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narrow gauge

a railway track with a smaller distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 56½ inches
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The Talyllyn Railway is a narrow gauge railway opened for goods traffic in 1865 and shortly after for passenger services, which have operated every year since between Tywyn and Nant Gwernol just over seven miles inland.
The Brecon Mountain Railway is now a popular tourist attraction drawing visitors from around the world, fulfilling Tony's vision for a successful narrow gauge railway.
Stan Lawler, secretary of Woodhorn Narrow Gauge Railway Society, said: "Keeping our original Hunslet in service was becoming increasingly difficult.
She attended the local primary school before going on to secondary school in Blaenau Ffestiniog, travelling there like all the children by narrow gauge railway every day.
The Mull and West Highland Narrow Gauge Railway Company were started by local businessman Graham Ellis to take tourists from the ferry terminal at Craignure to the castle gardens.
Watch the scenery roll past when you ride the West Somerset Steam Railway between Bishops Lydeard and Minehead, the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway and the reopened section of the Lynton and Barnstaple narrow gauge railway from Woody Bay Station to Parracombe.
By building a new eight-mile line through Beddgelert to link two existing lines, he created Britain's longest narrow gauge railway at more than 20 miles between Portmadoc and (almost) Caernarvon.
To savour the Lakes as they were years ago, go west and take England's oldest narrow gauge railway from Ravenglass and chug seven miles through quiet, green Eskdale.
Railway part of steel heritage bid PLANS for a narrow gauge railway have been submitted as part of a new major visitor attraction.
Trains which run on the narrow gauge railway take about 18,000 visitors a year on a mile-long journey from Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland to the lake in the nearby Queen Elizabeth II Country Park and back.
Families can enjoy the narrow gauge railway, a children's adventure playground, farm trail, pets corner and Fairytale Land.
A UNIQUE partnership between a drug and alcohol rehabilitation agency, a training firm and a narrow gauge railway has paid off for more than 30 people.
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