List of horse-drawn railways

Horses were used to pull railways in funiculars and coal mines as early as early 16th century. Earliest such example is Reisszug, a railway dating to 1515. Almost all of the mines built in 16th and 17th century used horse-drawn railways as their only mode of transport.

• Swansea & Mumbles Railway (1804–1877) ; later electrified[1][2]
• Leiper Railroad (1810–1828)
• Brinore Tramroad (1814–1861)
• Blaafarveværket (c. 1820s), Norway
• Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway (1823–1888, 1860) 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm) gauge
• Stockton & Darlington Railway operated with both horses and engines for a while. (1825–1833)
• Granite Railroad (1826–1871) 1,524 mm (5 ft)
• France (1827– ) Saint-Étienne to Andrézieux Railway
• Czech rail records (1828–) 1,106 mm (3 ft 7 ¹⁄₂ in) gauge
• Port Arthur, Tasmania Tramway (1836– ) convict (human) powered
• Festiniog Railway (1836–1863)[3]
• Patent (1838–1844) G. Peppercorne[4]
• Bratislava to Svätý Jur to Trnava Váh horse railway (1840 - 10 October 1872) 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in) gauge [5][6]
• Bazias to Anina over Oravita in present-day Romania (1846-1863), used for coal transport to a port on the river Danube.
• Leith and Musselburgh Tramway(1841– )[7]

• Fintona Railway, Ireland (1853–1957) 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) gauge.[8]
• Goolwa Port Elliot Railway (1854–); used up to 16 horses[9] 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) gauge
• Newquay Railway (1855–) clay mining
• Nelson, New Zealand (1861-____)[10]
• Dun Mountain Railway (1861–1901) 914 mm (3 ft)
• Wallaroo (port) to Moonta (mines) – tramway (1862–1890+)[11][12]
• Port Macdonnell to Mount Gambier – proposal[13]
• Omaha Horse Railway (1867– )
• Port Wakefield Railway (1870–1876) 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge. Converted to locomotive haulage.
• Narracoorte to Lacepede Bay (1871) 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
• Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia, Chile (1873–1876) – mule-drawn – 762 mm (2 ft 6 in)
• Douglas, Isle of Man (1876–present) shires and clydesdales are used to pull a fleet of original tramcars along the seafront.
• Port Broughton (1876–1926) always isolated; 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) ; locomotives proposed in 1906[14]
• Namaqualand Railway 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge opened 1869-1876; steam followed gradually.
• Kailan – Lutai Canal (1878–1881) ; mule-drawn for coal[15]

• Horse Tramways in Fiji (1884–) 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge and 610 mm (2 ft) gauge. Some assisted by manpower. Cane tramways.
• McKenzie Creek Tramway, Horsham, Victoria – Shire-operated, 8 km long – (1887–1925)
• Nasik Tramway (1889–193x)
• Bärschwil gypsum railway (1894–1952)
• 1905–1941 Welshpool Jetty line 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge
• Finton Tramway, Ireland 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) (????-1957)[16]
• Kingston (port) Naracoorte[17]
• Gawler[18]
• Moonta[19]