Explore: Narrow Gauge

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)

There were more than a thousand[citation needed] British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived

Retrieved 20 December 2015. Organ, John (2003). Swiss Narrow Gauge: featuring steam in the Alps. Narrow Gauge Branch Lines series. Midhurst, West Sussex, UK:

wide or narrow in gauge will cause derailments, especially if in excess of normal gauge-widening on curves. Given the requirement for gauge to be within

5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) gauge (standard gauge for Ireland), and to avoid the need for steam locomotives of both gauges the narrow-gauge engines were provided

narrow gauge On2 gauge – representing 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge On30 gauge – narrow gauge modeling in O Scale using H0 scale track OO gauge HO gauge

gauge was referred to as "narrow gauge" to indicate the contrast. Some smaller concerns selected other non-standard gauges: the Eastern Counties Railway

Wales Narrow Gauge Railways (NWNGR) was a railway company that planned to build a number of inter-connected 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow-gauge railways

Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway, Rowsley, Derbyshire Golden Valley Light Railway, Butterley, Derbyshire Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Irchester

The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, often abbreviated as the D&SNG, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 45