600 mm gauge railways in Germany

A list of 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) narrow-gauge railways in Germany.

A diesel locomotive and flat wagon at Eiswoog Halt on the Stumpfwald Railway in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Germany had extensive 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) 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	Installations
Baden-Württemberg	Feldbahn Rechtenstein [de]; 0.7 km, operating Kinderstraßenbahn Rumpelstilzchen [de]; 0.2 km, operating Torfbahn im Wurzacher Ried [de]; 1.5 km, a peat Feldbahn, operating Schlossgartenbahn Karlsruhe [de]; 2.7 km, a park railway, operating Wiesloch Feldbahn and Industrial Museum; ~1.2 km, open-air museum, operating
Bavaria	Neuhauser Bockerlbahn [de]; 12 km, defunct Reuth–Friedenfels line [de]; 6.6 km, defunct Sandbahn Pleinfeld [de]; 2 km, defunct Spiegelau Forest Railway; 100 km, defunct Zwieselauer Waldbahn; 14.5 km, defunct
Berlin	Berliner Parkeisenbahn; 7.50 km, operating Britzer Museumsbahn [de]; 5.0 km, operating
Brandenburg	Cottbuser Parkeisenbahn [de]; 3.20 km, operating
Hesse	Bad Orber Kleinbahn; former standard-gauge railway, partly relaid as a museum railway Feldbahn, operating Bad Schwalbacher Kurbahn [de]; 1.6 km, operating Bebra narrow gauge railway museum; operating Feld- und Grubenbahnmuseum Fortuna [de]; 2.5 km, operating Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum [de]; 1.5 km, operating Grubenbahnen Messel [de]; 1.5 km, defunct Industriebahn Roßdorf [de]; 4 km, defunct Lindelbachbahn [de]; 4.4 km, defunct Palmen-Express [de]; operating Wächtersbach–Bad Orb line [de]; 6.5 km, operating
Lower Saxony	Burgsittensen Moor Railway; operating Feldbahn Büsenbachtal [de]; 0.9 km, Feldbahn, defunct Feldbahnmuseum Hildesheim [de]; operating Inselbahn Baltrum [de]; 0.6 km, goods traffic from 1949 to 1985, defunct Weetzen–Bredenbecker Kalkwerke [de]; 6.9 km, defunct
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Anklam-Lassaner Kleinbahn [de]; 32.6 km, defunct Mecklenburg-Pommersche Schmalspurbahn [de]; 250 km, defunct Pioniereisenbahn Prerow [de]; 2 km, defunct
North Rhine-Westphalia	Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth; 1.5 km, operating Feldbahn Schermbeck [de]; defunct Feldbahnmuseum Oekoven [de]; 1 km, operating Grugabahn [de]; 3.3 km, operating Kleinbahn im Rheinpark [de]; 2 km, operating Kleinbahn im Westfalenpark [de]; 2.7 km, operating Wallückebahn [de]; 17 km, defunct
Rhineland-Palatinate	Stumpfwald Railway; operating Wasgauwaldbahn [de]; 14.5 km, defunct
Saarland	Parkeisenbahn Saarbrücken [de]; 2 km, operating
Saxony	Görlitzer Oldtimer Parkeisenbahn [de]; a park railway, operating Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz; a park railway, operating Parkeisenbahn Plauen [de]; 1 km, a park railway, operating Sächsisches Schmalspurbahn-Museum Rittersgrün [de]; a park railway, operating Waldeisenbahn Muskau; 50 km, a forest railway, part operating Waldheim–Kriebethal line [de]; regauged to standard gauge, defunct
Saxony-Anhalt	Feldbahn des Sodawerkes Staßfurt [de]; 2 km, operating Parkeisenbahn Peißnitzexpress Halle [de]; operating Pferdebahn Patzetz–Breitenhagen [de]; horse-drawn railway, 11.5 km, defunct Pioniereisenbahn Magdeburg [de]; 2.2 km, defunct Rimpau-Bahn [de]; 7 km, Feldbahn, defunct Strube-Bahn [de]; Feldbahn, a part survives as the Museumsfeldbahn Schlanstedt, operating
Schleswig-Holstein	Buchhorster Waldbahn [de]; 6 km, operating Laboe ammunition depot Feldbahn [de]; 28 km, defunct Halligbahn Lüttmoorsiel–Nordstrandischmoor; 3.5 km, operating Malente-Gremsmühlen–Lütjenburg line [de]; 17 km, converted to standard gauge, operating
Thuringia	Feldbahn Brotterode–Wernshausen [de]; 11.5 km, defunct Parkeisenbahn Gera [de]; 0.8 km, operating Steinbacher Bergwerksbahn [de]; 6 km, defunct

See also

• Narrow-gauge railways in Germany