600 mm gauge railways in Germany

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A list of 600 mm (1 ft 11+58 in) narrow-gauge railways in Germany.

Germany had extensive 600 mm (1 ft 11+58 in) installations which were used as a common-carrier railway, industrial, mining, peat, agricultural and hospital railways.

In addition, park and children's railways were constructed.

During both World Wars, extensive military railways were constructed, the so-called trench railways and Heeresfeldbahnen.

Installations[]

State Installations
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Berlin
  • ; 7.50 km, operating
  •  [de]; 5.0 km, operating
Brandenburg
  •  [de]; 3.20 km, operating
Hesse
  • ; former standard-gauge railway, partly relaid as a museum railway Feldbahn, operating
  •  [de]; 1.6 km, operating
  • Bebra narrow gauge railway museum; operating
  •  [de]; 2.5 km, operating
  •  [de]; 1.5 km, operating
  •  [de]; 1.5 km, defunct
  •  [de]; 4 km, defunct
  •  [de]; 4.4 km, defunct
  •  [de]; operating
  •  [de]; 6.5 km, operating
Lower Saxony
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  •  [de]; 32.6 km, defunct
  •  [de]; 250 km, defunct
  •  [de]; 2 km, defunct
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
  •  [de]; 2 km, operating
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
  •  [de]; 2 km, operating
  •  [de]; operating
  •  [de]; horse-drawn railway, 11.5 km, defunct
  •  [de]; 2.2 km, defunct
  •  [de]; 7 km, Feldbahn, defunct
  •  [de]; Feldbahn, a part survives as the Museumsfeldbahn Schlanstedt, operating
Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringia
  •  [de]; 11.5 km, defunct
  •  [de]; 0.8 km, operating
  •  [de]; 6 km, defunct

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