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The Oahu Railway and Land Company was the largest narrow-gauge class-one common-carrier railway in the US (at the time of its dissolution in 1947), and the only US narrow-gauge railroad to use signals. The OR&L used Automatic Block Signals, or ABS on their double track mainline between Honolulu and Waipahu, a total of 12.9 miles (20.8 km), and ...
Europe. Australia. A narrow-gauge railway ( narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 81⁄2 in) standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm ( 1 ft 115⁄8 in) and 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ). Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structure ...
A steam locomotive of the C&TS RR. Many narrow-gauge railways were built in the United States with track gauge 3 ft ( 914 mm ). The most extensive and well known systems were the 3 ft ( 914 mm) gauge lines through the Rocky Mountain states of Colorado and New Mexico . Today a few lines survive as heritage railways and tourist attractions.
The most common narrow gauge, 891 mm ( 2 ft 113⁄32 in) (3 Swedish feet), existed only in Sweden. A smaller 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm) gauge network existed, and 600 mm ( 1 ft 115⁄8 in) gauge was used mostly by smaller, industrial railways. Still other but lesser used gauges in the country were 802 mm ( 2 ft 79⁄16 in ), 1,188 mm ( 3 ft 1025 ...
That said, the vast majority of gauge interchanges around the world (both contemporary and historic) involve at least one narrow gauge railway. So these issues commonly apply to narrow gauge railways. Even in Japan, the multiple gauges used do create problems, see Break of gauge#Japan - all of these issues involve narrow gauge railways. I don't ...
During the "gauge war" with the Great Western Railway, standard gauge was called "narrow gauge", in contrast to the Great Western's 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge. The modern use of the term "narrow gauge" for gauges less than standard did not arise for many years, until the first such locomotive-hauled passenger railway, the Ffestiniog ...
These are narrow-gauge railways that ran public passenger trains for a significant portion of their existence. In 1951 the Talyllyn Railway was the first railway in the world to be taken over and preserved by volunteers. This was the start of the heritage railway movement, which has flourished in Britain and around the world in the years since.
The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) ( reporting mark WPY) is a Canadian and U.S. Class III 3 ft ( 914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. An isolated system, it has no direct connection to any other railroad. Equipment, freight and passengers are ferried by ship through ...