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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.
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.
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.
Europe. Australia. A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 81⁄2 in) standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm (1 ft 115⁄8 in) and 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in). Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structure gauges ...
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad in Portland, Maine. In New England, the first narrow-gauge common-carrier railroad was the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, which ran from North Billerica to Bedford in Middlesex County, Massachusetts from 1877 to 1878. There were extensive 2 ft (610 mm) gauge lines in the Maine forests early in the 20th century.
A steam locomotive of the C&TS RR. Many narrow-gauge railways were built in the United States with track gauge 3 ft (914 mm). The most extensive and well known systems were the 3 ft (914 mm) gauge lines through the Rocky Mountain states of Colorado and New Mexico. Today a few lines survive as heritage railways and tourist attractions.
Avonside 1563/1908 is a standard gauge 0-4-0 ST under restoration at the Foxfield Light Railway; Avonside 0-6-0 ST (works no. 1764) "Portbury", built 1917 for the Inland Waterways and Docks (War Department). Acquired by Bristol Corporation Docks after the war and numbered S3. Donated to Bristol Museums she was restored to running condition in 1988.
Steam locomotive 93.1410 The Dampfbier Loco of the Ustersbach Private Brewery ; Forest railway steam locomotive 764.449 Cozia-2 , a narrow gauge engine on its own plinth in the museum site; Electric locomotive E 636 147 ; Further ambassador locomotives are planned for Spring 2008.
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