4 ft 8 in gauge railways are railways with a track gauge of . This gauge is less than , but is not considered narrow gauge despite the gauge. The first such railways were the Killingworth RailwayThe Rocket Men, by Robin Jones, p33; Mortons Media Group. and the Stockton and Darlington Railway
Similar gauges The Huddersfield Corporation Tramways, , the gauge is less than The Glasgow Corporation Tramways, The Washington Metro , the gauge is less than The trams in Nuremberg for one time nominally used , the gauge is less than The MTR uses on most lines. The Bucharest Metro uses
Railways
Country / territorySystem / RR nameNotesTrams in Amsterdam In operation. Converted to between 1900 and 1906Trams in DunedinDefunctClarence RailwayBecame part of the North Eastern Railway in 1865Hetton colliery railwayClosed in 1959Killingworth Colliery railwayKillingworth RailwayKillingworth tramwayKillingworth wagonway Four different names for the same line. DefunctStockton and Darlington RailwayBecame part of the North Eastern Railway in 1863Centreville Military RailroadDefunctGreen Mountain Cog RailwayLos Angeles and Independence RailroadManassas Gap RailroadMontgomery and West Point RailroadMount Washington Cog RailwayIn operationNew Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Became the St. Charles Streetcar Line, converted to North Carolina RailroadPontchartrain RailroadRaleigh and Gaston RailroadRichmond, Petersburg and Carolina RailroadSeaboard and Roanoke RailroadWest Feliciana RailroadWestern North Carolina RailroadWilmington 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
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