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Metre gauge refers to railways with a track gauge of . It is used in many regions, including:












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Metre gauge refers to railways with a track gauge of . It is used in many regions, including:
  • Asia
    • South-east Asia
      • Vietnam
        Rail transport in Vietnam

        Tracks *total: 2,652 km*standard gauge: 180 km*narrow gauge : 2,249 km 1.000 m gauge*dual gauge: 237 km NA-m gauges ...
      • Malaysia
        Keretapi Tanah Melayu

        Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad or Malayan Railways Limited is the main rail operator in Peninsular Malaysia.Formerly known as the Malayan Railway Administration , it came to be known as KTMB after the government-led corporatisation in 1992....
      • Thailand (long haul-train)
        Rail transport in Thailand

        The railway network of Thailand is currently managed and operated by the State Railway of Thailand ....
      • Rail transport in Burma
        History of rail transport in Burma

        Sorry, no overview for this topic
        . Except for about of hill railway, the of Burmese railways is metre gauge.
    • India
      Rail gauge in India

      India currently has significant quantities of four different incompatible rail gauges. The railways consist of around 42,000 km of broad gauge railway , 17,000 km of metre gauge and an assortment of narrow gauge lines....
       - laid, being converted to Indian gauge
      Indian gauge

      Indian gauge is a Rail gauge commonly used in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Argentina and Chile.In the 1830s it was first used as rail gauge in Canada and the United States, and was then used in other British colonies....
       of under Project Unigauge
      Project Unigauge

      Project Unigauge is an ongoing exercise of the Indian Railways to standardise most of the rail gauge in India towards a single 1676 mm wide broad gauge network....


  • Americas
    • Argentina
      Rail transport in Argentina

      The Argentine railway network comprised 47,000 km of track at the end of the Second World War and was, in its time, one of most extensive and prosperous in South America....
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    • Bolivia
      Rail transport in Bolivia

      The Bolivian rail network has had a peculiar development throughout its history, owing to losses of land, prestige and credit rating due to the failure of the War of the Pacific, railway development came late to Bolivia....
       -
    • Brazil
      Rail transport in Brazil

      The rail system in Brazil operates on four rail gauges and services are operated by a variety of private and public operators.Broad gauge :...
       -
    • Chile -
  • Africa
    • Eastern Africa
    • Western Africa
      • Benin
        Transport in Benin

        This article concerns modes of transport in Benin. Benin is a country in Africa, which possesses railway and road infrastructure, as well as two seaports....
      • Mali
        Transport in Mali

        Mali's transportation infrastructure is regarded as poor, even by regional standards, and deficiencies have limited economic growth and development. Nevertheless, improvements have been noted in the early 2000s....
      • Niger
        Transport in Niger

        Transport in Niger is crucial to the economy of this vast landlocked nation, with cities separated by huge uninhabited deserts, mountain ranges, and other natural features....
  • Europe
    • Spain
      Spain

      Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
      • EuskoTran
        EuskoTran

        EuskoTran is the name of the metre gauge tramway system in Bilbao, Spain. Built in 2002 as a complement to the Bilbao metro, it is often described as the most modern public transport system in the world....
      • EuskoTren
        EuskoTren

        EuskoTren is a railway company which operates trains on part of the narrow gauge railway network in the Basque Country , Spain. The other part is run by FEVE....
      • FEVE
        FEVE

        FEVE is a state-owned Spain railway company, which operates most of Spain's 1,250 km of narrow gauge railway....
      • FGC
        Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya

        Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya , or FGC, is a railway company which operates several unconnected lines in Catalonia, Spain....
    • Switzerland
      Switzerland

      Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
    • France
      France

      France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
      • Train des pignes
        Train des pignes

        The term Train des Pignes primarily signifies the four railways with metre gauge that once existed in the departments of Alpes-Maritimes , Var , Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Bouches-du-Rh?ne in the Provence-Alpes-C?te-d'Azur r?gion in southern France:...
    • Germany
      Germany

      Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
      • Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
        Harzer Schmalspurbahnen

        |}The "Harzer Schmalspurbahn" is a network of gauge railway in the Harz mountains, in central Germany. It connects the principal cities of Wernigerode, Nordhausen and Quedlinburg and several smaller towns in the area with about 140 kilometers of track, much of which is steeply graded and picturesque....
      • Many tram
        Tram

        A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railroad car, of lighter weight and construction than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within, close to, or between villages, towns and/or cities, on tracks running primarily on streets....
         networks
    • Greece
      Greece

      Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....


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