600 mm gauge railways in Germany

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

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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.

Installations

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

Track gauge (list)

Minimum gauge	15 in (381 mm) 400 mm (15 ³⁄₄ in) 18 in (457 mm) 500 mm (19 ³⁄₄ in)

Narrow gauge	2 foot and 600 mm 750 mm (2 ft 5 ¹⁄₂ in) 760 mm (2 ft 5 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ in) Bosnian gauge 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 3 ft 6 in/1,067 mm 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm), Scotch gauge List of narrow tram track gauges

Standard gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in/1,435 mm, Stephenson gauge List of standard gauge tram tracks

Broad gauge	1445 mm gauge 1,445 mm (4 ft 8 ⁷⁄₈ in) 4 ft 10 ⁷⁄₈ in (1,495 mm), Toronto 5 ft/1,524 mm and 1520 mm, Russian gauge 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm), Irish gauge 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 ²¹⁄₃₂ in), Iberian gauge 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm), Indian gauge 7 ft ¹⁄₄ in (2,140 mm), Brunel gauge 3,000 mm (9 ft 10 ¹⁄₈ in), Breitspurbahn List of broad tram track gauges

Gauge differences	Bogie exchange Break-of-gauge Dual gauge Gauge conversion list Variable gauge

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600 mm gauge railways in Germany

Installations

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