Narrow Gauge World

The only magazine specialising in narrow gauge railways. We recall the past, and offer comprehensive, in-depth coverage of today’s narrow gauge scene. We speak with authority to our readers, many of whom run narrow-gauge railways.

Narrow Gauge World

Entertaining our public…

Board split stokes fears over progress of Lynton revival

Planning issue removal boosts Bala extension

James Spooner debuts at Ffestiniog’s Bygones

Sybil returns to steam at West Lancs

Talyllyn’s young members to take on replica wagon

BRIEF LINES

Amberley busy on the Bear and Barbouilleur

Bord na Mona to finish this year?

Tralee project halfway there

Open day puts spotlight on Halesworth project

Simplex gets its works plates back 60 years on

Line to escape bus takeover?

Walhalla escapes blaze and sets sight on Erica

West Coast gets its loco back

Milestone marked with special trains

Bill’s last run… • A photo-charter on the Cumbres & Toltec in September was a finale for NGW correspondent Bill Jollitz..

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The Lee Moor Tramway • James Waite untangles the long history of a Devon line built to the ‘Dartmoor gauge’.

Welshpool workhorse • Mike Tedstone describes the long heritage career of a Llanfair loco that is a worthy subject of the line’s latest appeal..

Autumn, and the nights draw in… • As the summer holidays end the operating seasons start to run out quickly – but the Autumn is a traditional time for photo charters while after-dark photography features as the days become shorter…

Polish Revival • Andrew Goltz celebrates the reconstruction of the Przeworsk Railway, which seemed doomed after massive flood damage.

Military Service • Inspired by an exhibition at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum marking the 70th anniversary of Territorial Army assistance in reviving the Talyllyn Railway, Ian Evans looks at British military sites served by narrow gauge railways and how heritage limes acquired their equipment.

Meyers at Mügeln • Finding a venerable class of locomotives still at work in the early 1990s proved a demanding quest for Keith Chester.

Thinking outside the box… • There’s a lot to be said for not going the obvious route when designing a layout, says Andrew Charman.

Fontaine Quarry • Ken Jones describes how he saved and repurposed a layout in one of the smallest narrow-gauge modelling scales.

‘Owd Ratty’ recalled in model form

ON THE CHRISTMAS SHELF

VIEWPOINT

Time to think outside the box?

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Small Trams and Large Wagons • Michael Farr had a memorable experience in Switzerland in 1991.