field railway
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thumb|Heeresfeldbahn [[Brigadelok:de: 0-8-0T locomotive from WWI]]
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- Subclass of
- narrow-gauge railway
- Said to be same as
- Decauville
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- Military use
- General use
- Today's situation
- ''Feldbahn'' museums and working lines
- Germany
- Baden-Württemberg
- Bavaria
- Berlin
- Brandenburg
- Hesse
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Lower Saxony
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Saxony
- Saxony-Anhalt
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Thuringia
- Austria
- Austria/Switzerland
- Switzerland
- Belgium
- Czech Republic
- Hungary
- Norway
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- External links
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thumb|Heeresfeldbahn [[Brigadelok:de: 0-8-0T locomotive from WWI]]
A ', or , is the German term for a narrow-gauge field railway', usually not open to the public, which in its simplest form provides for the transportation of agricultural, forestry () and industrial raw materials such as wood, peat, stone, earth and sand. Such goods are often transported in tipper wagons, known in German as , hence such a railway is also referred to as a .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “field railway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.