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unusual facts about Narrow gauge railway



Animas River

The Durango and Silverton Narrow gauge railroad follows the river through the canyon to Durango.

Ardkinglas Railway

The Ardkinglas Railway was a narrow gauge estate railway built to serve the Ardkinglas Estate, former seat of Sir James Campbell, 2nd Baronet, of Ardkinglass on the shores of Loch Fyne.

Arzamassky District

A narrow gauge railway serving the Peshelan gypsum mine is located in the village of Bebyayevo.

Atlantic and Danville Railway

Short branches from main line led to West Norfolk, Hitchcock Mills, and Buffalo Lithia Springs, Virginia, and a 50-mile narrow gauge line ran from Emporia, at a junction with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), northeast to Claremont on the James River.

Betws-y-Coed railway station

The original plans envisaged a railhead at Betws-y-Coed and a large goods yard was established with intended interchange to a proposed narrow gauge line (with a significant saving in construction costs) via the steeply graded Lledr Valley to Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Bieszczadzka Forest Railway

Bieszczadzka Forest Railway (Polish: Bieszczadzka Kolejka Leśna) is a narrow gauge railway built in a sparsely populated, forest region of Bieszczady Mountains.

Bogatynia

The town used to be connected via narrow gauge railway lines opened in 1884 to Zittau and to the Bohemian border, where it was linked with the Frýdlant–Heřmanice Railway in 1900.

Cedryn Quarry Tramway

The Cedryn Quarry Tramway (later largely used as the route of the Eigiau Tramway) was an industrial narrow gauge railway that connected the slate quarries at Cedryn and Cwm Eigiau to the quays at Dolgarrog in the Conwy valley.

Cochin State Forest Tramway

Cochin State Forest Tramway is narrow gauge railway line and a historical forest tramway running from the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary in Palakkad District to Chalakudy in Thrissur District.

Exmoor Steam Railway

The Exmoor Steam Railway is a narrow gauge steam railway and locomotive manufacturer, located at Bratton Fleming in North Devon.

Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway

The Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway (or Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway) was a narrow gauge railway created by Rowland Emett.

Federated Malay States

This period also saw rapid growth in terms of communications infrastructure such as interstate roads, a narrow gauge railway line from Penang to Singapore, and the Port Swettenham (present day Port Klang).

Green Mountain Cog Railway

The Green Mountain Cog Railway was a narrow gauge mountain railway built to carry tourists to the top of Green Mountain (now known as Cadillac Mountain) on Mount Desert Island in Maine.

Hicks Locomotive and Car Works

In addition, Hicks purchased four Jackson & Sharp Co. narrow gauge coaches from the Ulster & Delaware R.R. between August 1899 & June 1900 and resold them to the White Pass and Yukon Route in May 1901 (WP&YR ##218, 220, 222, and 224).

History of rail transport in Spain

Apart from the widespread broad-gauge lines, a large system of narrow gauge railways was built in the more mountainous parts of Spain, especially in the north coast of the country, where narrow gauge was the most adequate option.

Knebworth Park and Winter Green Railway

The Knebworth and Winter Green Railway was a narrow gauge railway built in the grounds of Knebworth House in 1972 as a tourist attraction.

Little Eaton Gangway

The Little Eaton Gangway, or, to give it its official title, the Derby Canal Railway, was a narrow gauge industrial wagonway serving the Derby Canal, in England, at Little Eaton in Derbyshire.

Murtajapur

Murtajapur railway station is the junction station of the 762mm narrow gauge railway known locally as the Shakuntala Railway.

Nevada and Oregon Railroad

The Nevada and Oregon Railroad was an American narrow gauge railroad that operated from Reno, Nevada, then northwest to the California state line near present day Hallelujah Junction.

Robinson Forest

By 1914 a narrow gauge railroad was constructed, connecting the once isolated region to the sawmills in West Irvine and Quicksand, thereby providing access to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

Tamsweg

It can also be reached by the terminal station of the Murtalbahn narrow gauge railway to the Austrian Southern Railway (Südbahn) at Unzmarkt-Frauenburg.

Transport in Hobart

Hobart has a narrow gauge railway corridor which starts at the city centre and travels north towards Bridgewater.

Vía Verde de la Sierra de la Demanda

In 1896 the British company "The Sierra Company Limited" got permission from the Spanish government to build a narrow gauge railway to transport iron from the mines of the Sierra de la Demanda to Burgos, and once there to the Basque steel mills through the Burgos-Bilbao railway line.

Walter Knott

Early additions to the farm included the Ghost Town & Calico Railway, a narrow gauge railroad in the Ghost Town area, a San Francisco cable car, a Pan-for-Gold attraction, the Calico Mine Train dark ride and the Timber Mountain Log Ride log flume ride.

Whaleyville, Virginia

Between 1885 and 1902, the Suffolk and Carolina Railway, a narrow gauge railroad was built from Suffolk through Whaleyville south to Edenton, North Carolina.

Wittow Ferry

Not until the opening of the 37.9 km long 750-mm narrow gauge railway line from Bergen via Trent, Wittow Ferry and Wiek to Altenkirchen of the Rügen Light Railway (RüKB) d on 21 December 1896 was there a regular and capable ferry service.

Yarralumla brickworks

Narrow gauge goods railway lines for the transportation of bricks linked Yarralumla to some of the major building sites in central Canberra such as Old Parliament House, and the Kingston Power House.


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Apsheronsky

Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway (Apsheronskaya railway), a narrow-gauge railway in Krasnodar Krai, Russia

Arbatax

The town is connected to Lanusei and Cagliari with a narrow gauge railway, today used for turistic purposes, owned by Ferrovie della Sardegna.

Breitengüßbach–Dietersdorf railway

A link to Thuringian Lindenau, also only six kilometres from Dietersdorf, where the narrow gauge railway from Hildburghausen ended, also failed to materialise.

Cigarette smuggling

A 700-meters smuggling tunnel with a narrow gauge railway was revealed in July 2012 between Uzhgorod (Ukraine) and Vyšné Nemecké (Slovakia), at the border of Schengen Area.

Dhamtari

As a terminus of a narrow-gauge railway running 80 km (50 miles) north of Raipur on the main Bombay-Calcutta line of the Bengal Nagpur Railway, Dhamtari became a trade centre.

Douglas Road Corner

In 1879 the Manx Northern Railway built a narrow gauge railway from St.John's to Ramsey which ran parallel to the A3 and A4 roads from St. Germain's through Kirk Michael to Sulby Bridge.

Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway

During the Maharaja's reign, a large narrow-gauge railway network was set, which extended to Becharaji and many other places in Baroda State, with Dabhoi as its focal point.

Gorno Kraishte

Gorno Kraishte has two road links, to Razlog and Belovo and a narrow gauge railway link - Belitsa station.

Heeresfeldbahn

For example, in the 1870s, when the Imperial and Royal Military Railway built a supply line from Bosnian Brod to Zenica in Bosnia was quickly expanded into a fully operational narrow gauge railway for general use, thus founding the extensive railway network built to the so-called Bosnian gauge of 760 mm.

Kiarighat

The nearest Airport in Jubbal Hatti and nearest narrow gauge railway station is Kandaghat.

Mayurbhanj State Railway

Mayurbhanj State Railway / Mourbhanj State Railway (MSR) was a narrow gauge railway originally owned by Mayurbhanj State and worked by the Bengal Nagpur Railway (BNR) Company.

Rail transport in the United Kingdom

Rail transport in the Isle of Man: discusses rail transport on the Isle of Man, which has the largest narrow gauge railway network in the British Isles with several historic railways and tramways still in operation.

Selby, Victoria

The town hosts the second station on the narrow-gauge railway to Gembrook (now the Puffing Billy Railway).

Tua River

The Tua line was a narrow gauge railway which closely followed the banks of the river.

Vaser River

This includes details about the "Mocăniță" narrow-gauge railway that operates as a tourist attaction in the valley.

Września Miasto railway station

Września Miasto (English: Września City) was a narrow-gauge railway stop in Września, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.