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    thousand British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways. Many notable...
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    Some industrial narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man were primarily built to serve quarrying, mining, and similar industries...
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    industrial narrow-gauge railways included mining, logging, construction, tunnelling, quarrying, and conveying agricultural products. Extensive narrow-gauge networks...
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    British industrial narrow gauge railways British narrow gauge railways British quarrying and mining narrow gauge railways Decauville Forest railway Light...
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  • British industrial narrow-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man that were primarily built to serve one or...
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    often not between a narrow- and standard-gauge railway, but between a narrow-gauge railway and none at all. Broader gauge railways are generally more expensive...
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    The 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...
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    vision for the railways, seeing them as a way of stimulating the internal growth of Greece and proposed a 417 kilometres (259 mi) narrow-gauge (1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in))...
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    Caernarvonshire 25" plan 1914 "Industrial Railways – Dinorwic Quarries and Padarn Railway". Narrow Gauge Railway Museum. Archived from the original on 16...
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    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...
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    3 in gauge railways List of British heritage and private railways British narrow gauge railways The Great Little Trains of Wales "Abercorris and Aberdovey...
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    (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in), and 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom. Trains portal British narrow-gauge railways The Great Little...
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    related to Mining railways. Grubenbahn.de - mine railway site Schmalspurige Grubenbahn.de - narrow gauge mine railway site Kohlebahn - coal railway site Fond-de-Gras...
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    the full extent of the railway. Sir Arthur wished to explore the possibilities of minimum gauge railways for mining, quarrying, agriculture etc. He believed...
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  • private individuals in Great Britain own collections of narrow-gauge railway equipment or operate short railways. These railways are generally not open to...
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    equip and operate than standard gauge railways (particularly in mountainous or difficult terrain). Narrow gauge railways in Britain used various gauges. 2 ft 3 in...
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    Bramley, Surrey (category Use British English from May 2016)
    Brickworks (1936) Ltd were its major operator, see British quarrying and mining narrow gauge railways. The average level of accommodation in the region...
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  • 1850s that railways would be built by the private sector. Private companies built railways in the then colonies of Victoria, opened in 1854, and New South...
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    The Ashover Light Railway was a 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow gauge railway in Derbyshire, England that connected Clay Cross and Ashover. It was built...
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    The Statfold Barn Railway is a narrow gauge railway based near Tamworth, Staffordshire and partially in Warwickshire, England. Founded by engineering entrepreneur...
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  • preserving railway heritage and as a tourist attraction. Apart from that, numerous railway museums and heritage railways (mostly narrow gauge) own steam...
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  • Narrow Gauge Railways in Britain. Truro: D. Bradford Barton. ISBN 0-85153-236-5. Industrial Locomotives 1979: including preserved and minor railway locomotives...
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    Festiniog Railway 1800 - 1974; Vol. 2 - Locomotives and Rolling Stock; Quarries and Branches: Rebirth 1954-74. The British Narrow Gauge Railway. Blandford:...
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  • Mineral Tramway Trails (category Use British English from September 2017)
    mining narrow-gauge railways Rail trail Cornish Way - a cycle route which links to the Mineral Tramway Trails "Mining Trails" (PDF). Cornish Mining. Retrieved...
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    Welsh slate industry and narrow-gauge railways, situated in the Oakeley slate quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog. It opened in 1974 and closed in 1998 following...
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    Stafford in 1926 and named after Sir Tom Callender of British Insulated Callender's Cables (BICC). This 0-4-0 saddle tank narrow gauge locomotive worked...
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    Hunslet Engine Company (category Use British English from March 2014)
    locomotives, significant examples being lightweight narrow gauge 4-6-0T designs for the War Department Light Railways. After the First World War, Hunslet was once...
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  • (1995). Locomotives & Railcars of the Spanish Narrow Gauge Public Railways. London, UK: Industrial Railway Society. ISBN 0 901096 88-1. "Spanish preserved...
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    (Riesi) mining site, which houses a rich historical-technical itinerary on the saga of Sicilian sulfur mines. Sulphur Crisis of 1840 Narrow-gauge railways in...
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  • The Moseley Railway Trust is a major British collection of industrial narrow gauge locomotives and other equipment. It originally had its base in south...
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