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==Railways== Historically, special-purpose [[Narrow gauge|narrow gauge railways]] have operated, for purposes such as fish and mining.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://okj.malmborg.info/travelreports/Qoornoq_X-press/Qoornoq_X-press.htm|title = Narrow gauge railway on Greenland}}</ref> * The [[Qoornoq X-press]] in the village of [[Qoornoq]] in the [[Nuuk]] [[fjord]], . The {{RailGauge|600mm|lk=on}} Qoornoq X-press was used for transporting fish from the harbour to scaffolds for drying.<ref name="NQ">{{cite web|url=http://okj.malmborg.info/travelreports/Qoornoq_X-press/Qoornoq_X-press.htm|title=Narrow gauge railway on Greenland|access-date=June 17, 2011}}</ref> The railway cars were only flatbed wagon cars with no locomotives to move them.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://okj.malmborg.info/travelreports/Qoornoq_X-press/Qoornoq_X-press.htm|title = Narrow gauge railway on Greenland}}</ref> Built in 1955, the railway was abandoned shortly before the village around 1971.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://okj.malmborg.info/travelreports/Qoornoq_X-press/Qoornoq_X-press.htm|title = Narrow gauge railway on Greenland}}</ref> * [[Malmbjerg]] * [[Mestersvig]] β likely for the local mines that existed in the 1950s and 1960s * [[Julianehaab]] * [[Ivigtut]] β likely for the local mine that once operated in the community * [[Disko Island]] near [[Qutdligssat]] * [[Maamorilik]] * Cryolite quarry Ivigtut.<ref>https://www.jernbanen.dk/materiel.php?bid=19952</ref><ref>https://www.jernbanen.dk/materiel.php?bid=19212</ref><ref>https://www.jernbanen.dk/materiel.php?bid=19213</ref>
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