2 ft gauge railways in Australia

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
An example of a typical sugar cane railway in Queensland.

A list of 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railways in Australia.

Installations

State/territory Railway
New South Wales
  • Bulahdelah Logging Railway[1] (operational status unknown)
  • Cataract Dam construction railway; 8.8 km (5.5 mi), (defunct)
  • Marsden Weir Steam Museum[1] (defunct)
  • Megalong Valley Tourist Railway[1] (defunct)
  • Melaleuca Station, Chinderah[1] (defunct)
  • Menangle Narrow Gauge Railway[1] (operating)
  • Timbertown Heritage Railway (located in Timbertown) (operating)
Queensland
  • Durundur Railway[1] (operating)
  • Geraldton Shire Tramway[3] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway)
  • Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway[3] (owned by Queensland Rail) (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway)
  • Irvinebank Tramway[3] (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway)
  • Mapleton Tramway[3] (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway)
  • Mourilyan Harbour Tramway[3] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway)
  • Stannary Hills Tramway[3] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway)
South Australia
  • Cobdogla Irrigation Museum[5] (operating)
Tasmania
  • Comstock Tramway, Mount Lyell[6] (defunct)
  • Comstock Tramway, Zeehan[3] (defunct)
  • Magnet Tramway[3] (defunct)
  • Mount Lyell Quarry Railway (defunct)
  • Mount Lyell Underground Railway (defunct)
  • Redwater Creek Steam and Heritage Society[1] (operating)
  • Zeehan & North East Dundas[3] (defunct)
Victoria
  • Alexandra Timber Tramway[1] (operating)
  • Cheetham Salt Works[7] (defunct)
  • Coal Creek Bush Tramway[1] (operating)
  • Kerrisdale Mountain Railway[1] (operating)
  • Red Cliffs Historical Steam Railway[1] (operating)
  • Rubicon Lumber and Tramway Company[8] (defunct)
Western Australia
  • Roebourne and Cossack tramway[9] (defunct)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Steam in Australia, 2013
  2. ↑ Australian Sugar Cane Railway - official website
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 World Wide Listing of Two foot, 1' 11 1/2", 600 mm (60cm) & 610mm Railroads (from archive.org) - Australia
  4. ↑ Woodford Railway - official website
  5. ↑ Cobdogla Irrigation Museum
  6. ↑ "LYELL.". Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Hobart, Tas. : 1890 - 1922) (Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 22 November 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  7. ↑ Alexandra Timber Tramway - Day's Tractor ex Cheetham Salt
  8. ↑ Alexandra Timber Tramway - Historical background
  9. ↑ Roebourne and Cossack tramway

External links

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