A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in).Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) and 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in).. Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structure gauges, and lighter rails, they can be less costly to build, equip, and ...

British industrial narrow-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man that were primarily built to serve one or more industries. Some offered passenger services for employees or workmen, but they did not run public passenger trains. They are categorized by the primary industry they served.

The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (German: Harzer Schmalspurbahnen or HSB) is a railway company that operates a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge network in the Harz mountains, in central Germany (formerly East Germany).The company was formed after the Second World War as a merger of two earlier companies. It owns about 140 kilometres (86 miles) of track, …

During the period known as "the Battle of the gauges", Stephenson's standard gauge was commonly known as "narrow gauge", while Brunel's railway's 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) gauge was termed "broad gauge". Many narrow gauge railways were built in mountainous regions such as Wales, the Rocky Mountains of North America, Central Europe and South ...

History. Operating out of the former Portland Company Marine Complex, the organization was founded in 1993 and continues to operate as of 2019.The collection consists of passenger and freight equipment, as well as artifacts from the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railways that ran in the state of Maine in the late 19th century and early 20th century.. The organization operates a …

Polskie Koleje Państwowe S.A. (PKP S.A.; English: Polish State Railways, Inc.) is the dominant railway operator in Poland. The company was founded when the former Polskie Koleje Państwowe state-owned enterprise was divided into several units based on the need for separation between infrastructure management and transport operations. PKP S.A. is the …

Gauge Livery Notes N451 City of Portland: 85-1219 D77/78 130 20 September 1985 V/Line Passenger 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge Purple/Yellow 'PTV' N452 Rural City of Wodonga: 85-1220 D77/78 115 10 October 1985 V/Line Passenger 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge Purple/Yellow 'PTV' N453 City of Albury: 85-1221 D77/78 130 1 November 1985

In Shropshire, the gauge was usually narrow, to enable the wagons to be taken underground in drift mines. ... The railways moved towards standardisation on a softwood sleeper preserved by pressure injection of creosote, measuring 8 ft 6in (2 591 mm) long by 10in (254mm) by 5in (127mm). Chairs were secured to the sleepers by trenails (steel ...

Indian Railways, abgekürzt IR, ... In Indien werden nur Spurweiten, die kleiner als ein Meter sind, mit Schmalspur (abgekürzt NG für englisch Narrow Gauge) bezeichnet. Es werden zwei verschiedene Spurweiten verwendet, die überall dort zum Einsatz kamen, wo entweder der Verkehr so gering war oder das Gelände zu schwierig war, um eine ...

He had a different political vision for the railways, seeing them as a way of stimulating the internal growth of Greece and proposed a 417 kilometres (259 mi) narrow-gauge (1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in)) system encircling the northern Peloponnese, with a separate system in Thessaly; linking the port of Volos with the town of Kalambaka on the ...