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unusual facts about Heritage railway


Buxton, New South Wales

The Loop Line was closed in 1978 due to lack of traffic, and road-bridge failure between Colo Vale and Braemar, but the section from Picton to Buxton was retained as a Heritage railway, and is still operated by the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum.


Aberdeen Railway

The section between Brechin and Bridge of Dun is operated as a heritage railway by the Caledonian Railway (Brechin).

Bay of Islands Vintage Railway

The Bay of Islands Vintage Railway Trust (BOIVRT) is a heritage railway in Kawakawa, in Northland in New Zealand.

Berlin Mills Railway 7

After a few years of idleness, though, the locomotive was leased to the Woodsville, Blackmount and Haverhill Steam Railroad, a new tourist railroad near Haverhill.

Freiburg–Colmar railway

At Volgelsheim the railway recommences, with a link to the nearby Rhine port and the Chemin de Fer Touristique du Rhin heritage railway.

Henry Haydn Jones

After the railway was revived by L. T. C. Rolt and others it prospered and became a major Welsh tourist attraction and flagship to the infant Heritage railway movement.

High Rocks

The Spa Valley Railway, a heritage railway, now connects the High Rocks pub beyond the High Rocks turnstiles to Tunbridge Wells, Groombridge and Eridge (on the London-Uckfield line of Southern Railway).

John Timpson

The station building at County School was formally opened as a heritage railway centre by John Timpson on 15 June 1990, who was brought into the station for the occasion on a short train composed of a Ruston diesel locomotive and LMS brake van.

La Trochita

Nowadays, with its original character largely unchanged, it operates as a heritage railway and was made internationally famous by the 1978 Paul Theroux book The Old Patagonian Express, which described it as the railway almost at the end of the world.

Lydney railway station

The station is located a mile south of Lydney, and was originally called Lydney Junction, which is now the name of the nearby station on the preserved Dean Forest Railway.

Shillingstone Railway Project

The Shillingstone Railway Project (formerly the Shillingstone Station Project) is a heritage railway project based at Shillingstone railway station on the former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.

Winchcombe

The stretch between Toddington and Cheltenham Racecourse, including Winchcombe, has since been reconstructed and reopened as a heritage railway called the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.


see also

Groudle Glen railway station

One of the main draws to the area today is that Groudle Glen has its own heritage railway nearby, the Groudle Glen Railway, which was built in 1896 to serve the zoo which had opened 1893 on the outer edge of the glen.

KWVR

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, a heritage railway line in West Yorkshire, England

NSJV

Nordsjællands Veterantog, a heritage railway operator in North Zealand, Denmark

NSSR

North Shore Scenic Railroad, a heritage railway between Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota, USA

Oldland Common

The village lies on the Avon Valley Railway, a three-mile long heritage railway, where it is served by Oldland Common railway station.

Silverstream

In Silverstream is the Silver Stream Railway, a heritage railway operating a number of preserved locomotives that formerly worked on New Zealand's national rail network.

South Australian Railways 350 class

Both were withdrawn in 1979 with 350 sold to SteamRanger and 351 to a preservation group at Moonta for a proposed heritage railway operation but the venture did not continue and the Australian Railway Historical Society purchased the unit and restored the locomotive to operating condition at Dry Creek depot.