2 ft gauge railways in Australia

Track gauge

By transport mode

Tram · Rapid transit
Miniature · Scale model

By size (list)



Minimum
Fifteen inch	381 mm	(15 in)

Narrow
600 mm, Two foot	597 mm 600 mm 603 mm 610 mm	(1 ft 11 ¹⁄₂ in) (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ in) (1 ft 11 ³⁄₄ in) (2 ft)
750 mm, Bosnian, Two foot six inch, 800 mm	750 mm 760 mm 762 mm 800 mm	(2 ft 5 ¹⁄₂ in) (2 ft 5 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ in) (2 ft 6 in) (2 ft 7 ¹⁄₂ in)
Swedish three foot, 900 mm, Three foot	891 mm 900 mm 914 mm	(2 ft 11 ³⁄₃₂ in) (2 ft 11 ⁷⁄₁₆) (3 ft)
Metre	1,000 mm	(3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in)
Three foot six inch, Cape, CAP, Kyōki	1,067 mm	(3 ft 6 in)
Four foot six inch	1,372 mm	(4 ft 6 in)

Standard	1,435 mm	(4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)

Broad
Russian, Five foot	1,520 mm 1,524 mm	(4 ft 11 ²⁷⁄₃₂ in) (5 ft)
Irish	1,600 mm	(5 ft 3 in)
Iberian	1,668 mm	(5 ft 5 ²¹⁄₃₂ in)
Indian	1,676 mm	(5 ft 6 in)
Six foot	1,829 mm	(6 ft)
Brunel	2,140 mm	(7 ft ¹⁄₄ in)

Change of gauge

Break-of-gauge · Dual gauge ·
Conversion (list) · Bogie exchange · Variable gauge

By location

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An example of a typical sugar cane railway in Queensland.

A list of 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railways in Australia.

Installations

State/territory	Railway
New South Wales	Bulahdelah Logging Railway^[1] (operational status unknown) Goondah-Burrinjuck Railway (defunct) Cataract Dam construction railway; 8.8 km (5.5 mi), (defunct) Illawarra Light Railway Museum (separate 7 ¹⁄₄ in (184 mm) gauge railway also present) (operating) Marsden Weir Steam Museum^[1] (defunct) Megalong Valley Tourist Railway^[1] (defunct) Melaleuca Station, Chinderah^[1] (defunct) Menangle Narrow Gauge Railway^[1] (operating) Newington Armaments Depot (defunct) Timbertown Heritage Railway (located in Timbertown) (operating)
Queensland	Australian Sugar Cane Railway^[2] (located in Bundaberg Botanic Gardens) (operating) Ballyhooley Steam Railway (operating) Dreamworld Express (located in Dreamworld) (operating) Durundur Railway^[1] (operating) Geraldton Shire Tramway^[3] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway^[3] (owned by Queensland Rail) (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway) Irvinebank Tramway^[3] (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway) Mapleton Tramway^[3] (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway) Mourilyan Harbour Tramway^[3] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Queensland sugar tramways (operating) Stannary Hills Tramway^[3] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Woodford Railway^[4] (operating)
South Australia	Cobdogla Irrigation Museum^[5] (operating)
Tasmania	Comstock Tramway, Mount Lyell^[6] (defunct) Comstock Tramway, Zeehan^[3] (defunct) Hercules Haulage (defunct) Ida Bay Railway (operating) Lake Margaret Tram (defunct) Magnet Tramway^[3] (defunct) Mount Lyell Quarry Railway (defunct) Mount Lyell Underground Railway (defunct) North East Dundas Tramway (defunct) Redwater Creek Steam and Heritage Society^[1] (operating) Sandfly Colliery Tramway (defunct) Wee Georgie Wood Railway (formerly known as the Mount Farrell Tramway)^[3] (operating) Zeehan & North East Dundas^[3] (defunct)
Victoria	Alexandra Timber Tramway^[1] (operating) Cheetham Salt Works^[7] (defunct) Coal Creek Bush Tramway^[1] (operating) Kerrisdale Mountain Railway^[1] (operating) Melbourne Benevolent Asylum (defunct) Red Cliffs Historical Steam Railway^[1] (operating) Rubicon Lumber and Tramway Company^[8] (defunct)
Western Australia	Bennett Brook Railway (operating) Roebourne and Cossack tramway^[9] (defunct)

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Steam in Australia, 2013
↑ Australian Sugar Cane Railway - official website
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 World Wide Listing of Two foot, 1' 11 1/2", 600 mm (60cm) & 610mm Railroads (from archive.org) - Australia
↑ Woodford Railway - official website
↑ Cobdogla Irrigation Museum
↑ "LYELL.". Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Hobart, Tas. : 1890 - 1922). Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 22 November 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
↑ Alexandra Timber Tramway - Day's Tractor ex Cheetham Salt
↑ Alexandra Timber Tramway - Historical background
↑ Roebourne and Cossack tramway

External links

Queensland sugar cane railways today

Track gauge (list)

Minimum gauge	15 in (381 mm) 400 mm (15 ³⁄₄ in) 18 in (457 mm) 500 mm (19 ³⁄₄ in)

Narrow gauge	2 foot and 600 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) 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 3 ft 6 in/1,067 mm 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm), Scotch gauge List of narrow tram track gauges

Standard gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in/1,435 mm, Stephenson gauge List of standard gauge tram tracks

Broad gauge	1445 mm gauge 1,445 mm (4 ft 8 ⁷⁄₈ in) 4 ft 10 ⁷⁄₈ in (1,495 mm), Toronto 5 ft/1,524 mm and 1520 mm, Russian gauge 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm), Irish gauge 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 ²¹⁄₃₂ in), Iberian gauge 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm), Indian gauge 7 ft ¹⁄₄ in (2,140 mm), Brunel gauge 3,000 mm (9 ft 10 ¹⁄₈ in), Breitspurbahn List of broad tram track gauges

Gauge differences	Bogie exchange Break-of-gauge Dual gauge Gauge conversion list Variable gauge

Categories	by country by imperial units by metric units by name lists of track gauges

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2 ft gauge railways in Australia

Installations

See also

References

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