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4 ft 8 in gauge railways

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 Fifteen inch381 mm(1 ft 3 in)

 Narrow
 600 mm600 mm(1 ft11+58 in)
Two foot610 mm(2 ft)
Two foot three inch686 mm(2 ft 3 in)
 750 mm750 mm(2 ft5+12 in)
Bosnian gauge760 mm(2 ft5+1516 in)
Two foot six inch762 mm(2 ft 6 in)
 Swedish three-foot891 mm(2 ft11+332 in)
900 mm900 mm(2 ft11+716 in)
Three-foot914 mm(3 ft)
Italian metre950 mm(3 ft1+1332 in)
 Metre1,000 mm(3 ft3+38 in)
 Three foot six inch1,067 mm(3 ft 6 in)
 Four foot1,219 mm(4 ft)
 Four foot six inch1,372 mm(4 ft 6 in)
 1432 mm1,432 mm(4 ft8+38 in)

 Standard1,435 mm(4 ft8+12 in)

 Broad
 Italian broad gauge1,445 mm(4 ft8+78 in)
Dresden gauge1,450 mm(4 ft9+332 in)
 Leipzig gauge1,458 mm(4 ft9+1332 in)
 Toronto gauge1,495 mm(4 ft10+78 in)
 1520 mm1,520 mm(4 ft11+2732 in)
Five foot1,524 mm(5 ft)
 Pennsylvania gauge1,581 mm(5 ft2+14 in)
Pennsylvania gauge1,588 mm(5 ft2+12 in)
Five foot three inch1,600 mm(5 ft 3 in)
 Baltimore gauge1,638 mm(5 ft4+12 in)
 Iberian gauge1,668 mm(5 ft5+2132 in)
Five foot six inch1,676 mm(5 ft 6 in)
 Six foot1,829 mm(6 ft)
 Brunel2,140 mm(7 ft14 in)
 Breitspurbahn3,000 mm(9 ft 1018 in)
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4 ft 8 in gauge railways are railways with atrack gauge of4 ft 8 in /1,422 mm. This gauge is12 inch (13 mm) less than4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm)standard gauge The first such railways were theKillingworth Railway[1][2] and theStockton and Darlington Railway[note 1]

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Railways

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This list isincomplete; you can help byadding missing items.(March 2021)
Country / territorySystem / RR nameNotes
NetherlandsTrams in AmsterdamIn operation.Converted to1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) between 1900 and 1906
New ZealandTrams in DunedinDefunct
UKClarence RailwayBecame part of theNorth Eastern Railway in 1865
Hetton colliery railwayClosed in 1959[5]
Killingworth Colliery railway
Killingworth Railway
Killingworth tramway
Killingworth wagonway
Four different names for the same line. Defunct
Stockton and Darlington RailwayBecame part of theNorth Eastern Railway in 1863
USACentreville Military RailroadDefunct
Green Mountain Cog Railway
Los Angeles and Independence Railroad
Manassas Gap Railroad
Montgomery and West Point Railroad
Mount Washington Cog RailwayIn operation
New Orleans and Carrollton RailroadBecame theSt. Charles Streetcar Line,[6]converted to5 ft 2+12 in (1,588 mm)
North Carolina Railroad
Pontchartrain Railroad
Raleigh and Gaston Railroad
Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
West Feliciana Railroad
Western North Carolina Railroad
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad

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Notes

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  1. ^Smiles (1904, p. 160) states that early tramroads had rails4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) apart, butTomlinson (1915, pp. 82–83) challenges this, stating that the most common gauge of the early tramroads andwaggonways was about4 ft (1,219 mm), and some, such as theWylam waggonway, had the rails5 ft (1,524 mm) apart. The gauge of the S&DR was given in early documents as4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm), but the distance between the rails was later measured as4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm), and this became thestandard gauge used by 60 per cent of railways worldwide. The difference of12 inch (13 mm) is a mystery.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^Allen 1974, p. 20.
  2. ^The Rocket Men, by Robin Jones, p33; Mortons Media Group.
  3. ^Davis, Hunter (1975).George Stephenson: A Biographical Study of the Father of Railways. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 75.ISBN 0-297-76934-0.
  4. ^"Robert Stephenson (1803–1859)". Network Rail. Archived fromthe original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved25 March 2014.
  5. ^Allen, G. Freeman (December 1959). "Talking of trains: First mineral railway closed".Trains Illustrated. Hampton Court: Ian Allan.
  6. ^Cook 2005, p. 136.

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