3 ft gauge railways
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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).
Installations
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| Australia | 
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| Belize | |
| Brazil | 
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| Canada | 
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| Colombia | |
| Cuba | 
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| El Salvador | |
| France | 
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| Germany | 
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| Guatemala | |
| Guyana | |
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| Hong Kong | 
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| Ireland | |
| Iraq | 
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| Isle of Man | 
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| Japan | 
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| Kuwait | 
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| Mexico | 
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| Nauru | |
| New Caledonia | 
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| New Zealand | 
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| Peru | 
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| Spain | 
 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 3⁄8 in) metre gauge. | 
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See also
- Heritage railway
- List of track gauges
- Swedish three foot gauge railways
References
 ^ 2006 LGB Catalog[permanent dead link]
 
 ^ Steamlocomotive.info - Cuba
 
 ^ Steamlocomotive.info - Al Zawra’a Dream Park
 
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 ^ Surviving Steam Locomotives in Aguascalientes
 
 ^ Parque Héroes Mexicanos - official website (in Spanish)
 

