List of track gauges
This list is intended to provide information on the different track gauges, which are found in rail traffic.
Usually specified on straight track as track width of the inner distance of the rail tracks. It measures the minimum dimension between the rail heads in the range between SO ( top of rail ) and 14 mm lower. Exceptions are narrow gauge railways (0-10 mm) and trams (0-9 mm below SO). However, since certain tracks, especially the French State Railways, the point of support measure, there may be variances. Through the Technical Unity of Railways of the vehicle crossing is easily to France despite different definition.
But vehicles of the same gauge can not necessarily run on the different routes because of the track width and the shape of the wheel flanges plays a role. This is especially the thickness of the flange crucial and which depend on inner wheel clearance, which may lie only in a narrow range, so that a reliable guidance is possible in frogs and check rails of turnouts and crossings.
In addition to gauge the various Fahrzeugumgrenzungsprofile prevent a permissive use, but with a smaller track width does not necessarily mean a narrower gauge.
Most gauges were originally set in feet & inches ( usually in the international ( English ) inch format ) and converted to mm.
- Main gauges of a country are shown in bold type
- Former track widths are shown in italics ( may mean that the web with a different gauge is still in operation)
Gauges in the model construction
For gauges of a non- human -transporting railway system, see
- Scales of model railroad
- Garden railway (Model railway )
Gauges up to 199 mm
Note: English Dimensions 1 inch = 25.4 mm, 1 foot = 12 inches = 304.8 mm
Track widths 200 to 299 mm
Track widths 300-399 mm
Northern Ireland: Belfast only Bellevue Park Railway ( to 1950 )
Track widths 400-499 mm
Track widths 500-599 mm
Track widths 600-699 mm
Track widths 700-799 mm
Main areas of distribution: worldwide Main applications: branch lines, forest and industrial railways
Track widths 800-899 mm
Track widths 900-999 mm
Track widths 1000-1099 mm
Track widths 1100-1199 mm
Track widths 1200-1299 mm
Wales: Padarn Railway, Saundersfoot Railway (1829-1939)
Track widths 1300-1399 mm
Track widths 1400-1499 mm
Track widths 1500-1599 mm
- Russia: Mamonowo ( Heiligenbeil ) - limit - Braniewo ( Brown Mountain ) - Elbląg ( Elbing ) ( 61.6 km )
- Bagrationowsk ( Prussian Eylau ) - limit - Bartoszyce ( Bartenstein ) ( three-rail ) ( ~ 14 km )
- Schelesnodoroschny ( Kaliningrad ) ( Gerdauen ) - Anielin Gradowo ( ~ 8 km )
- Grodno - border - Kuźnica ( województwo podlaskie ) - Sokółka - Machnacz ( województwo podlaskie ) WSCH ( 35.5 km )
- Brzostowica - border - Zubki (5,6 km, three-rail )
- Świsłocz ( obwód grodzieński ) - limit - Wiącków (12,8 km )
- Czeremcha - border - Terespol (2,4 km )
- Brześć (Brest) - limit - Terespol Kobylany (7.5 miles)
- Jagodzin ( obwód Volynsky ) - limit - Chelm (25,6 km )
- Łudzin - border - Hrubieszów - Slawkow ( 394.6 km ) Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa (since 1979)
- Rawa Ruska - border - Werchrata - Horyniec -Zdrój ( Kaplisze ) ( 22.5 km )
- Lviv - Mościska - border - Przemysl (13,9 km )