380 mm | England | Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch: miniature passenge carrying railway. |
457 mm | England | Industrial railway in Crewe. Equal to 1 foot 5 inches (english). |
500 mm | All the world | Industrial and military railways. |
520 mm | Sweden | Industrial line at Sandvikens Järnverk. |
600 mm | Sweden, Wales, Namibia, all over the world | "Decauville" gauge. Military and industrial railways. In Wales, among others, the Ffestiniog Railway. In Namibia converted to 1067 mm after WW2. |
610 mm | India, All the world | |
650 mm | Marokko | |
686 mm | British Commonwealth | Equal to 2 feet 3 inches (english). |
693 mm | Sweden | Industrial line at Kvarnsvedens Pappersbruk. |
700 mm | All the world | Industrial and military railways. |
750 mm | The former Soviet Union, Argentina, all the world. | Widely used narrow gauge, also military and industrial lines. In Argentina the Rio Turbio mining railway. |
760 mm | Bosnia, Austria, India, Cuba | "Bosnian" gauge. Widely used in the former Austrian-Hungarian empire. |
762 mm | India, South-Africa, Cuba | In South Africa widened to 1067 mm. |
785 mm | Poland, Eastern Europe | Various short lines. |
791 mm | Denmark | Faxe Railway |
800 mm | Switzerland, Sweden | E.g. the Wengernalpbahn |
802 mm | Sweden | E.g. the Bredsjö-Degerfors line. |
838 mm | British Commonwealth | Equal to 2 feet 9 inches (english). |
880 mm | Norway | Industrial line at Sundland Torvstrofabrikk. |
891 mm | Sweden | Equal to 3 feet (swedish). |
900 mm | All the world | Industrial lines. |
914 mm | New Zealand, Isle of Man, USA, Cuba, All the world | Equal to 3 feet (english). In the USA, among others, the D&RGW. |
915 mm | Peru | |
950 mm | Eritrea, Italy | "Standard" narrow gauge in Italy, who ruled Eritrea at one time. |
991 mm | British Commonwealth | Equal to 3 feet 3 inches (english). |
1000 mm | Switzerland, India, Africa, Vietnam | Widely used narrow gauge, all over the world. Equal to 3 feet 3 3/8 inches (english). |
1050 mm | Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia | E.g. the Mecca Railway, destroyed by Lawrence of Arabia south of Amman, Jordan. |
1055 mm | French colonies | |
1065 mm | South Africa | After 1990, the Spoornet (South African Railways) have standardized this gauge, replacing 1067 mm. |
1067 mm | South Africa, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, Indonesia, Austr. (Queensland and W. Australia) | "Kapp-gauge" |
1093 mm | Sweden | E.g. the Köping-Uttersberg Railway and the industrial line Surahammar -Lisjö. |
1099 mm | Sweden | |
1100 mm | Belgium | The railway Antwerp-Ghent until 1896, then converted to standard gauge. |
1101 mm | Sweden | Fryckstad Clara Elfs Railway. Equal to 3 feet 8 1/2 inch (swedish). |
1106 mm | Austria | The horse railway Budweis (now Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic) - Linz (200 km long). Converted to standard gauge. |
1188 mm | Sweden | Equal to 4 feet (swedish). |
1219 mm | Sweden | Equal to 4 feet (english). |
1422 mm | England | The gauge George Stephenson started out with: 4 feet 8 inches (english). He quickly discovered that things ran better if he added another half an inch to the gauge. |
1431 mm | Sweden | The Stockholm Underground Railway was originally built to this gauge. Later additions and changes have been built to standard gauge. |
1432 mm | Europe, Japan | Standard gauge turned out to be on the wide side for high speed railways. So 3 mm were pinched off. |
1435 mm | All the world, with exeptions | "Standard" gauge. (4 feet 8 1/2 inches, english) |
1440 mm | Belgium, France | Converted to standard gauge. |
1473 mm | USA | Camden & Amboy, NJ & Ohio, both converted to standard gauge. |
1524 mm | The former Soviet Union, China, Finland, USA, Poland | In the USA standard in the South until1886. The first transcontinental railway in the USA (UP / SP) was to be built to this gauge, but this was reconsidered before construction started. In Poland converted to standard gauge in 1918. |
1600 mm | Ireland, Australia (South Austr., Victoria) Bayern | "Irish" gauge. In Bavaria (Germany) converted to standard gauge before 1870. |
1672 mm | Spain | Later converted to 1676 mm. |
1676 mm | Spain, India, Canada, Portugal | In Canada (and a line across the border to Portland, Maine, USA) until 1870, then converted to standard gauge. |
1814 mm | Russia, USA | In Russia converted to 1524 mm. In the USA (New York to St. Louis, Erie and others) 1865 - 1871, then converted to standard gauge. |
1829 mm | USA | |
1940 mm | The Netherlands | Converted to standard gauge. |
2000 mm | Germany | Planned by Hitler's "Third Reich" during WW2 as a super railway with bi-level rolling stock, first between Berlin and Munich. Construction never got under way. |
2134 mm | England | Great Western Railway (or "God's Wonderful Railway" as it was called by some). Only converted to standard gauge in 1892. |
2440 mm | Oregon | Logging railways during the 1880s. |