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Fintown station on the trackbed of the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee (CDR) in County Donegal




A bridge of the defunct National Railroad of Mexico in 1883




A railbus on the Ferrocarril Santa Ana near Machu Picchu




An electric tram on the Tranvía de Sóller on the Spanish island of Majorca


Three foot gauge railways have a track gauge of 3 ft (914 mm) or 1 yard. This gauge is a narrow gauge and is generally found throughout North, Central, and South America. In Ireland, many secondary and industrial lines were built to 3 ft gauge, and it is the dominant gauge on the Isle of Man, where it is known as the Manx Standard Gauge. Modern 3 ft gauge railways are most commonly found in isolated mountainous areas, on small islands, or in large-scale amusement parks and theme parks (see table below). This gauge is also popular in model railroading (particularly in G scale), and model prototypes of these railways have been made by several model train brands around the world, such as Accucraft Trains (USA), Aristo-Craft Trains (US), Bachmann Industries (Hong Kong), Delton Locomotive Works (US), LGB (Germany),[1] and PIKO (Germany).



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Railway

Australia


  • Powelltown Tramway (defunct)


Belize



Brazil



  • Colégio Regina Coeli (operating)


  • Nossa Senhora da Glória do Outeiro (operating)



Canada



  • BC Forest Discovery Centre (operating)


  • Columbia and Western Railway (defunct)


  • Kaslo and Slocan Railway (defunct)


  • Kimberley's Underground Mining Railway (operating)


  • Klondike Mines Railway (defunct)


  • North Western Coal and Navigation Company (defunct)


  • Sullivan Mine (defunct)


  • Western Development Museum Short Line (located at the Moose Jaw Western Development Museum) (operating)


  • White Pass & Yukon Route (crosses into Alaska, United States) (Historic Civil Engineering Landmark status) (operating as a heritage railway)


  • Whitehorse Waterfront Trolley (operating as a heritage streetcar)



Colombia



Cuba


  • Ferrocarril Recreacional[2] (located in Parque Lenin) (closed - park still operating)


El Salvador



France



  • Disneyland Railroad (Paris) (located in Disneyland Park (Paris)) (operating)


  • Horse-Drawn Streetcars (located in Disneyland Park (Paris)) (operating)



Germany



  • Santa Fé Express (located in Fort Fun Abenteuerland [de]) (operating)


  • Trams in Chemnitz (converted to 925 mm (3 ft 1332 in) gauge, then converted to standard gauge) (operating)



Guatemala



Guyana



Honduras



Hong Kong


  • Hong Kong Disneyland Railroad (located in Hong Kong Disneyland) (operating)


Ireland



Iraq


  • Al Zawra’a Dream Park[3][4] (operating)


Isle of Man



  • Douglas Bay Horse Tramway (operating)


  • Foxdale Railway (defunct)


  • Isle of Man Railway (operating)


  • Manx Electric Railway (operating)


  • Manx Northern Railway (defunct)


  • Milntown Railway (defunct)


  • Queen's Pier Tramway (defunct)


  • Upper Douglas Cable Tramway (defunct)



Japan



  • Jolly Trolley (located in Tokyo Disneyland) (separate 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge railway named Western River Railroad also present) (defunct - park and separate railway still operating)


  • Koiwai Farm [jp] (operating)


  • Saidaiji Railway [jp] (defunct)


  • Seikan Tunnel Tappi Shakō Line (operating)



Kuwait


  • Kuwait Entertainment City (operating)


Mexico



  • Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán (defunct)


  • Interoceanic Railway of Mexico (defunct)


  • National Railroad of Mexico (converted to standard gauge) (defunct)


  • Parque Héroes Mexicanos[5][6] (operating)


  • Tren Escénico (operating)



Nauru



New Caledonia


  • Nouméa-Païta Railway (defunct)


New Zealand


  • Dun Mountain Railway (defunct)


Peru


  • Ferrocarril Santa Ana (operating)


Spain



  • Ferrocarril de Sóller (operating)


  • Ferrocarril Tour (located in PortAventura Park) (operating)


  • Tranvía de Sóller (operating)


The Ferrocarril de Sóller and the Tranvía de Sóller are located on Majorca in the Balearic Islands. The other railways of the Majorca rail network were also 3 ft (914 mm) gauge, but with expansion and reconstruction of the network in the early 2000s, they were converted to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 38 in) metre gauge.



United Kingdom



United States




See also




  • Heritage railway

  • List of track gauges

  • Swedish three foot gauge railways



References





  1. ^ 2006 LGB Catalog[permanent dead link]


  2. ^ Steamlocomotive.info - Cuba


  3. ^ Steamlocomotive.info - Al Zawra’a Dream Park


  4. ^ "Al Zawra'a Dream Park - official website (in Arabic)". Archived from the original on 2014-02-05. Retrieved 2014-01-25..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  5. ^ Surviving Steam Locomotives in Aguascalientes


  6. ^ Parque Héroes Mexicanos - official website (in Spanish)










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