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

Return of an old favourite

New company takes over North Bay works following closure

Alsihan diesel to play star role at Llanfair Gala

Romney seeks £30m cash boost

Lappa clocks up 50 years with old and new locos

Work under way to end Buzzard floods

FR’s Palmerston set for summer on the Rheidol

Tours of Boston Lodge works begin

BRIEF LINES

Subway car finds new home in museum

Ballycastle relic gains protection

Beddgelert station plan resubmitted

Loco ‘beyond repair’ returns to action at Golden Valley line

FR carriage renovation is first class

Nine-Simplex cavalcade crowns diesel day

Durango and Silverton severed by rockfall USA

Sandstone returns with new festival

Path delays cut line’s running season in half

Surprise visitor set to appear at Saxony Festival

Railcar project making progress

Popular and busy garden line

Tunnel Vision… • Overcoming monsoon damage on Taiwan’s Alishan Forest Railway required a unique solution, as Andrew Charman reports.

A Pixie in my Garden… • A true narrow gauge celebrity has steamed for the first time in 18 years at its new home in Kent. Andrew Charman headed for a meeting with ‘Pixie’.

Summer time and new locos • New and long-unseen engines in equally new locations have kept our photographers busy this month.

Four Sugar Railways in 1977 • In the last of three features on Brazil, James Waite looks at a steam-lover’s paradise with ancient British locos scarcely known to the outside world until the late 1970s.

Keeping Mürren Car-Free • Following the remarkable photos in NGW184 of new railcars being delivered over mountain roads to the Swiss BLM, Donald Brooks provides the background to this unique railway.

Relic of the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ • Alisdair Macdonald looks at the Duchal Moor Railway that was built near Glasgow for grouse-shooting, and recalls a visit and a ride on it that he enjoyed in 1970.

NEWS GALLERY EXTRA – IN BLACK & WHITE

Vicar’s Tea Party • John Wooden describes how instead of taking what he considered ‘a dull layout’ to a model railway workshop, he built something new – in a month….

EDM to supply 14mm gauge conversions of Bachmann Hunslets

ON THE SHELF

VIEWPOINT

There’s more than one Pixie you know…

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

Diary & Special Events

What’s On

The Gravy Train • Donald Brooks recalls another unique example of the narrow gauge, in the centre of Austria’s capital.