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The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum (Welsh: Amgueddfa Rheilffyrdd Bach Cul) is a purpose-built museum dedicated to narrow-gauge railways situated at the Tywyn Wharf station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. The museum has a collection of more than 1,000 items from over eighty narrow-gauge railways in Wales, England, the Isle of Man ...
Pages in category "Narrow-gauge railroads in Pennsylvania" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Greenlick Narrow Gauge Railway: 1874 1892 Greenlick Railway: Hanover Branch Railroad: WM: 1849 1874 Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad: Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad: WM: 1874 1886 Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway: Hanover Junction and Susquehanna Railroad: RDG: 1876 1881 Reading, Marietta and Hanover Railroad
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
Padarn Railway locomotive Jenny Lind Fire Queen of the Padarn Railway preserved at the Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum. The Padarn Railway was a narrow-gauge railway in North Wales, built to the unusual gauge of 4 ft (1,219 mm). [1] It carried slate seven miles (11 km) from Dinorwic Quarry to Port Dinorwic.
This list of museums in Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Fifteen-inch–gauge railways were pioneered by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood who was interested in what he termed a minimum-gauge railway for use as estate railways or to be easy to lay on, for instance, a battlefield. [1] In 1874, he described the principle behind it as used for his Duffield Bank Railway, distinguishing it from a narrow-gauge ...