600 mm gauge railways in Germany

A list of 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) narrow-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		 600 mm
610 mm		 (1 ft ​11 5⁄8 in)
(2 ft)
  750 mm
Bosnian gauge
Two foot six inch		 750 mm
760 mm
762 mm		 (2 ft ​5 1⁄2 in)
2 ft ​5 15⁄16 in
(2 ft 6 in)
  Swedish three foot
900 mm
Three foot		 891 mm
900 mm
914 mm		 (2 ft ​11 3⁄32 in)
(2 ft ​11 7⁄16 in)
(3 ft)
  Metre 1,000 mm (3 ft ​3 3⁄8 in)
  Three foot six inch 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
  Standard 1,435 mm (4 ft ​8 1⁄2 in)
Broad
  Dresden gauge 1,450 mm (4 ft ​9 3⁄32 in)
  Leipzig gauge 1,458 mm (4 ft ​9 13⁄32 in)
  Toronto gauge 1,495 mm (4 ft ​10 7⁄8 in)
  1520 mm
Five foot		 1,520 mm
1,524 mm		 (4 ft ​11 7⁄8 in)
(5 ft)
  Pennsylvania gauge
Pennsylvania gauge
Five foot three inch		 1,581 mm
1,588 mm
1,600 mm		 (5 ft ​2 1⁄4 in)
(5 ft ​2 1⁄2 in)
(5 ft 3 in)
  Baltimore gauge 1,638 mm (5 ft ​4 1⁄2 in)
  Iberian gauge
Five foot six inch		 1,668 mm
1,676 mm		 (5 ft ​5 21⁄32 in)
(5 ft 6 in)
Change of gauge
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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.

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
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, part 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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