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

Nostalgia for the Blue period…

Safety probe after 16 killed in Lisbon funicular runaway

Rheidol goes blue for ‘most ambitious’ Gala

Talyllyn young members recreate gunpowder van

Mountaineer to use 200-year-old oak

Second Southwold loco build planned

Glyn Valley plans new-build loco

Leighton Buzzard stages ‘best Gala in many years’

BRIEF LINES

Proposal to offer MER’s Derby Castle depot for sale sparks anger

Live steam in Donegal

Aberdeen tram set to add to Alford revival success

Westonzoyland Gala features Lister truckfest

UK NEWS IN PICTURES

Alishan launches upmarket train set

Park railway driver injured in crossing crash

Molli to mark three decades

MTVS puts coal replacements to test

Tech issues fail to stop Meyer’s return

BRIEF LINES

Verticalp revival sees new locos arrive on line

Bleak birthday?

LOVE NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS?

Taking the Telford Tram • Telford may be a ‘new’ town but that has not stopped it having a tram – just a 2ft gauge steam one, as Andrew Charman describes.

Barclays in Bihar • British-built locomotives were a distinctive feature of Indian narrow gauge. Donald Brooks contrasts the Andrew Barclays of industrial Bengal Iron & Steel with the Kerr, Stuarts of the elite Marharajah’s railways covered by Keith Chester in NGW196.

Reaching peak potential… • High-season Galas, locos in unfamiliar locations – there’s been lots to photograph over the past month…

Pioneer Narrow Gauge in Cornwall • James Waite provides a timely reminder that the Stockon & Darlington is not the only railway celebrating its 200th anniversary, as part of a study of early Cornish mineral lines and their remains today.

Shangri-La? • ‘If ever Shangri-La existed, it must have been Srnetica.’ Older readers may recall the words with which Charlie Lewis began an article in NGW47, way back in 2006. Keith Chester ponders what and where on earth was Srnetica that it merited such a description?

Rheidol’s Blue Period • David Mitchell recalls the time in 1968 when the Vale of Rheidol Railway first adopted a controversial new livery…

Garden Show blooms again • Andrew Charman paid a visit to the revived Llanfair Garden Railway Show over the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway Gala weekend.

MODEL LINES

Esk-quisite…

ON THE SHELF

VIEWPOINT

NG EXTRA

Diary & Special Events

Waldenburgerbahn steam • Back in the 1970s Adrian Garner visited a Swiss line that is now an electrified tram system.