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

Reasons to be cheerful…

Statfold to restore a ‘forgotten’ loco

Talyllyn rosters a mother & daughter footplate crew

EGM vote splits Lynton membership

Falcon double set for Corris & Talyllyn

Irish disposal of ironstone loco by Trust sparks protest

Boiler shock adds major cost to Darj 19B overhaul

BRIEF LINES

Leader takes a break in Margate

Corris push south makes progress

Funding sought to restore Hibberd in tribute to Peter

Aerial survey of Donegal lines

No museum room for redundant Glasgow trains

Evesham begins new adventure

Buzzrail Diesel Gala with Steam

Take 2 for Bala extension bid

Harz celebrates its 125 years

East Broad Top pushes south

Branch to be finished, four decades late

Ziller drops hydrogen for battery power

Saxony line enjoys its Easter brake

Easter trains on two gauges

No more coal at Durango

A Shay for the 21st Century • Michael Reilly describes the successful authentic restoration of a Shay locomotive, now operating regular services in Taiwan.

Discovering Scotland’s First Railway • A 100,000 project has been announced to reconstruct part of a pioneer Scottish line dating back more than 200 years. Anthony Dawson looks at the history of the railway and current excavation of its remains.

Memories of greyer days recalled • Widely varying weather for our photographers this month, and a chance to capture scenes harking back to rather earlier times…

NARROW GAUGE WORLD

Three Gauges and four railways • James Waite completes his three-part study of the locomotives built by the Exmoor Steam Railway.

Time to Get it Done • The Talyllyn Railway will head into its 75th anniversary year with an ambitious development project, as Andrew Charman reports.

Tanyglaslyn – slate splendour • Karl Heath, whose photos of the narrow gauge regularly grace NGW’s Gallery pages, demonstrates that his skills are not just behind the lens with this Welsh-themed diorama, the result of a recent conversion to 009 scale.

Transporter wagon?

MODEL LINES

First 009 diesel from Bachmann is a small and delightful model

Bachmann springs surprise with 7mm scale range

Large-scale Ruston

ON THE SHELF

VIEWPOINT

Remembering the ‘poster boys’…

That was the year that… • Narrow gauge news stories from the archives and their legacy…

Diary & Special Events

Six Decades Too Late • Donald Brooks finds it hard to imagine a railway more enticing than the Ohrid narrow gauge.