A display of a narrow gauge industrial sand train

An industrial railway is a type of private railway used exclusively to serve a particular industry inside a mine or factory compound. Industrial railways were once very common, but with the rise of road transport, their numbers have greatly diminished. Narrow-gauge railways are railroads (railways) with track spaced at less than the standard gauge of 4 ft 8 in (1. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... An industry is generally any grouping of businesses that share a common method of generating profits, such as the movie industry, the automobile industry, or the cattle industry. It is also used specifically to refer to an area of economic production focused on manufacturing which involves large amounts of upfront... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... A factory (previously manufactory) is a large industrial building where goods or products are manufactured. ... Disruptions in organized traffic flow can create delays lasting hours. ...

As an example, an industrial railway would transport say clay from a quarry to an interchange point with a main line railway, where it would be transported to its final destination. The line would be owned and operated by the quarry company, and would exist soley to serve the quarry. For the town in the United States, see Clay, New York. ...

Most industrial railways are short, usually being only a few kilometres long, but there are notable exceptions—examples of which include the iron ore-carrying railways in Western Australia which are hundreds of kilometres in length and exist to transport iron ore from the inland to the coast. This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ... Motto: Cygnis Insignis (Distinguished by its swans) (not included on official coat of arms) Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Governor HE Lieutenant General John Sanderson Premier Dr Geoff Gallop (ALP) Area 2,645,615 km² (1st)  - Land 2,529,875 km²  - Water 115,740 km² (4. ... This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ...

As well as quarries, industrial railways can serve many different types of industry. In Cuba a large number of industrial railways exist to serve the sugarcane industry. In Colorado, the Coors Brewing Company uses its own industrial railway to shuttle rolling stock around the brewery both for the delivery of raw materials and shipping finished product. Industrial railways are also used to serve places such as ammunition dumps. The Republic of Cuba is an archipelago in the northern Caribbean that lies at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. ... Species Ref: ITIS 42058 as of 2004-05-05 Sugarcane is one of six species of a tall tropical southeast Asian grass (Family Poaceae) having stout fibrous jointed stalks whose sap at one time was the primary source of sugar. ... There are also three Colorado Rivers: two in the United States and one in Argentina. ... The Coors Brewing Company is one of the worlds largest brewers of beer. ... A railroad car (or, more briefly, car), also known as an item of rolling stock in British parlance, is a vehicle on a railroad or railway that is not a locomotive - one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are powered. ... An ammunition dump, or ammo dump, is a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives. ...

Many industrial railways were narrow gauge, although there were some standard gauge railways. Narrow-gauge railways are railroads (railways) with track spaced at less than the standard gauge of 4 ft 8 in (1. ... As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the two rails of the track) which should be used. ...