Alstom’s three-day festival in Derby will be the world’s largest-ever gathering of historic and modern rolling stock. It ...

The Greatest Gathering will have more than 50 items of rolling stock on display in August, including miniature gauge also ...

The world's oldest operating narrow-gauge locomotive will be running in Derby on a temporary railway. A 2ft gauge line is ...

The tunnel, built in 1824, was once an integral part of the slate trade. Part of the wider ... friends when they would follow the disused narrow gauge lines in the 1960s. He said: "There were ...

This was a near 100 yard tunnel that once played a vital role in the area's slate trade. The Dinowic Quarries Railway - also known as Padarn Railway - was built in 1824 to connect the quarries at ...

Talyllyn Railway opened in 1865 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn, and was the first narrow gauge railway in Britain authorised by Act of Parliament to carry passengers using ...

As well as slate production, the site has features including a smithy, foundry and, on its eastern side, facilities to repair steam locomotives – the site situated at the north end of the narrow gauge ...

A 2ft, narrow gauge railway ... the railway connected the slate quarries in the Welsh highlands but today, it’s a favourite for heritage railway fans including Ffestiniog Travel’s chairman ...

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The lifespan of a Gwynedd slate quarry that was famously used to hide priceless ... mine suitable for storage with brick built humidity controlled chambers and a narrow gauge rail track to move the ...