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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 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 ...
The track consists of 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (89 mm), 5 in (127 mm) and 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm) gauges. The majority of passenger hauling is done by 7 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch gauge locomotives. However, smaller locomotives do often run successfully. The club owns several locomotives : 7 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch gauge 'Sandwell Lady'.
Saltwood Miniature Railway was a 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm) gauge miniature railway which first opened in Sheffield, but subsequently relocated to Saltwood in Kent, England. It closed in 1987. At one point, the Saltwood Miniature Railway was the oldest extant miniature railway in the world. [1]
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 ...
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