800 mm gauge railways

800mm gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways built to a track gauge of 800 mm (2 ft 7 1⁄2 in).

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
Break-of-gauge · Dual gauge ·
Conversion (list) · Bogie exchange · Variable gauge
By location

North America · South America · Europe · Australia

Whilst this gauge is uncommon amongst adhesion railways, some of the world's best known rack railways are built to it. Six of these are in Switzerland, including the world's steepest rack line (the Pilatus Railway) and the world's longest pure rack line (the Wengernalp Railway), whilst the United Kingdom's only rack railway (the Snowdon Mountain Railway) is also to this gauge. A few funicular railways are also built to this gauge.[1][2][3][4]

Installations
Country/territory Railway
Germany
  • Ernstbahn (defunct adhesion railway)[5]
  • Museumsfeldbahn Leipzig-Lindenau (preserved adhesion railway)
  • Zahnradbahn Zuckerfabrik Schulau (defunct rack railway)
Japan
Norway
Poland
Romania
  • Waldbahn Moldovița (regauged to 760 mm (2 ft 5 15⁄16 in) in 1909)
Switzerland
United Kingdom
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See also

References
  1. Three small tank engines, Free Miner, Trafalgar and The Brothers, were built by the Lilleshall Company from 1865.[6]
  1. "World's steepest cogwheel railway". Pilatus Bahnen. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
  2. "WAB - die längste Zahnradbahn" [WAB - the longest cog railway]. Jungfraubahn. Archived from the original on 2014-06-13. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
  3. "Snowdon Mountain Railway". AboutBritain.com. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
  4. "DPB - Davos Parsenn Bahn". Funimag. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
  5. "Eisenerzbergbau in Braunfels - Die Braunfelser Ernstbahn - Geschichte einer besonderen Kleinbahn" (in German). Stadt Braunfels. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
  6. Neale, Andrew (2009). Industrial Narrow gauge album. Plateway Press. ISBN 978-1871980615.
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