The Beeches Light Railway was a private narrow gauge railway in Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, England, in the garden of Adrian Shooter. The line contained...
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"Beeches Light Railway 73". Retrieved 25 June 2022 – via Flickr. Beeches Light Railway coach 73. Based on an existing Darjeeling Himalayan Railway coach...
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Adrian Shooter (category British people associated with Heritage Railways)
with railways, both commercial and preserved, including the Ffestiniog Railway, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and his own Beeches Light Railway. Adrian...
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based on Beeches Light Railway, a private railway in Oxfordshire, and has also run on the Ffestiniog Railway, the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway, the Launceston...
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nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s. They are named for Dr. Richard Beeching, then-chair of the British Railways Board and the...
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on Beeches Light Railway 761 (later 38) - Launceston Steam Railway 803 – Buckinghamshire Railway Centre 806 (later 42) - Launceston Steam Railway 807...
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owned Beeches Light Railway in Oxfordshire, and visited the Ffestiniog Railway, the Launceston Steam Railway and the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway during...
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until 1 October 1906 that a halt named Beeches Halt was opened in the small settlement, at the north end of Beeches Avenue (at the time called Beechnut Tree...
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conservation area. On the edge of the village was the narrow-gauge Beeches Light Railway owned by Adrian Shooter. Steeple Aston has one school, Dr. Radcliffe's...
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DHR B Class (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1889)
underwent restoration before spending two decades operating at the Beeches Light Railway. Initially, all members of the class were liveried in DHR green...
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Day 1983. Permission to operate the railway was granted by The Launceston Light Railway Order 1982. The railway was extended progressively, the latest...
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The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway (LBLR) is a light railway in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, England. It operates on 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge track...
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The Beech Grove Shops is a railway maintenance facility in Beech Grove, Indiana, outside Indianapolis. Beech Grove is Amtrak's primary maintenance facility...
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The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway is a 10+1⁄4 in (260 mm) gauge heritage railway in Norfolk, England running between the coastal town of Wells-next-the-Sea...
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Bekonscot Light Railway, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire Blenheim Park Railway, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire Beech Hurst Park Miniature Railway, Haywards...
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Gauge Railway Society. June 1983. Stuart Chapman (1 July 2017). Eynsford Light Railway (YouTube). Retrieved 4 March 2020. "Gartell Light Railway web site"...
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Cyfronydd Hall (section Railway)
valley. An intimate study overlooks the rear garden, with its towering beeches, oaks and cedars. The first floor houses the splendid master suite and...
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narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom. Trains portal British narrow-gauge railways The Great Little Trains of Wales Heritage railway 2 ft gauge railroads...
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Railway where a short stub led into a field. March 2023 saw the opening of a new miniature railway, the 12+1⁄4 in (311 mm) gauge 'Mease Valley Light Railway'...
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several appearances in the programme. Oh, Doctor Beeching! focuses on the small fictional branch line railway station of Hatley, which has been disorganised...
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Alan Keef Ltd (category 10¼ in gauge railways in the United Kingdom)
works at Leighton Buzzard Light Railway and more recently No 794 (referred to as No 590) from the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway. However, this project...
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Eryholme–Richmond line (redirect from Catterick Camp Military Railway)
This venture was revisited in 1912 with a Light Railway Order being granted for the Swaledale Light Railway Company, but again this faltered and was never...
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Waverley Route (redirect from Waverley Railway)
the Beeching Report. Part of the line, from Edinburgh to Tweedbank, reopened in September 2015. The reopened railway is known as the Borders Railway. The...
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Whistlestop Valley (redirect from Kirklees light railway)
formerly the Kirklees Light Railway, is a visitor attraction featuring a 3+1⁄2-mile (5.6 km) long 15 in (381 mm) gauge minimum gauge railway. The attraction's...
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the reversal of some of the Beeching closures of the 1960s. In London the Docklands Light Railway made use of disused railway infrastructure for much of...
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closed in 1966 as part of the Beeching axe despite protests from the local community. The initial Somerset and Dorset Railway (S&DR) was created on 1 September...
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The Bromyard and Linton Light Railway is a 1-mile (1.6 km) single track, 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway line that runs between Bromyard and the Linton...
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independent preserved heritage railways, and of expansions to state-backed National Rail and local rapid transit/light rail networks. Many more of these...
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The Beeching cuts were a reduction in the size of the British railway network, along with a restructuring of British Rail, in the 1960s. Since the mid-1990s...
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station. Bentley was the northern terminus of the Bentley and Bordon Light Railway, built in 1905 to serve the military camp at Bordon. Built with assistance...
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