List of 2 ft 3 in gauge railways
A list of known 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow track gauge railways:
Corris Railway
Talyllyn Railway
| Name | Opened | Closed | Length | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway [1][2] | 1877 | 1932[3] | 6 miles (9.7 km) | Mull of Kintyre, Scotland | Remote line serving coal mines and passengers on the Kintyre peninsula. |
| Caphouse Colliery[4] | 1988 | present | c. 2,000 yards (1,800 m) | National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield | Demonstration funicular railway. |
| Corris Railway | 1859 | present | 12 1⁄4 miles (19.7 km) [3] | Machynlleth, Wales | Built to carry slate from the Corris district. Closed after flooding of the Afon Dyfi. Reopened in 2002. |
| Glasgow Royal Infirmary Railway[5] | circa 1910 | circa 1920 | c. 400 feet (122 m) | Glasgow, Scotland | Railway underground in the basement of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Operated by a battery-electric locomotive, and carried laundry. Closed following an accident in 1920, but sections of rail are still visible in the basement. |
| Hendra China Stone Quarry[6] | 1860s | 1967 after | Unknown | Nanpean, England | Internal quarry tramway system with cable hauled inclines. |
| Huncoat Colliery | Unknown | 1968?[7] | Unknown | Huncoat, England | National Coal Board mine railway. One diesel was sold to the Talyllyn Railway, and runs as No. 9 Alf.[8][9] |
| Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway[3] | 1897 | 1899 | 7 miles (11.3 km)[3] | Talybont, Wales | Short-lived line serving the lead mines around Hafan. |
| Quarry Close China Stone Works[6] | 1863 | 1973 | Unknown | Nanpean, England | A network of lines connecting several quarries to the GWR branch line from Drinnick Mill. |
| Talyllyn Railway[3] | 1865 | present | 7 1⁄4 miles (11.7 km) | Tywyn, Wales | Built to carry slate from Bryneglwys quarry to the coast. |
| York Gasworks Company[10] | 1915 | 1959 | c. 400 feet (120 m) | York, England | Electrified railway, operated by a locomotive built by Dick, Kerr & Co. |
Similar gauges
No railways of an identical gauge are known outside Britain, though lines of 700 mm (2 ft 3 9⁄16 in) are known in Latvia and Romania (see Narrow gauge railway) and several Cuban sugar cane railways.[11]
Other British railways of similar, but not identical, gauge were:
- Snailbeach District Railways, 2 ft 4 in (711 mm) gauge
- Welbeck Colliery, Nottinghamshire, 2 ft 4 in (711 mm) gauge,[12] which closed in 2010.[13]
- Glyn Valley Tramway, 2 ft 4 1⁄2 in (724 mm) gauge
See also
References
- ↑ Nigel S.C. Macmillan (1970). The Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway. David & Charles: Newton Abbot.
- ↑ "Macrihanish Online". 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Whitehouse, Patrick & Snell, John (1984). Narrow gauge railways of the British Isles. David & Charles. ISBN 0715301969.
- ↑ Keith Turner (2002). Cliff Railways of the British Isles. The Oakwood Press. p. 119.
- ↑ Voice, David (2007). Hospital Tramways and Railways (3rd ed.). Adam Gordon. p. 43. ISBN 978 1 874422 67 9.
- 1 2 Dart, Maurice (2005). Cornwall Narrow Gauge including the Camborne & Redruth tramway. Middleton Press. ISBN 190447456X.
- ↑ Colliery closed 1968. "The Huncoat Trails". Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ↑ Bate, J.H.L. (2001). The Chronicles of Pendre Sidings. RailRomances. pp. 158, 160. ISBN 1-900622-05-X.
- ↑ Potter, D. (1990). The Talyllyn Railway. David St John Thomas. p. 202. ISBN 0-946537-50-X.
- ↑ Mitchell, Vic & Smith, Keith (2003). Branch Line to the Derwent Valley, including the Foss Islands Branch. Midhurst: Middleton Press. plate 24. ISBN 1-904474-06-3.
- ↑ "Sugar Cane Railways in Cuba, 2003" (PDF).
- ↑ "Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways in England". Retrieved 6 May 2014.
- ↑ "Century of mining ends at Welbeck Colliery". BBC news. 11 May 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
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