guyana
Honduras
Hong Kong
Ireland
Iraq
  • Al Zawra’a Dream Park[3][4] (operating)
Isle of Man
Japan
  • Saidaiji Railway (defunct)
Kuwait
Mexico
  • Parque Héroes Mexicanos[5][6] (operating)
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Peru
Spain

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
United States

See also

References

  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)
  5. ↑ Surviving Steam Locomotives in Aguascalientes
  6. ↑ Parque Héroes Mexicanos - official website (in Spanish)
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