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→Standard Gauge(SG): 'Bombay City Improvement Trust Railways' and 'Salsette Trombay Railway' added
Later, two even narrower gauges (2' and 2' 6") were allowed to be used for feeder lines.
====Standard Gauge(SG)====
Although this 4 ft 8 1⁄2 8½ in (1,435 mm) gauge was the most usual throughout the world it was not adopted in India. There were two a few exceptions:-
*'''[[Yamuna River, Okhla Canal Construction Tramway]]''' used from 1869 to 1874 to build the headworks from the Yamuna River at Okhla. It was Standard Gauge tramway used to carry stone.
*'''[[Calcutta Tramways Company]]''' adopted the Standard Gauge on its electric tramcars from 1900 onwards, on conversion from the MG horse drawn tram system.
*'''[[Bombay City Improvement Trust Railways]]''' The records show a total of twenty-one standard gauge ([[Rail_gauge#Standard_Gauge|SG]]) locomotives dating from 1920-23 that were supplied to the Bombay City Improvement Trust Schemes. The destiny of these locomotives on completion of the schemes in the mid 1920's is unknown.
*'''[[Salsette Trombay Railway]]''' The records show that eight SG locomotives dating from 1921-22 were supplied for the '[[Salsette Trombay Railway]]' which did not commence operations until 1928.
<blockquote>''It is interesting to speculate how, in the 1920's when BG was becoming the norm, both the 'Bombay City Improvement Trust' and the '[[Salsette Trombay Railway]]' came to use the Standard Gauge (SG)''</blockquote>
=====Unique rail Gauges=====
*'''[[Arakkonam-Conjeevaram Tramway]]''', absorbed into the [[Indian Tramway Co.]] was a 3'6"(1067mm) gauge line which opened in 1865, converted in 1878 to MG.
*'''[[Chirimiri Colliery Railway]]''' used a 3ft 0in(915mm) gauge locomotives operational from 1932.
=====Gauge conversion=====
Following the introduction of the metre gauge, the Government of India([[Government of India |GoI]]) occasionally allowed existing broad gauge lines to be converted to metre gauge and ''vice versa'' where expedient.
=====Transhipment=====
Despite four Commissions of Inquiry, the GoI did little te resolve the continuing problem of transhipment wherever there was a break-of-gauge.
