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Loco N°13 from the Guinness Brewery. The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum collection began in the 1950s when the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society (TRPS) was the first voluntary society in the world to take over and run a public passenger carrying railway. Narrow-gauge railways were becoming redundant and their equipment scrapped.
Gage Roads Brew Co. Gage Roads Brew Co (formerly Gage Roads Brewing Company) is an Australian craft brewery located just outside the city of Fremantle in Palmyra, Western Australia. It is one of Australia's largest independent breweries. [1] In 2016, its new-world pale ale - "Little Dove" - was awarded the Trophy for Champion Australian Beer at ...
Talyllyn RailwayRheilffordd Talyllyn. Locomotive No. 1 Talyllyn arrives at Nant Gwernol terminus. The Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow-gauge railway in Wales running for 71⁄4 miles (12 km) [1] from Tywyn [a] on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn.
However, the old narrow-gauge tracks remain in place between Velestino and Palaiofarsalos via Aerino, so that occasional special excursion trains use them. Another small railway which uses narrow gauge 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) is the Mt. Pelion railway, A metric line network existed in Attica, operated by Attica Railways and later by SPAP.
The broad gauge tramway. The broad gauge tramway connected the brewery with the goods yards of Heuston Station. The system began circa 1880, had a gauge of 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) [39] and was horse drawn but they were replaced by the narrow gauge tramway's locomotives on a special haulage wagon. [37] The broad gauge system closed on 15 May 1965.
The Amberley Museum Railway is a 2 ft ( 610 mm) narrow gauge railway based at Amberley Museum, Amberley, West Sussex. It has a varied collection of engines and rolling stock ranging from 18 in ( 457 mm) gauge to 5 ft 3 in ( 1,600 mm) gauge. It operates passenger trains at the museum using a mixture of steam, internal combustion and battery ...
Transporter wagons are most commonly used to transport narrow-gauge stock along standard-gauge lines. At the Guinness brewery in Dublin there used to be 1 ft 10 in (559 mm) internal narrow gauge and 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) gauge (standard gauge for Ireland), and to avoid the need for steam locomotives of both gauges the narrow-gauge engines were ...
Thomas William O'Brien (March 8, 1859 – August 24, 1916) was a Klondike gold rush entrepreneur who was best known for his Klondike Mines Railway and Klondike brewery businesses. He was also elected as a member of the Yukon Territorial Council, and was the first president of the Yukon Order of Pioneers, Klondike Lodge.