600 mm gauge railways in Germany

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


Track gauge
By transport mode
By size (list)
Graphic list of track gauges

Minimum
  Minimum
  Fifteen inch 381 mm (15 in)

Narrow
 
  • 600 mm
  • 610 mm
  • 686 mm
  • (1 ft 11+58 in)
  • (2 ft)
  • (2 ft 3 in)
 
  • 750 mm
  • 760 mm
  • 762 mm
  • (2 ft 5+12 in)
  • (2 ft 5+1516 in)
  • (2 ft 6 in)
 
  • 891 mm
  • 900 mm
  • 914 mm
  • 950 mm
  • (2 ft 11+332 in)
  • (2 ft 11+716 in)
  • (3 ft)
  • (3 ft1+1332 in)
  Metre 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in)
  Three foot six inch 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
  Four foot 1,219 mm (4 ft 0 in)
  Four foot six inch 1,372 mm (4 ft 6 in)
  1432 mm 1,432 mm (4 ft 8+38 in)

  Standard 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in)

Broad
 
  • 1,445 mm
  • 1,450 mm
  • (4 ft 8+78 in)
  • (4 ft 9+332 in)
  Leipzig gauge 1,458 mm (4 ft 9+1332 in)
  Toronto gauge 1,495 mm (4 ft 10+78 in)
 
  • 1,520 mm
  • 1,524 mm
  • (4 ft 11+2732 in)
  • (5 ft)
 
  • 1,581 mm
  • 1,588 mm
  • 1,600 mm
  • (5 ft 2+14 in)
  • (5 ft 2+12 in)
  • (5 ft 3 in)
  Baltimore gauge 1,638 mm (5 ft 4+12 in)
 
  • 1,668 mm
  • 1,676 mm
  • (5 ft 5+2132 in)
  • (5 ft 6 in)
  Six foot 1,829 mm (6 ft)
  Brunel 2,140 mm (7 ft 14 in)
Change of gauge
By location
World map, rail gauge by region

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.

Railways

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
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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