A list of narrow-gauge railways in Germany.
Germany had extensive installations which were used as a common-carrier railway, industrial, mining, peat, agricultural and hospital railways.
In addition, park and children's railways were constructed.
During both World Wars, extensive military railways were constructed, the so-called trench railways and Heeresfeldbahnen.
Railways State InstallationsBaden-Württemberg; 0.7 km, operating ; 0.2 km, operating ; 1.5 km, a peat Feldbahn, operating ; 2.7 km, a park railway, operating Wiesloch Feldbahn and Industrial Museum; ~1.2 km, open-air museum, operatingBavaria; 12 km, defunct ; 6.6 km, defunct ; 2 km, defunct Spiegelau Forest Railway; 100 km, defunct Zwieselauer Waldbahn; 14.5 km, defunctBerlinBerliner Parkeisenbahn; 7.50 km, operating ; 5.0 km, operatingBrandenburg; 3.20 km, operatingHesseBad Orber Kleinbahn; former standard-gauge railway, partly relaid as a museum railway Feldbahn, operating ; 1.6 km, operating Bebra narrow gauge railway museum; operating ; 2.5 km, operating ; 1.5 km, operating ; 1.5 km, defunct ; 4 km, defunct ; 4.4 km, defunct ; operating ; 6.5 km, operatingLower SaxonyBurgsittensen Moor Railway; operating ; 0.9 km, Feldbahn, defunct ; operating ; 0.6 km, goods traffic from 1949 to 1985, defunct ; 6.9 km, defunctMecklenburg-Vorpommern; 32.6 km, defunct ; 250 km, defunct ; 2 km, defunctNorth Rhine-WestphaliaDampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth; 1.5 km, operating ; defunct ; 1 km, operating ; 3.3 km, operating ; 2 km, operating ; 2.7 km, operating ; 17 km, defunctRhineland-PalatinateStumpfwald Railway; operating ; 14.5 km, defunctSaarland; 2 km, operatingSaxony; a park railway, operating Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz; a park railway, operating ; 1 km, a park railway, operating ; a park railway, operating Waldeisenbahn Muskau; 50 km, a forest railway, part operating ; regauged to standard gauge, defunctSaxony-Anhalt; 2 km, operating ; operating ; horse-drawn railway, 11.5 km, defunct ; 2.2 km, defunct ; 7 km, Feldbahn, defunct ; Feldbahn, a part survives as the Museumsfeldbahn Schlanstedt, operatingSchleswig-Holstein; 6 km, operating ; 28 km, defunct Halligbahn Lüttmoorsiel–Nordstrandischmoor; 3.5 km, operating ; 17 km, converted to standard gauge, operatingThuringia; 11.5 km, defunct ; 0.8 km, operating ; 6 km, defunct
See also Narrow-gauge railways in Germany
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