Breitspurbahn

Breitspurbahn

East–West Mainline

Munich branch

to Netherlands

Spanish branch

Bavaria to Holland line

Bavaria to Holland line

to Netherlands

Northwest–Southeast
Mainline

Welthauptstadt Germania

Northwest–Southeast
Mainline

East–West Mainline

Prague branch

Moscow branch

Arctic branch

Munich branch

to Lapland & Kirkenes

Prague branch

Italian branch

Kabul branch

to India

to Syria

Vladivostok branch

Odessa branch

to U.S. via Canada

Stalingrad branch

to India via Iran

to India



	Minimum
	Fifteen inch	381 mm	(1 ft 3 in)

	Narrow
	600 mm	600 mm	(1 ft 11+5⁄8 in)
	Two foot	610 mm	(2 ft)
	Two foot three inch	686 mm	(2 ft 3 in)
	750 mm	750 mm	(2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
	Bosnian gauge	760 mm	(2 ft 5+15⁄16 in)
	Two foot six inch	762 mm	(2 ft 6 in)
	Swedish three foot	891 mm	(2 ft 11+3⁄32 in)
	900 mm	900 mm	(2 ft 11+7⁄16 in)
	Three foot	914 mm	(3 ft)
	Italian metre	950 mm	(3 ft 1+13⁄32 in)
	Metre	1,000 mm	(3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
	Three foot six inch	1,067 mm	(3 ft 6 in)
	Four foot	1,219 mm	(4 ft)
	Four foot six inch	1,372 mm	(4 ft 6 in)
	1432 mm	1,432 mm	(4 ft 8+3⁄8 in)

	Standard	1,435 mm	(4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)

	Broad
	Italian broad gauge	1,445 mm	(4 ft 8+7⁄8 in)
	Dresden gauge	1,450 mm	(4 ft 9+3⁄32 in)
	Leipzig gauge	1,458 mm	(4 ft 9+13⁄32 in)
	Toronto gauge	1,495 mm	(4 ft 10+7⁄8 in)
	1520 mm	1,520 mm	(4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)
	Five foot	1,524 mm	(5 ft)
	Pennsylvania gauge	1,581 mm	(5 ft 2+1⁄4 in)
	Pennsylvania gauge	1,588 mm	(5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
	Five foot three inch	1,600 mm	(5 ft 3 in)
	Baltimore gauge	1,638 mm	(5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
	Iberian gauge	1,668 mm	(5 ft 5+21⁄32 in)
	Five foot six inch	1,676 mm	(5 ft 6 in)
	Six foot	1,829 mm	(6 ft)
	Brunel	2,140 mm	(7 ft 1⁄4 in)
	Breitspurbahn	3,000 mm	(9 ft 101⁄8 in)

The Breitspurbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁaɪtʃpuːɐ̯baːn], transl. broad-gauge railway) was a railway system planned and partly surveyed by Nazi Germany. Its track gauge – the distance between the two running rails – was to be 3000 mm (9 ft 10+1⁄8 in), more than twice that of the 1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge used in western Europe. The railway was intended initially to run between major cities of the Greater Germanic Reich (the regime's expanded Germany) and neighbouring states.