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 12 in)
(1 ft 11 58 in)
(1 ft 11 34 in)
(2 ft)
  750 mm,
Bosnian,
Two foot six inch,
800 mm
750 mm
760 mm
762 mm
800 mm
(2 ft 5 12 in)
(2 ft 5 1516 in)
(2 ft 6 in)
(2 ft 7 12 in)
  Swedish three foot,
900 mm,
Three foot
891 mm
900 mm
914 mm
(2 ft11 332 in)
(2 ft 11 716)
(3 ft)
  Metre 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 38 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 12 in)

Broad
  Russian,
Five foot
1,520 mm
1,524 mm
(4 ft 11 2732 in)
(5 ft)
  Irish 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
  Iberian 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 2132 in)
  Indian 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
  Six foot 1,829 mm (6 ft)
  Brunel 2,140 mm (7 ft 14 in)
Change of gauge
Break-of-gauge · Dual gauge ·
Conversion (list) · Bogie exchange · Variable gauge
By location
North America · South America · Europe

A list of 600 mm (1 ft 11 58 in) narrow gauge railways in Germany.

Germany had extensive 600 mm (1 ft 11 58 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
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

See also

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