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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 ...
Emerson Zooline Railroad's Chance Rides C.P. Huntington train in Saint Louis Zoo, one of hundreds of exact copies of this ride model in locations worldwide. A ridable miniature railway (US: riding railroad or grand scale railroad) is a large scale, usually ground-level railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or ...
These hobbyists included Disney animator Ollie Johnston, who had a ridable miniature railroad; as well as Disney animator Ward Kimball, who owned the full-size, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge Grizzly Flats Railroad. [8] [9] On June 1, 1949, Disney purchased 5 acres (2.0 ha) of vacant land in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles. [10]
This 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm) gauge railway originated in 1946 when John Samuel started construction in the garden of his house, 'Greywood', on the Burwood Park estate at Walton-on-Thames. [2] [3] [4] With the help of a group of volunteers the Greywood Central Railway developed until 1962, when a run of 0.75 miles (1.21 km) was possible. [1]
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."
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. The railway was regauged during the 1930s to the larger gauge of 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in, to allow for new locos to be used on the line. After Hoyland fell ill and retired from ...
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 ...
Plowman's Railroad operates the collection of 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm) gauge American outline steam and diesel locomotives from the former Dobwalls Adventure Park and is located at Plowmans Garden Nursery & Plant Centre Ltd, West Parley, Ferndown, Dorset