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  • Thumbnail for North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways
    The North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways (NWNGR) was a railway company that planned to build a number of inter-connected 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow-gauge...
    14 KB (1,504 words) - 16:42, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
    Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. The museum has a collection of more than 1,000 items from over eighty narrow-gauge railways in Wales, England...
    15 KB (1,419 words) - 19:37, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Talyllyn Railway
    Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow-gauge railway in Wales running for 7+1⁄4 miles (12 km) from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to...
    70 KB (8,329 words) - 19:47, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ffestiniog Railway
    Ffestiniog Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a heritage railway based on 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow-gauge, located in Gwynedd, Wales. It is a...
    54 KB (7,127 words) - 12:14, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Standard-gauge railway
    A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in). The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George...
    55 KB (3,605 words) - 21:56, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rail gauge in Australia
    403 mi) of narrow-gauge railways, 18,007 kilometres (11,189 mi) of standard gauge railways and 2,685 kilometres (1,668 mi) of broad gauge railways. In the...
    43 KB (4,402 words) - 12:51, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bala Lake Railway
    Bala Lake Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Llyn Tegid) is a narrow-gauge railway along the southern shore of Bala Lake in Gwynedd, North Wales. The line,...
    16 KB (1,709 words) - 19:59, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of track gauges
    railways, the gauges are overlapping. There are also some extreme narrow gauge railways listed. See: Distinction between a ridable miniature railway and a minimum...
    52 KB (1,228 words) - 13:19, 13 May 2024
  • 2008. Books Boyd, James I.C. (1970) [1965]. Narrow Gauge Railways in Mid-Wales. The British Narrow Gauge Railway (2nd ed.). Lingfield, Surrey: The Oakwood...
    17 KB (1,428 words) - 08:29, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Break of gauge
    With railways, a break of gauge occurs where a line of one track gauge (the distance between the rails, or between the wheels of trains designed to run...
    47 KB (5,693 words) - 16:33, 17 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway
    Snowdon Railway (PB&SSR) was a 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow gauge railway intended to connect Porthmadog (then spelled Portmadoc) with the North Wales Narrow...
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  • Thumbnail for Penrhyn Quarry Railway
    The Penrhyn Quarry Railway was a narrow-gauge railway in Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales. It served the Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda, taking their...
    24 KB (2,487 words) - 00:17, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brecon Mountain Railway
    related to Brecon Mountain Railway. British narrow gauge railways List of British heritage and private railways List of closed railway lines in Great Britain...
    12 KB (808 words) - 20:35, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rail transport in New South Wales
    for the New South Wales Railways, serving between 1856 and 1899. Construction of the shorter and single-gauge North Coast railway line between Sydney...
    30 KB (3,023 words) - 03:46, 12 April 2024
  • British railway museums. Many of the standard-gauge railways listed, including former branch lines and ex-mainline routes, were closed by British Railways under...
    37 KB (2,653 words) - 06:53, 2 June 2024
  • (1995). Locomotives & Railcars of the Spanish Narrow Gauge Public Railways. London, UK: Industrial Railway Society. ISBN 0 901096 88-1. "Spanish preserved...
    49 KB (878 words) - 16:27, 9 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
    Light Railway (W&LLR) (Welsh: Rheilffordd y Trallwng a Llanfair Caereinion) is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway in Powys, Wales. The...
    22 KB (1,435 words) - 22:10, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Llanberis Lake Railway
    the Railways of Great Britain: North and mid Wales. David & Charles. "Bala Lake Railway" (PDF). Narrow Gauge News. No. 95. The Narrow Gauge Railway Society...
    13 KB (1,156 words) - 23:17, 7 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nantlle Railway
    The Nantlle Railway (or Nantlle Tramway) was a Welsh narrow gauge railway. It was built to carry slate from several slate quarries across the Nantlle...
    18 KB (1,989 words) - 15:58, 31 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Track gauge in Ireland
    Irish gauge List of narrow gauge railways in Ireland Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846 Steaming into the Future Friel, Charles P. "Railways in Craigavon"...
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