List of track gauges
Broad gauge

List of track gauges

Section Title: Broad gauge
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Gauge	Country	Notes

Metric	Imperial

1,445 mm	4 ft 8 7⁄8 in	Italy	Tramway networks in Milan, Turin and Rome; Orvieto Funicular; railway network until 1930.

Spain	Madrid Metro

1,448 mm	4 ft 9 in	England	Manchester and Leeds Railway

United States	Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad, Strasburg Rail Road (converted to standard gauge).

1,450 mm	4 ft 9 3⁄32 in	Germany	Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG, Trams in Dresden

1,458 mm	4 ft 9 13⁄32 in	Germany	Trams in Leipzig

1,473 mm	4 ft 10 in	United States	The Midwest, until after the Civil War (Ohio gauge)

1,480 mm	4 ft 10​1⁄4 in	United States and Canada	Proposed track gauge conversion from 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) to 5 ft (1,524 mm), temporal gauge would be this gauge.

1,492 mm	4 ft 10 3⁄4 in	Canada	Toronto Suburban Railway from 1891 - 1917. 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) until the end at 1931

1,495 mm	4 ft 10 7⁄8 in	Canada	Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) (subway and streetcars, excluding Scarborough RT and Eglinton Crosstown LRT)

1,520 mm	4 ft 11 27⁄32 in	Russia	Also named Russian gauge. See 5 ft and 1520 mm gauge railways & Confederate railroads in the American Civil War

1,524 mm	5 ft	Finland

1,537 mm	5 ft 1⁄2 in	England	London and Blackwall Railway 1840-49, converted to standard gauge

1,575 mm	5 ft 2 in	Spain	Ferrocarril de Langreo

United States	Columbus Ohio streetcar

1,581 mm	5 ft 2 1⁄4 in	United States	Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), Philadelphia

1,588 mm	5 ft 2 1⁄2 in	United States	Pennsylvania trolley gauge

1,600 mm	5 ft 3 in	See 5 ft 3 in gauge railways

1,613 mm	5 ft 3 1⁄2 in	United States	Sacramento Valley Railroad (1852–77)

1,638 mm	5 ft 4 1⁄2 in	United States	Baltimore, Baltimore Streetcar System (defunct) and Baltimore Streetcar Museum (operating)

1,664 mm	5 ft 5 1⁄2 in	Portugal	5 Portuguese feet Converted to 1,668 mm from 1955

1,668 mm	5 ft 5 21⁄32 in	See Iberian gauge

1,672 mm	5 ft 5 13⁄16 in	Spain	6 Castilian feet Spanish national rail network Converted to 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 21⁄32 in) Iberian gauge from 1955; The current Barcelona metro line 1 and Cercanías Málaga.

1,676 mm	5 ft 6 in	India	See 5 ft 6 in gauge railway

1,727 mm	5 ft 8 in	England	Babbacombe Cliff Railway and Fisherman's Walk Cliff Railway

1,750 mm	5 ft 8 7⁄8 in	France	Ligne de Sceaux Paris to Limours via Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, until 1891

1,800 mm	5 ft 10 7⁄8 in	Germany	Oberweißbacher Bergbahn (funicular section only)

United States	Hogwarts Express (located in Universal Orlando Resort)

1,829 mm	6 ft	India	In the 19th century, engineers considered this gauge but finally settled on 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm)

Russia	Saint Petersburg - Tsarskoe Selo Railway, 1837–1897, Proposed for the TKM World Link (Yakutsk - Fort Nelson) and onward to most of the North American destinations and some part of the Siberian destinations.

United States	Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, Erie Railroad until June 22, 1880, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad March–May 1876, Predominant gauge used by railroads along southern tier of New York State that connected to the pioneering Erie Railroad.

1,850 mm	6 ft 27⁄32 in	Canada	Falls Incline Railway in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario[gauge?]

1,880 mm	6 ft 2 in	Ireland	Ulster Railway, 1839–1846, re-gauged to 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)

Taiwan	Taipei Metro medium-capacity rubber-tired trains (with 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) rails)

Japan	SCMaglev train depots for Chuo Shinkansen.

1,945 mm	6 ft 4 9⁄16 in	Netherlands	Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij, 1839–1866

1,980 mm / 1,981 mm	6 ft 6 in	Israel	Haifa, Carmelit subway railway line - Funicular

England	North Cliff Lift, Scarborough

2,000 mm	6 ft 6 3⁄4 in	Scotland	Cairngorm Mountain Railway - Funicular

2,134 mm	7 ft	England	Original definition of Brunel's broad gauge. This rail gauge was soon changed to 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) to ease running in curves.

2,140 mm	7 ft 1⁄4 in	South Africa	East London and Table Bay harbour railways

England	Brunel's Great Western Railway until converted to standard gauge by May 1892, see Great Western Railway The "gauge war". Also, harbour railways at the Isle of Portland and Brixham

Isle of Man	Port Erin Breakwater Railway

Portugal (Azores)	Ponta Delgada and Horta harbour (using rolling stock from Holyhead harbour)

Russia	Proposed for the Moscow-Kaliningrad route (almost parallel with 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) tracks) and onward to some other destinations, eventually as far to Great Britain, France, Central Asia and North America.

Wales	Holyhead harbour railway

2,286 mm	7 ft 6 in	England	St Nicholas Cliff Lift, Scarborough

2,440 mm	8 ft	United States	Johnstown Inclined Plane, Johnstown, Pennsylvania

2,503 mm	8 ft 2​1⁄2 in	Netherlands and other	Recently proposed some of the transcontinental lines such as links from the Netherlands to North America.

2,743 mm	9 ft	Japan	Lake Biwa Canal, an inclined plane near Kyoto

United States	Knoxville Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

3,000 mm	9 ft 10 1⁄8 in	Nazi Germany	See Breitspurbahn

3,048 mm	10 ft	United States	Fort Pitt Incline, Penn Incline, Monongahela Freight Incline and Castle Shannon Incline, Pittsburgh

3,327 mm	10 ft 11 in	Scotland	Dalzell Iron and Steel Works, Motherwell, Lanarkshire.[gauge?]

5,500 mm	18 ft	England	Magnus Volk's Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway

8,200 mm	26 ft 10 27⁄32 in	Austria	Lärchwandschrägaufzug

9,000 mm	29 ft 6 5⁄16 in	Russia	The electric "ship elevator" at the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam[gauge?]

Sentence(s)

The Knoxville Incline had a track gauge of 9 ft.

final_sentence: The Knoxville Incline had a track gauge of 9 ft.