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2. 7 1/4 in gauge railway - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Category:7¼ in gauge railways - Wikipedia

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   7 1/4 in gauge railway; A. Abbeydale miniature railway This page was last edited on 14 June 2016, at 08:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

4. List of track gauges - Wikipedia

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   See 9 + 7 ⁄ 16 in (240 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways: 241 mm 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: See 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (241 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways: 260 mm 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in: See 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (260 mm) gauge ridable miniature railways: 267 mm 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in: England Beale Park miniature railway 305 mm 12 in: See 12 in (305 mm) gauge ridable ...

5. Ridable miniature railway - Wikipedia

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   The Downs Light Railway is the world's oldest private miniature railway, [7] with a track gauge of 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (241 mm). The railway was built and opened in 1925 under the guidance of Geoffrey Hoyland (Headmaster) as a 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 184 mm ) gauge railway, for the principal purpose of education.

6. Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway - Wikipedia

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   The then "Doncaster Model Engineering Society" built its track at the rear of the most famous railway place on earth, "Doncaster Plant Works". Birthplace of Mallard, Flying Scotsman, Green Arrow, Cock of the North to name a few. The group laid 900 feet of 5-and-7 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch gauge (130 and 180 mm) ground-level track. Only five years later ...

7. Train Mountain Railroad - Wikipedia

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   The Train Mountain 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (190.5 mm) gauge miniature railway track is typically used for 1.5" scale trains (1.5" to 12" or approx. 1/8 scale). Trains of 2.5" scale (2.5" to 12", or approx. 1/5 scale) are also common at Train Mountain. Some of these 2.5" scale steam locomotives can weigh in excess of 3,500 pounds (1,600 kg) for the ...

8. List of model railways - Wikipedia

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   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." [2]

9. Minimum-gauge railway - Wikipedia

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   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).