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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 ...
The smaller gauges of miniature railway track can also be portable and is generally 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (89 mm)/ 5 in (127 mm) gauge on raised track or as 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm)/ 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (260 mm) on ground level. Typically portable track is used to carry passengers at temporary events such as fêtes and summer fairs.
The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud. [1] However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever to make a model locomotive."
See 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (190.5 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways: 210 mm 8 + 1 ⁄ 4 in: See 8 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (210 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways: 229 mm 9 in: See 9 in (229 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways: England: Railway built by minimum gauge pioneer Sir Arthur Heywood, later abandoned in favor of 15 in (381 mm) gauge. 240 mm 9 + 7 ...
There are also rideable miniature railways running on extremely narrow tracks as small as 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (260 mm) gauge, for example the Rudyard Lake Steam Railway. Around the world there are also several rideable miniature railways open to the public using even narrower gauges, such as 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm) and 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (190.5 mm).
The railroad received a $750,000 grant from the Ohio Rail Development Commission in May 2023 to support additional tracks in Newark Yard, the primary yard on the CUOH system. The grant also supported conversion of two manually-operated switches at the Ohio Central Railroad and Ohio Southern Railroad interchange in Zanesville. [4] [5]
Celina, Van Wert and State Line Extension of the Columbus and North-Western Railway; Cincinnati, Batavia and Williamsburg Railroad; Cincinnati District; Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway; Cincinnati Northern Railway (1880–83)
St. Clairsville Railway [7] (defunct) Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad (crossed into Indiana and Illinois) (4 ft 10 in (1,473 mm) Ohio gauge lines and dual gauge lines with 4 ft 10 in track also present) (defunct) Toledo, Delphos and Burlington Railroad (4 ft 10 in lines and dual gauge lines with 4 ft 10 in track also present) (defunct)