Tag: New Zealand

The three-foot, six-inch rail gauge likely originated for horse-drawn wagonways. It is called the Colonial Gauge in New Zealand, the Cape Gauge in South Africa, the Blekinge Gauge in Sweden, and kyōki in Japan. Currently, roughly 70,000 miles, or 112,000 kilometers, of the gauge track globally are classified as narrow-gauge railways. The Derby Canal Railway, or the Little Eaton Gangway, at Little Eaton in Derbyshire, was among the first railways to use the gauge, which measures 1,067 millimeters. The five-mile-long horse-drawn wagonway operated from 1795 until 1908. Other three-foot, six-inch gauge wagonways in England and Wales were built in the