4 ft 8 in gauge railways

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 600 mm 610 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) (2 ft)   750 mm Bosnian gauge Two foot six inch 750 mm 760 mm 762 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) (2 ft 6 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 in) (3 ft)   Metre 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)   Three foot six inch 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)   Four foot zero inch 1,219 mm (4 ft 0 in)   Four foot six inch 1,372 mm (4 ft 6 in)   Standard 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) Broad   Dresden gauge 1,450 mm (4 ft 9+3⁄32 in)   Leipzig gauge 1,458 mm (4 ft 9+13⁄32 in)   Toronto gauge 1,495 mm (4 ft 10+7⁄8 in)   1520 mm Five foot 1,520 mm 1,524 mm (4 ft 11+7⁄8 in) (5 ft)   Pennsylvania gauge Pennsylvania gauge Five foot three inch 1,581 mm 1,588 mm 1,600 mm (5 ft 2+1⁄4 in) (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in) (5 ft 3 in)   Baltimore gauge 1,638 mm (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)   Iberian gauge Five foot six inch 1,668 mm 1,676 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in) (5 ft 6 in)
Change of gauge
Break of gauge Dual gauge Conversion (list) Bogie exchange Variable gauge
By location
North America South America Europe Australia
v t

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 gauge The first such railways were the Killingworth Railway^[1][2] and the Stockton and Darlington Railway ^{[note 1]}

Similar gauges[]

• The Huddersfield Corporation Tramways, 4 ft 7+3⁄4 in (1,416 mm), the gauge is 3⁄4 inch (19 mm) less than 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
• The Glasgow Corporation Tramways, 4 ft 7+3⁄4 in (1,416 mm)
• The Washington Metro 4 ft 8+1⁄4 in (1,429 mm), the gauge is 1⁄4 inch (6 mm) less than 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
• The trams in Nuremberg for one time nominally used 1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3⁄8 in), the gauge is 1⁄8 inch (3 mm) less than 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
• The MTR uses 1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3⁄8 in) on most lines.
• The Bucharest Metro uses 1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3⁄8 in)

Installations[]

This list is incomplete; you can help by . (March 2021)

Country / territory	System / RR name	Notes
Netherlands	Trams in Amsterdam	In operation. Converted to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) between 1900 and 1906
New Zealand	Trams in Dunedin	Defunct
UK	Clarence Railway	Became part of the North Eastern Railway in 1865
	Hetton colliery railway	Closed in 1959[5]
	Killingworth Colliery railway Killingworth Railway Killingworth tramway Killingworth wagonway	Four different names for the same line. Defunct
	Stockton and Darlington Railway	Became part of the North Eastern Railway in 1863
USA	Centreville Military Railroad	Defunct
	Green Mountain Cog Railway
	Los Angeles and Independence Railroad
	Manassas Gap Railroad
	Montgomery and West Point Railroad
	Mount Washington Cog Railway	In operation
	New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad	Became the St. Charles Streetcar Line,[6] converted to 5 ft 2+1⁄2 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

See also[]

• 4 ft 7 3⁄4 in gauge
• List of 4 ft 8 in gauge railways
• List of track gauges
• List of tram track gauges

Notes[]

References[]

Sources[]

• Allen, Cecil J. (1974) [1964]. The North Eastern Railway. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0495-1.
• Cook, Samantha (2005). New Orleans: Directions. Rough Guides. ISBN 1-84353-393-6.
• Smiles, Samuel (1904). Lives of the Engineers. The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson. John Murray. OCLC 220796785.
• Tomlinson, William Weaver (1915). The North Eastern Railway: Its rise and development. Andrew Reid and Company. OCLC 504251788.

This rail-transport related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t