3 ft gauge railways explained

Three foot gauge railways have a track gauge of 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 gauge, and it is the dominant gauge on the Isle of Man, where it is known as the Manx Standard Gauge. Modern 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 (US), Aristo-Craft Trains (US), Bachmann Industries (Hong Kong), Delton Locomotive Works (US), LGB (Germany),^[1] and PIKO (Germany).

Railways

Country/territory	Railway
Australia	Powelltown Tramway (defunct)
Belize	See main article: Rail transport in 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 (defunct) 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	See main article: Rail transport in Colombia.
Cuba	Ferrocarril Recreacional^[2] (located in Parque Lenin) (closed - park still operating)
El Salvador	See main article: Rail transport in 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) (operating) Trams in Chemnitz (converted to gauge, then converted to standard gauge) (operating)
Guatemala	See main article: Rail transport in Guatemala.
Guyana	See main article: Railways in Guyana.
Honduras	See main article: Rail transport in Honduras.
Hong Kong	Hong Kong Disneyland Railroad (located in Hong Kong Disneyland) (operating)
Ireland	See main article: List of narrow-gauge railways in 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 gauge railway named Western River Railroad also present) (defunct - park and separate railway still operating) (operating) (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	See main article: Rail transport in Nauru.
New Caledonia	Nouméa-Païta Railway (defunct)
New Zealand	Dun Mountain Railway (defunct)
Peru	Ferrocarril Santa Ana (operating)
Philippines	Hawaiian–Philippine Company, Negros Island (operating).^[7]
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 gauge, but with expansion and reconstruction of the network in the early 2000s, they were converted to .
United Kingdom	See main article: 3 ft gauge railways in the United Kingdom.
United States	See main article: 3 ft gauge railroads in the United States.

See also

• Heritage railway
• Large amusement railways
• List of track gauges
• Swedish three foot gauge railways

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20140110174221/http://www.gbdb.info/data/expertenanleitung/LGB/Kat_02906.pdf 2006 LGB Catalog
2. http://www.steamlocomotive.info/country.cfm?which=cuba Steamlocomotive.info - Cuba
3. http://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=19838 Steamlocomotive.info - Al Zawra’a Dream Park
4. Web site: Al Zawra’a Dream Park - official website (in Arabic) . 2014-01-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140205052859/http://www.amanatbaghdad.gov.iq/PageViewer.aspx?id=59 . 2014-02-05 . dead .
5. Web site: Surviving Steam Locomotives in Aguascalientes . 2014-01-28 . 2020-07-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200731043809/http://www.steamlocomotive.com/lists/searchdb.php?country=MEX&state=AGS . dead .
6. Web site: Parque Héroes Mexicanos - official website (in Spanish) . 2014-01-28 . 2013-09-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130904184948/http://www.aguascalientes.gob.mx/ninos/aguascalientes/parques.htm . dead .
7. Web site: Steve . Llanso . Hawaiian-Philippine 0-6-0 Steam Locomotives in [the] Philippines ]. SteamLocomotive.com . Sweat House Media . 2021-03-24.