Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.
Metre gauge is used in around of tracks around the world. It was used by several European colonial powers including France, Britain and Germany in their colonies. In Europe, large metre-gauge networks remain in use in Switzerland, Spain and many European towns with urban trams, but most metre-gauge local railways in France, Germany and Belgium closed down in the mid-20th century, although some still remain. With the revival of urban rail transport, metre-gauge light metros were built in some cities. The slightly-wider gauge is used in Sofia, Bulgaria. Another similar gauge is . __TOC__
Examples of metre-gauge Country/territoryRailway Argentina Ferrocarril General Manuel BelgranoAustriaInnsbruck Tramway (operating) Gmunden Tramway (operating) Stubaitalbahn (operating) Achenseebahn (operating) Schlossbergbahn (Graz) (operating)Bangladesh, out of which are dual gauge with gaugeBelgium National Company of Light Railways — ceased operations, except: Belgian Coast Tram (operating) Charleroi Light Metro (operating) Several "museum lines" kept in operation for tourists by volunteers: tramway to the Caves of Han-sur-Lesse, Tramway touristique de l'Aisne, etc. Antwerp Tram (operating) Ghent Tram (operating) Benin National rail network.Bolivia National rail network.BrazilMostly in cargo railways, including E.F Vitoria-Minas Passenger/Cargo Line and R.R. (operating) Fortaleza Metro (operating) Teresina Metro (operating)Bulgaria of gauge Entire Sofia Tramway system, except for three lines that use standard gauge. (operating)Burkina FasoAbidjan-Ouagadougou railway (operating)Burma Burmese railways, except for the Burma Mines Railway. CambodiaCameroonChileEmpresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (Ferronor), Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia, Arica–La Paz railway.ChinaKunhe Railway (formerly the Yunnan–Vietnam Railway) (operating). Dujiangyan–Siguniangshan mountain railway [zh] (in construction). Former Datong–Puzhou railway and Zhengding-Taiyuan Railway. All regauged to standard gauge.CroatiaZagreb Tramway (operating) Osijek tram system (operating)Czech RepublicLike other Sudeten cities, the trams of Liberec used metre gauge in the past. All lines however have been rebuilt to standard gauge.Democratic Republic of the CongoSeveral metre gauge railwaysDenmark See Metre gauge railways in Denmark and Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark. A few local railways. Only one remains, but regauged to standard gauge. Århus tramway (closed), Danish Tramway Museum.EgyptCairo tram (ceased operations) FinlandHelsinki tram (operating)FranceHistorically used in many local and regional railways, only a few of which remain today. Blanc-Argent Railway, from Salbris to Valençay (operating) Chemins de fer de la Provence (Train des pignes) (operating) Chemins de fer de la Corse (2 operating lines) Chemin de fer de La Mure (operating) Panoramique des Dômes (operating) Lille tramway (operating) Saint-Étienne tramway (operating) Chemins de fer départementaux du Finistère (closed in 1946) Chemin de fer de la Baie de Somme (operating) Ligne de Cerdagne, Le Petit Train Jaune (Little Yellow Train), operating in the French Pyrenees. Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway through Chamonix (operating) Mont Blanc tramway (operating) Chemin de fer du Montenvers (operating) Guignicourt–Rethel railwayGermanyTrams in Augsburg Trams in Bad Schandau Bielefeld Stadtbahn Trams in Bochum/Gelsenkirchen Trams in Brandenburg Trams in Cottbus Trams in Darmstadt Erfurt Stadtbahn Trams in Essen Trams in Frankfurt (Oder) Trams in Freiburg im Breisgau Trams in Görlitz Trams in Gotha Trams in Halberstadt Trams in Halle (Saale) Trams in Heidelberg Trams in Jena Trams in Krefeld Trams in Mainz Trams in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen Trams in Mülheim/Oberhausen Trams in Naumburg (Saale) Trams in Nordhausen Trams in Plauen Trams in Schöneiche Trams in Ulm Trams in Würzburg Trams in Zwickau Harzer Schmalspurbahnen (operating) Bavarian Zugspitzbahn (operating)GreeceThe Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways used to be the largest metre-gauge network in Europe but are now largely abandoned. Only the suburban rail service of Patras, and the Olympia–Katakolo tourist railway still use the network. An undergoing project of Messinian Suburban Railway will bring back at least 40 kilometers of the unused metre gauge railwayHungary Szombathely tram (1897-1974) Sopron tram (1900-1923) Borsodnádasd record factory (defunct)IndiaNilgiri Mountain Railway (operating) Mailani - Nanpara Railway (operating)IraqMesopotamian RailwaysIsraelSections of railways, later converted to or gaugeItalyTrento–Malè–Marilleva railway, owned by Trentino Trasporti (operating) Ferrovia Genova–Casella (operating) Domodossola–Locarno international railway (operating) Trieste–Opicina tramway (operating) Rittnerbahn-ferrovia del Renon tramway (operating) Laas-Lasa marble quarry railway (operating) Bernina railway (crosses into Switzerland) (UNESCO World Heritage Site status shared with Albula Railway in Switzerland) (operating)Ivory CoastAbidjan-Ouagadougou railway (operating)KenyaKenya Railway run by Kenya Railways Corporation. Metre gauge link from Nairobi Standard Gauge station to city centre (operating)LaosA 3.5 km extension of the metre-gauge State Railway of Thailand network across the border into LaosLatviaLiepāja tramway (operating)Madagascar. There are two unconnected systems operated by MadarailMalaysia Keretapi Tanah Melayu (Malayan Railway) - KTM Intercity, KTM ETS and KTM Komuter Sabah State Railway Penang Hill RailwayMali Dakar–Niger RailwayMaltaMalta RailwayMoroccoSeveral industrial railways in former Spanish MoroccoNew ZealandWellington Cable Car (operating)NorwayTrondheim Tramway (operating) Fløibanen (operating) Thamshavn Line (operating as a museum railway)Pakistan Mirpur Khas–Nawabshah Railway (defunct) One section of Hyderabad–Khokhrapar Branch Line (converted to broad gauge)Poland Trams in Bydgoszcz (operating) Trams in Toruń (operating) there are plans to interconnect both cities' systems Trams in Elbląg (operating) Tramways in Grudziądz (operating) Trams in Łódź (including suburban lines) (operating) Trams in Olsztyn (defunct 1965, newly-built system in 2015 is standard gauge) Gryficka Kolej Wąskotorowa (operating as a tourist railway) Koszalińska Kolej Wąskotorowa (operating as a tourist railway) Piaseczyńska Kolej Wąskotorowa (operating as a tourist railway)PortugalSeveral mainly mountainous branch lines, mostly abandoned in the 1990s, never fully interconnected — connected to the REFER network by means of shared stations and some dual-gauge stretches. Metro de Mirandela and Vouga line remain in use. Other metric networks include Funchal rack railway (defunct in 1943), Coimbra trams (defunct in 1980), and Sintra trams.Puerto RicoFull network of Puerto Rican 1000mm railways in 1920: «Los ferrocarriles de uso público en Puerto Rico (1870-1990)», Antonio Santamaría García (1994). Revista Complutense de Historia de América XX: pp. 207-228
American Railroad Company – , (1891-c.1957) (defunct). After 1957, some tracks of American Railroad Company were acquired by Land Authority of Puerto Rico for sugar cane hauling: the Arecibo network (Central Cambalache: 1957-1981) (defunct) and the Aguada-Mayagüez line (Central Coloso: 1957-c.1970) (defunct) Fajardo Development Company – for sugar cane hauling between Carolina to Naguabo in eastern Puerto Rico (1902-1977) (defunct)Contexto histórico e inventario del ferrocarril en Puerto Rico, 1850-1953 - Primera parte: Trasfondo histórico Ferrocarril Histórico de Puerto Rico, Fajardo – tracks of Central Fajardo Railroad from Fajardo outskirts to El Yunque foothills used as right-of-way for this heritage railroad since 1971. Destroyed by Fajardo River flooding in 1974 (defunct)«Conservando una Romántica Tradición», Dave Deyo, Railroading, Number 43, Second Quarter (1972): pp. 6-18] Ponce and Guayama Railroad – for sugar cane hauling between Ponce to Arroyo in southern Puerto Rico (1904-1990) (defunct) Train of the South – tracks of Ponce and Guayama Railroad from Guayama to Arroyo used as right-of-way for this heritage railroad between 1984-1988 and reused between 1996-2005 (defunct) Caguas Tramway (Río Piedras-Caguas Railway) – (1908-1928) (defunct) Mayagüez Tramway (1915-1927) (defunct) Ponce Tramway (1902-1927) (defunct)RomaniaArad tram (operating) Iaşi tram (operating) Sibiu tram (operating) Was used in Galaţi tram until fully replaced by standard gauge in 1975.RussiaKaliningrad tramway (operating) Pyatigorsk tramway (operating)SenegalDakar–Niger Railway – SerbiaBelgrade Tram (operating)SingaporeSingapore span of the Keretapi Tanah Melayu (Malayan Railway) for shuttle service.SlovakiaBratislava trams/streetcars (operating) Tatra Electric Railway (Tatranské elektrické železnice), a mountain railroad and a rack railway in the area of the High Tatras. (operating) Košice Children's Heritage Railway in Košice. (operating)SpainEuskotren Trena inter-city, commuter & metro lines and Euskotren Tranbia (Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz) tram lines Renfe lines in north-west Spain, including the Transcantábrico (operating) FGC Llobregat–Anoia Line and Barcelona Metro line 8 Bilbao Metro (operating) Cercanías Madrid C-9 (Cercedilla–Cotos) (operating) Cercanías Murcia/Alicante C-4 (Cartagena–Los Nietos) (operating) Palma de Mallorca Metro (operating) Valencia Metro (operating) Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (operating)SwedenSkansens bergbana (operating)Switzerland Albula Railway and Bernina railway (crosses into Italy). These railways share UNESCO World Heritage Site status as part of the Rhaetian Railway (operating) Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen railway, Altstätten–Gais railway line, Gossau–Wasserauen railway line, runs in the cantons of St. Gallen, Appenzell Innerrhoden and Appenzell Ausserrhoden (operating) Dolderbahn, Funicular railway in Zurich converted into a rack railway and extended in the early 1970s. (operating) Forchbahn, runs as a tram in Zürich city and as a train outside the city (operating) Zentralbahn, merged with Luzern Stans Engelbergbahn, Brünigbahn and Meiringen Innertkirchen Bahn (operating) Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, (operating) Chemins de fer du Jura, (operating) La Chaux-de-Fonds–Glovelier line, (operating) La Chaux-de-Fonds–Les Ponts-de-Martel railway, (operating) Saignelégier–La Chaux-de-Fonds Railway, (operating) Le Locle–Les Brenets line, (operating) Trams in Neuchâtel, (operating) Centovalli railway, (operating) Lugano–Ponte Tresa Railway, (operating) Martigny–Châtelard Railway, (operating) Chemin de fer Nyon-St-Cergue-Morez, (operating) Chemin de fer Bière-Apples-Morges, (operating) Chemin de fer Yverdon–Ste-Croix, (operating) Chemin de fer Lausanne–Echallens–Bercher, (operating) Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line, (operating) Transports Publics du Chablais, (operating) Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn, (operating) Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn, (operating) Biel–Täuffelen–Ins railway, (operating) Trams in Basel, (operating) Baselland Transport, (operating) Trams in Bern, (operating) Trams in Geneva, (operating) Berner Oberlandbahn, (operating) Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line, (operating) Gornergratbahn, (operating) Trams in Zürich, trams in Zürich city and Glattal (operating) Bienne–Evilard FunicularTanzaniaTanzania Railways Corporation – about (break of gauge with TAZARA Railway)ThailandState Railway of Thailand, .Togo.Tunisia used along with standard gauge ()TurkeyT3 Line of Burtram (operating) EsTram (operating) Istanbul nostalgic tramways (operating)Uganda Uganda Railway run by Uganda Railways Corporation. Metre gauge link from Malaba to Kampala city centre (operating, under rehabilitation) Metre gauge link from Malaba to Tororo (operating) Metre gauge link from Tororo - Gulu - Pakwach to Tororo (under rehabilitation)UkraineLviv tram (operating) Vinnytsia Tramway (operating)