600 mm gauge railways in Germany explained

A list of narrow-gauge railways in Germany.

Germany had extensive installations which were used as a common-carrier railway, industrial, mining, peat, agricultural and hospital railways.

In addition, park and children's railways were constructed.

During both World Wars, extensive military railways were constructed, the so-called trench railways and Heeresfeldbahnen.

Railways

StateInstallations
Baden-Württemberg
0.7 km, operating
0.2 km, operating
1.5 km, a peat Feldbahn, operating
2.7 km, a park railway, operating
~1.2 km, open-air museum, operating
Bavaria
12 km, defunct
6.6 km, defunct
2 km, defunct
100 km, defunct
  • Zwieselauer Waldbahn
14.5 km, defunct
Berlin
  • Berliner Parkeisenbahn
7.50 km, operating
5.0 km, operating
Brandenburg
3.20 km, operating
Hesse
  • Bad Orber Kleinbahn
former standard-gauge railway, partly relaid as a museum railway Feldbahn, operating
1.6 km, operating
  • Bebra narrow gauge railway museum
operating
2.5 km, operating
1.5 km, operating
1.5 km, defunct
4 km, defunct
4.4 km, defunct
operating
6.5 km, operating
Lower Saxony
operating
0.9 km, Feldbahn, defunct
operating
0.6 km, goods traffic from 1949 to 1985, defunct
6.9 km, defunct
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
32.6 km, defunct
250 km, defunct
2 km, defunct
North Rhine-Westphalia
1.5 km, operating
defunct
1 km, operating
3.3 km, operating
2 km, operating
2.7 km, operating
17 km, defunct
Rhineland-Palatinate
operating
14.5 km, defunct
Saarland
2 km, operating
Saxony
a park railway, operating
a park railway, operating
1 km, a park railway, operating
a park railway, operating
50 km, a forest railway, part operating
regauged to standard gauge, defunct
Saxony-Anhalt
2 km, operating
operating
horse-drawn railway, 11.5 km, defunct
2.2 km, defunct
7 km, Feldbahn, defunct
Feldbahn, a part survives as the Museumsfeldbahn Schlanstedt, operating
Schleswig-Holstein
6 km, operating
28 km, defunct
3.5 km, operating
17 km, converted to standard gauge, operating
Thuringia
11.5 km, defunct
0.8 km, operating
6 km, defunct

See also