600 mm gauge railways in Germany

A list of 600 mm (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ in) narrow-gauge railways in Germany.

Track gauge
By transport mode
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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)   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
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A diesel locomotive and flat wagon at Eiswoog Halt on the Stumpfwald Railway in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Germany had extensive 600 mm (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ 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.