Fifteen-inch gauge railways were pioneered by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood who was interested in what he termed a minimum gauge railway for use as estate...

Narrow Gauge Railways: England and the Fifteen Inch. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0862995752. Mosley, David; van Zeller, Peter (1986). Fifteen Inch Gauge Railways...

gauges were used in the United States. Some railways, primarily in the northeast, used standard gauge of 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm); others used gauges...

Railways with a track gauge of 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) fall within the category of broad gauge railways. As of 2022[update], they were extant in Australia...

Railways with a railway track gauge of 5 ft (1,524 mm) first appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States. This gauge became commonly known as...

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in). The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George...

the railways of Spain and Portugal. A broad gauge, it is the second-widest gauge in regular use anywhere in the world, with only Indian gauge railways, 5 ft 6 in...

of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails. For ridable miniature railways and minimum gauge railways, the...

60 staff on the payroll. Fifteen-inch gauge railway Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Shuzenji Romney Railway, A miniature railway at the Niji-no-Sato theme...

19 April 1916) is best known today as the innovator of the fifteen inch minimum gauge railway, for estate use. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Percival...

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...

network. Indian Railways today predominantly operates on 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge. Most of the metre gauge and narrow gauge railways have been converted...

the track gauge. Since many different track gauges exist worldwide, gauge differences often present a barrier to wider operation on railway networks....

Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) or 1 metre. Metre gauge is used...

Railways with a track gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) were first constructed as horse-drawn wagonways. The first intercity passenger railway to use 3 ft...

The Eaton Hall Railway was an early 15 in (381 mm) gauge minimum gauge estate railway built in 1896 at Eaton Hall in Cheshire. The line, which connected...

broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) used by standard-gauge railways...

4 ft 8 in gauge railways are railways with a track gauge of 4 ft 8 in / 1,422 mm. This gauge is 1⁄2 inch (13 mm) less than 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard...

in the United States 3 ft gauge railways in the United Kingdom Large amusement railways Three foot six inch gauge railways in the United Kingdom "Chillington...

gauge railways: England and the fifteen inch. Leicester: P R C. ISBN 1856481786. Mosley, David; van Zeller, Peter (1986). Fifteen Inch Gauge Railways...

variable gauge system allows railway vehicles in a train to travel across a break of gauge between two railway networks with different track gauges. For through...

Bosnian-gauge railways are railways with track gauge of 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in). These were found extensively in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire as...

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...

narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge...

full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or petrol engines, live steam or electric motors). Typically miniature railways have a rail track gauge between...

quarter inch gauge (or X scale) (10+1⁄4 in / 260 mm) is a large modelling scale, generally only used for ridable miniature railways. Model railways at this...

standard-gauge trains; the last broad-gauge services were operated in 1892. The GWR was the only company to keep its identity through the Railways Act 1921...

6 in gauge railways in the United Kingdom 3 ft gauge railroads in the United States Large amusement railways Three foot six inch gauge railways in the...

gauge railroads in the United States 3 ft gauge railroads in the United States Three foot six inch gauge railways in the United Kingdom Stoek, H. H.; Fleming...

Gauge conversion is the changing of one railway track gauge (the distance between the running rails) to another. If tracks are converted to a narrower...