A railway mode built to a track gauge narrower than the standard gauge used on most main lines, chosen historically to reduce construction cost through mountainous or otherwise difficult terrain, or to allow tighter curves in industrial and mining settings. Narrow gauge lines carried timber, minerals and agricultural produce in many parts of the world, and a number of historic narrow gauge routes survive today as heritage and tourist railways rather than as everyday freight or passenger corridors.
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Core ConcernReducing rail construction and operating cost on difficult terrain or light traffic by building to a gauge narrower than standard. 1 Origin YearEarliest recorded narrow-gauge line appears in Georgius Agricola's 1556 De re metallica, describing a roughly 2 ft gauge hand-pushed mine railway in Bohemia. Steam haulage came far later: the Ffestiniog Railway introduced the first steam-hauled, public passenger narrow-gauge service in 1865. Narrow Gauge Railway
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Source CFC X 200 (Wikipedia, French edition)
Source CP Class 9020 (Wikipedia)
Source Renault NF (Wikipedia, German edition)
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1. Wikipedia: Narrow-Gauge Railway
WikipediaHistory, Early hand-worked lines
The earliest recorded railway appears in Georgius Agricola's 1556 De re metallica, which shows a mine in Bohemia with a railway of about 2 ft (610 mm) gauge.
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A narrow-gauge railway is one where the distance between the inside edges of the rails is less than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1/2 in) standard gauge.
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A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge.
View the Source CFC X 200 (Wikipedia, French edition)
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Les X 200 des Chemins de fer de la Corse (CFC) sont des autorails construits aux ateliers de Choisy-le-Roi par Renault et mis en service sur la ligne de Bastia à Ajaccio en 1950.
Renault NF (Wikipedia, German edition)
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Die Baureihe NF sind kleine zweiachsige benzinmechanische Einrichtungs-Triebwagen (Autorail), die im Jahr 1924 bestellt und 1925 ausgeliefert wurden.
CP Class 9020 (Wikipedia)
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metre-gauge diesel locomotives built by Alsthom for the Portuguese Railways (CP)
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