Forum: Narrow Gauge
6th June 2025, 22:50
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Part 4 – The Raasay Iron Ore Mine Railway
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Part 4 – The Raasay Iron Ore Mine Railway
There is an excellent book by Laurence & Pamela Draper, which they self-published in 1990, entitled “The Raasay Iron Mine: Where Enemies Became Friends.”...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
5th June 2025, 21:01
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Dereham, Norfolk
Dereham Station, Norfolk
An article in the magazine Railway Bylines, in the September 2002 edition written by Orson Carter prompted a look at the railway system in Dereham Norfolk. [1]
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Forum: Narrow Gauge
4th June 2025, 17:43
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Replies: 3
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Part 3 – The Skye Marble Railway
The...
Part 3 – The Skye Marble Railway
The featured image for this article is the only photograph I have been able to find of ‘Skylark’, the locomotive which for a matter of only a few years operated on...
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Forum: Narrow Gauge
4th June 2025, 11:46
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Replies: 3
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
1st June 2025, 17:12
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Replies: 1
Views: 391
The Highland Railway’s Fort George Branch
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The Highland Railway’s Fort George Branch
This short branch was established to bring a railhead closer to Fort George.
The featured image in the linked article shows Highland Railway No. 29 at...
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Forum: Narrow Gauge
30th May 2025, 16:52
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Replies: 3
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The Railways of Skye and Adjacent Islands
In April/May 2025 we had a holiday on Skye and as part of that started finding out about the history of industrial railways on Skye and immediately adjacent islands.
The first we investigated was...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
29th May 2025, 14:04
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Replies: 1
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
27th May 2025, 20:23
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Replies: 1
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The Highland Railway, Scotland
The Highland Railway as a Company is long-gone. Many of its routes area still in use, others have been abandoned. This thread will hopefully cover the majority of the Highland's lines. ...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
25th May 2025, 18:36
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Replies: 1
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The Killin Railway
Back in November 2000, Michael S. Elton wrote about the Killin Branch in BackTrack magazine. The featured image for this article is the front cover of the November 2000 (Volume 14 No. 11) issue of...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
23rd May 2025, 20:44
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King's Cross and St. Pancras Railway Stations
King’s Cross and St. Pancras Railway Stations: Renaissance 1990 to 2025
In June 1990, The Railway Magazine issued a supplement entitled ‘King’s Cross Renaissance: The History, Development and...
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Forum: Freight Operations and Observations
19th May 2025, 20:15
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Arresting Runaway Wagons
British Railways Illustrated Volume 5 No. 5 of February 1996 included an article about the LNWR goods yard at Edge Hill, Liverpool.
In 1850, the Edge Hill yards occupied 40 acres, with room for...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
17th May 2025, 21:05
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The Highland Railway's Fortrose Branch. ...
The Highland Railway’s Fortrose (or Black Isle) Branch
Stanley Jenkins tells us that “The opening of the Inverness & Rossshire Railway between Inverness and Dingwall on 11th June 1862 brought the...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
16th May 2025, 18:41
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Replies: 12
Views: 8,299
Genova (Genoa) Addendum – Light Rail & Modern...
Genova (Genoa) Addendum – Light Rail & Modern Tramway, August, September & October 1995 – including La Guidovia del Santuario della Guardia
After completing the series of articles about Genova’s...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
15th May 2025, 08:37
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Replies: 0
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The Highland Railway's Strathpeffer Branch
The featured image shows Strathpeffer Railway Station in 1928. Locomotive No. 16118, one of a class of three locos designed by William Stroudley. Built in 1869 at the Highland Railway’s Lochgorm...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
13th May 2025, 21:09
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San Sebastian, Spain and Niagara Falls! ...
San Sebastian’s Urban Tramway, Funicular and Aerocar, and the ‘Spanish Aerocar’ at Niagara Falls.
A variety of different forms of transportation in and around San Sebastian in Spain and an...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
2nd May 2025, 21:58
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The Caledonian Railway. ...
Wikipedia tells us that “The Caledonian Railway (CR) was one of the two biggest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping. It was formed in 1845 with the objective of...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
28th April 2025, 21:39
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Replies: 1
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The Llanfyllin Branch - Part 2[
In the first...
The Llanfyllin Branch - Part 2[
In the first article in this short series, we finished the first part of our journey from Oswestry along the Llanfyllin Branch just after passing through Carreghofa...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
27th April 2025, 07:35
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Replies: 0
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The Mother of All Inventions?
When and why were railways created? What were the circumstances which brought about their existence?
History does not make it easy to take out one example from a steady continuum of change. ......
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
24th April 2025, 19:45
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
22nd April 2025, 19:01
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Henry Robinson Palmer and Early British Monorails
Henry Robinson Palmer and Early British Monorails
Henry Robinson Palmer (1793-1844) was a British engineer who designed the first monorail system and also invented corrugated iron!
Born in 1793...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
21st April 2025, 21:22
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Early Monorail Proposals in Russia
I came across this when looking into early railways. ...
Ivan Kirillovich Elmanov (Russian: Иван Кириллович Эльманов) was a Russian inventor. During 1820, in Myachkovo, near Moscow, he built a...
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Forum: Light Rail and Metros
21st April 2025, 12:57
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Forum: Freight Operations and Observations
17th April 2025, 22:02
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A Short-lived Horse-powered 'Railway' in Hungary
The first Hungarian ‘railway line’ was completed nearly 20 years before the first steam-powered railway in Hungary (which was opened in 1846) on 15th August 1827, and ran from Pest to Kőbánya.
It...
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Forum: Freight Operations and Observations
13th April 2025, 16:00
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Replies: 13
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Forum: Light Rail and Metros
4th April 2025, 21:33
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Replies: 0
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The Giants Causeway and Portrush Tramway
In the Summer of 2024, my wife and I visited Giants’ Causeway as part of a few days meandering along the North coast of Ireland. When reading a series of older copies of the Modern Tramway, I came...
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