600 mm gauge railways in Germany

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
  • Feldbahn Rechtenstein; 0.7 km, operating
  • Kinderstraßenbahn Rumpelstilzchen; 0.2 km, operating
  • Torfbahn im Wurzacher Ried; 1.5 km, a peat Feldbahn, operating
  • Schlossgartenbahn Karlsruhe; 2.7 km, a park railway, operating
  • Wiesloch Feldbahn and Industrial Museum; ~1.2 km, open-air museum, operating
Bavaria
  • Neuhauser Bockerlbahn; 12 km, defunct
  • Reuth–Friedenfels line; 6.6 km, defunct
  • Sandbahn Pleinfeld; 2 km, defunct
  • Spiegelau Forest Railway; 100 km, defunct
  • Zwieselauer Waldbahn; 14.5 km, defunct
Berlin
  • Berliner Parkeisenbahn; 7.50 km, operating
  • Britzer Museumsbahn; 5.0 km, operating
Brandenburg
  • Cottbuser Parkeisenbahn; 3.20 km, operating
Hesse
  • Bad Orber Kleinbahn; former standard-gauge railway, partly relaid as a museum railway Feldbahn, operating
  • Bad Schwalbacher Kurbahn; 1.6 km, operating
  • Bebra narrow gauge railway museum; operating
  • Feld- und Grubenbahnmuseum Fortuna; 2.5 km, operating
  • Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum; 1.5 km, operating
  • Grubenbahnen Messel; 1.5 km, defunct
  • Industriebahn Roßdorf; 4 km, defunct
  • Lindelbachbahn; 4.4 km, defunct
  • Palmen-Express; operating
  • Wächtersbach–Bad Orb line; 6.5 km, operating
Lower Saxony
  • Burgsittensen Moor Railway; operating
  • Feldbahn Büsenbachtal; 0.9 km, Feldbahn, defunct
  • Feldbahnmuseum Hildesheim; operating
  • Inselbahn Baltrum; 0.6 km, goods traffic from 1949 to 1985, defunct
  • Weetzen–Bredenbecker Kalkwerke; 6.9 km, defunct
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Anklam-Lassaner Kleinbahn; 32.6 km, defunct
  • Mecklenburg-Pommersche Schmalspurbahn; 250 km, defunct
  • Pioniereisenbahn Prerow; 2 km, defunct
North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth; 1.5 km, operating
  • Feldbahn Schermbeck; defunct
  • Feldbahnmuseum Oekoven; 1 km, operating
  • Grugabahn; 3.3 km, operating
  • Kleinbahn im Rheinpark; 2 km, operating
  • Kleinbahn im Westfalenpark; 2.7 km, operating
  • Wallückebahn; 17 km, defunct
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
  • Parkeisenbahn Saarbrücken; 2 km, operating
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
  • Feldbahn des Sodawerkes Staßfurt; 2 km, operating
  • Parkeisenbahn Peißnitzexpress Halle; operating
  • Pferdebahn Patzetz–Breitenhagen; horse-drawn railway, 11.5 km, defunct
  • Pioniereisenbahn Magdeburg; 2.2 km, defunct
  • Rimpau-Bahn; 7 km, Feldbahn, defunct
  • Strube-Bahn; Feldbahn, a part survives as the Museumsfeldbahn Schlanstedt, operating
Schleswig-Holstein
  • Buchhorster Waldbahn; 6 km, operating
  • Laboe ammunition depot Feldbahn; 28 km, defunct
  • Halligbahn Lüttmoorsiel–Nordstrandischmoor; 3.5 km, operating
  • Malente-Gremsmühlen–Lütjenburg line; 17 km, converted to standard gauge, operating
Thuringia
  • Feldbahn Brotterode–Wernshausen; 11.5 km, defunct
  • Parkeisenbahn Gera; 0.8 km, operating
  • Steinbacher Bergwerksbahn; 6 km, defunct

See also

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