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800 mm gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways built to a track gauge of 800 mm (2 ft 7+1⁄2 in).

Whilst this gauge is uncommon amongst adhesion railways, some of the world's best known rack railways are built to it. Six of these are in Switzerland, including the world's steepest rack line (the Pilatus Railway) and the world's longest pure rack line (the Wengernalp Railway), whilst the United Kingdom's only rack railway (the Snowdon Mountain Railway) is also to this gauge. A few funicular railways are also built to this gauge.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

^ Three small tank engines, Free Miner, Trafalgar and The Brothers, were built by the Lilleshall Company from 1865.^[6]

2 foot and 600 mm
2 ft 3 in (686 mm)
750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in)
2 ft 6 in (762 mm)
800 mm (2 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
891 mm (2 ft 11+3⁄32 in) Swedish three foot
900 mm (2 ft 11+7⁄16 in)
3 ft (914 mm)
950 mm (3 ft 1+3⁄8 in) Italian metre gauge
1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge
1,050 mm (3 ft 5+11⁄32 in),
1,055 mm (3 ft 5+1⁄2 in),
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
1,093 mm (3 ft 7 in),
1,100 mm (3 ft 7+5⁄16 in),
1,200 mm (3 ft 11+1⁄4 in)
4 ft (1,219 mm)
4 ft 1 in (1,245 mm), Middleton Railway
4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm), Scotch gauge
4 ft 6+1⁄2 in (1,384 mm), Scotch gauge
4 ft 7+3⁄4 in (1,416 mm)
4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm), almost standard gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄4 in (1,429 mm)
1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3⁄8 in)

1,440 mm (4 ft 8+11⁄16 in)
1,445 mm (4 ft 8+7⁄8 in)
1,450 mm (4 ft 9+3⁄32 in)
4 ft 9+3⁄8 in (1,457 mm)
1,458 mm (4 ft 9+13⁄32 in)
4 ft 10+7⁄8 in (1,495 mm), Toronto gauge
5 ft / 1,524 mm and 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in), Russian gauge.
5 ft 2+1⁄4 in / 1,581 mm and 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in / 1,588 mm, Pennsylvania gauge
5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm), Irish gauge
5 ft 4+1⁄2 in (1,638 mm), Baltimore gauge
1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in), Iberian gauge
5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm), Indian gauge
1,945 mm (6 ft 4+9⁄16 in), De Arend
7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm), Brunel gauge
3,000 mm (9 ft 10+1⁄8 in), Breitspurbahn
8,200 mm (26 ft 10+27⁄32 in), Lärchwandschrägaufzug
9,000 mm (29 ft 6+5⁄16 in), Krasnoyarsk ship lift

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