Snailbeach District Railways was a British narrow gauge railway in Shropshire. It was built to carry lead ore from mines in the Stiperstones to Pontesbury...

men who died serving in the Second World War. Snailbeach Countryside Site Snailbeach District Railways Minsterley, Stiperstones Listed buildings in Worthen...

him to design and build railways in his own right. He immediately set about his lifetime's project of operating light railways for rural areas, mostly...

Railway. Other lines such as the Glyn Valley Tramway and the Snailbeach District Railways were able to replace ageing locomotives relatively cheaply and...

(8 km) Rye and Camber Tramway: 3 ft (914 mm); 3 miles (5 km) Snailbeach District Railways: 2 feet 4 inches (710 mm); 3+1⁄4 miles (5 km) Snowdon Mountain...

narrow-gauge railways which used them included: Welsh Highland Railway Glyn Valley Tramway Snailbeach District Railways Ashover Light Railway Rainham Cement...

1877 for the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, and Belmont (an 0-4-2 saddle tank), which ran on the Snailbeach District Railways, and three 2 ft 3 in (686 mm)...

mining history, once linked to Snailbeach and Hanwood via the Minsterley branch line and the Snailbeach District Railways, it supplied local industry with...

of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails. For ridable miniature railways and minimum gauge railways, the...

British railways of similar, but not identical, gauge were: Snailbeach District Railways, 2 ft 4 in (711 mm) gauge Welbeck Colliery, Nottinghamshire,...

few went to railways in Britain including: Ashover Light Railway Glyn Valley Tramway Snailbeach District Railways Welsh Highland Railway Rainham Cement...

engine shed illustrated in the book is based on that at Snailbeach on the Snailbeach District Railways. "You Can't Win!" is the only story in this book whose...

Hughes for the Snailbeach District Railway and named Belmont. This locomotive was scrapped in 1912. In December 1885, the Talyllyn Railway wrote to the...

the Ashover Light Railway, Glyn Valley Tramway, Snailbeach District Railways and the Welsh Highland Railway. The Welsh Highland Railway in Wales bought...

OO gauge model railways. It thus represents the prototype gauge of just over 2 ft 4 in (711 mm) (e.g. the Snailbeach District Railways), although also...

also the tramway's Engineer. He was also the Engineer for the Snailbeach District Railways, near Shrewsbury. When rebuilding of the line began in 1887,...

Amendment Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 106) Railways Construction Facilities Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 121) Railways (Powers and Construction) Acts 1864, Amendment...

the S&WR at Pontesbury by the 2 ft 4 in (711 mm) narrow gauge Snailbeach District Railways which opened in 1873 and closed in 1959. The Minsterley branch...

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway Fayle's Tramways The Furzebrook Railway The Snailbeach District Railways Steam South & West Ships & Shipbuilders of a West Country...

The Mauritius Government Railways ordered one in 1907. The largest rail motor order was for 15 from the Italian State Railways. See also Kerr Stuart steam...

the Forest of Dean regions. Snailbeach Lead Mine Mainly ironstone quarries Russell that ran at the Brymbo Ironstone Railway Peckett metre gauge locomotive...

its own railway network: Snailbeach District Railways. Relics from the mine workings can still be found today at the nearby village of Snailbeach. The first...

Junction Railway Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. ccii) North Cornwall Railway Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. ccliv) Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway Act 1882...

Southwold Railway. Ian Allan Publishing. Tonks, Eric (1974). The Snailbeach District Railways. Industrial Railway Society. Tonks, Eric (1985). Railway Preservation...

transfer sidings connected the narrow gauge Snailbeach District Railway, which ran to lead mines at Snailbeach. On 14 February 1861, the first section of...

at Minsterley and lead ore to be transported from the nearby mines at Snailbeach. At one time the terminus in Minsterley boasted a milk wharf, goods shed...

lxxvii) Bank Post Bills Composition (Ireland) Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 86) Railway Regulation Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85) Dogs Regulation (Ireland) Act 1865...

Hill, and around the village of Condover. Lead mining also took place at Snailbeach and the Stiperstones, but this has now ceased. Other primary industries...

Educational Centre) Snailbeach Lead Mine Shropshire Snailbeach Lead 52°37′00″N 2°55′28″W / 52.6166°N 2.9245°W / 52.6166; -2.9245 (Snailbeach Lead Mine) Cleveland...