800 mm gauge railways

Track gauge
By transport mode
By size (list)
Graphic list of track gauges
  Minimum
  Fifteen inch 381 mm (15 in)
  Narrow
  600 mm 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in)
Two foot 610 mm (2 ft)
Two foot three inch 686 mm (2 ft 3 in)
  750 mm 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Bosnian gauge 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in)
Two foot six inch 762 mm (2 ft 6 in)
  Swedish three foot 891 mm (2 ft 11+3⁄32 in)
900 mm 900 mm (2 ft 11+7⁄16 in)
Three foot 914 mm (3 ft)
Italian metre 950 mm (3 ft1+13⁄32 in)
  Metre 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
  Three foot six inch 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
  Four foot 1,219 mm (4 ft)
  Four foot six inch 1,372 mm (4 ft 6 in)
  1432 mm 1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3⁄8 in)
  Standard 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
  Broad
  Italian broad gauge 1,445 mm (4 ft 8+7⁄8 in)
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 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)
Five foot 1,524 mm (5 ft)
  Pennsylvania gauge 1,581 mm (5 ft 2+1⁄4 in)
Pennsylvania gauge 1,588 mm (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Five foot three inch 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
  Baltimore gauge 1,638 mm (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
  Iberian gauge 1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in)
Five foot six inch 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
  Six foot 1,829 mm (6 ft)
  Brunel 2,140 mm (7 ft 1⁄4 in)
  Breitspurbahn 3,000 mm (9 ft 101⁄8 in)
Change of gauge
By location
World map, rail gauge by region

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

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
Japan
Norway
Poland
Romania
Switzerland
United Kingdom

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.