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Caldecotte Miniature Railway (CMR) is a 3.5, 5 and 7.25 inch miniature railway run by the Milton Keynes Model Engineering Society (MKMES) located in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. It is one of the few miniature railways in the UK which offers rides for passengers who are wheelchair users, with a specially built coach.
Steam locomotive running round its train on the Beer Heights Light Railway, Devon, England The Moors Valley Railway, Dorset, England. A 7 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch gauge railway is a miniature railway that uses the gauge of 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm). It is mainly used in clubs, amusement parks and as a backyard railway. Locomotives include steam, electric ...
Barnards Miniature Railway is a ridable miniature railway in Essex, UK. [1] The line opened on 5 September 2010 with an initial length of 260 metres. [2] It uses 7.25-inch (184-millimetre) track. By 2020, the line was approximately 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) long having been extended three times. [3]
This fell into disuse as gauge 1 at 1.75 inch was very close. Some manufacturers kept the scale for the models but running them on slightly narrow gauge track. 1 gauge 3 ⁄ 8 inch scale: 1:32: 45 mm This large scale, once rarely seen indoors in modern use but frequently used for modelling standard-gauge trains as garden railways, is making a ...
Built using the track and rolling stock of the Creekmoor Light Railway. Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway: 1990 2018 2 ft (610 mm) Unknown Rowsley South railway station, Peak Rail: Private railway at, but separate from, Peak Rail. Rail lifted 2018-2019. Some of the trackbed to be used by The Ashover Light Railway Society's new running line.
Official scales for the gauges were drawn up but not at first rigidly followed and not necessarily correctly proportioned for the gauge chosen. 0 (zero) gauge trains, for instance, operate on track too widely spaced in the United States as the scale is accepted as 1:48 whereas in Britain 0 gauge uses a ratio of 43.5:1 or 7 mm/1 foot and the ...
A Bagnall inspired design is popular in the world of live steam locomotives, known as the Sweet Pea. It was designed by Jack Buckler, with the first drawings published in the magazine Engineering in Miniature in 1981. The Sweet Pea is a 5" gauge design, and a later 7.25"/7.5" gauge variant known as a Sweet William was created.
Other attractions include a 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm) gauge miniature steam railway which runs for 1-mile (1.6 km) on the site. The railway is a single track running around the perimeter of the site. It is curved round 180 degrees at the South of the site with a balloon loop at each end which are superimposed at the North of the site.