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Railway track gauge (762 mm)
The Barbados Railway .
The Chinese Jiayang Coal Railway .
Alishan Forest Railway geared Shay locomotive in Taiwan .
2 ft 6 in (762 mm ) gauge railways are narrow gauge railways with track gauge of 2 ft 6 in (762 mm ). This type of rail was promoted especially in the colonies of the British Empire during the second half of the nineteenth century by Thomas Hall and Everard Calthrop .
Several Bosnian-gauge railways with 760 mm (2 ft 5+ 15 ⁄16 in ) are found in south-eastern Europe. 760 mm (29.92 in) is well within tolerances of 762 mm (30.00 in).
Minimum-gauge Minimum-gauge railways Narrow gauge
2 foot and 600 mm
2 ft 3 in (686 mm )
750 mm (2 ft 5+ 1 ⁄2 in )
760 mm (2 ft 5+ 15 ⁄16 in )
2 ft 6 in (762 mm )
800 mm (2 ft 7+ 1 ⁄2 in )
891 mm (2 ft 11+ 3 ⁄32 in ) Swedish three foot
900 mm (2 ft 11+ 7 ⁄16 in )
3 ft (914 mm )
950 mm (3 ft 1+ 3 ⁄8 in ) Italian metre gauge
1,000 mm (3 ft 3+ 3 ⁄8 in ) metre gauge
1,050 mm (3 ft 5+ 11 ⁄32 in ),
1,055 mm (3 ft 5+ 1 ⁄2 in ),
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm )
1,093 mm (3 ft 7 in ),
1,100 mm (3 ft 7+ 5 ⁄16 in ),
1,200 mm (3 ft 11+ 1 ⁄4 in )
4 ft (1,219 mm )
4 ft 1 in (1,245 mm ), Middleton Railway
4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm ), Scotch gauge
4 ft 6+ 1 ⁄2 in (1,384 mm ), Scotch gauge
4 ft 7+ 3 ⁄4 in (1,416 mm )
4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm ), almost standard gauge
4 ft 8+ 1 ⁄4 in (1,429 mm )
1,432 mm (4 ft 8+ 3 ⁄8 in )
Standard gauge Broad gauge
1,440 mm (4 ft 8+ 11 ⁄16 in )
1,445 mm (4 ft 8+ 7 ⁄8 in )
1,450 mm (4 ft 9+ 3 ⁄32 in )
4 ft 9+ 3 ⁄8 in (1,457 mm )
1,458 mm (4 ft 9+ 13 ⁄32 in )
4 ft 10+ 7 ⁄8 in (1,495 mm ), Toronto gauge
5 ft / 1,524 mm and 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+ 27 ⁄32 in ), Russian gauge.
5 ft 2+ 1 ⁄4 in / 1,581 mm and 5 ft 2+ 1 ⁄2 in / 1,588 mm , Pennsylvania gauge
5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm ), Irish gauge
5 ft 4+ 1 ⁄2 in (1,638 mm ), Baltimore gauge
1,668 mm (5 ft 5+ 21 ⁄32 in ), Iberian gauge
5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm ), Indian gauge
1,945 mm (6 ft 4+ 9 ⁄16 in ), De Arend
7 ft 1 ⁄4 in (2,140 mm ), Brunel gauge
3,000 mm (9 ft 10+ 1 ⁄8 in ), Breitspurbahn
8,200 mm (26 ft 10+ 27 ⁄32 in ), Lärchwandschrägaufzug
9,000 mm (29 ft 6+ 5 ⁄16 in ), Krasnoyarsk ship lift
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