Welcome to the September issue of Narrow Gauge World – as I write these words we have just experienced the solar eclipse and the light has returned, along with the stifling temperatures. The majority of readers will not need telling that...
Cover: This issue highlights some of the early preservationists that saved locos for today’s lines. Quarry Hunslet ‘Lilla’, today resident at the Ffestiniog and pictured here by Joey Evans in pouring rain at the Welsh Highland Heritage...
As NGW went to press on 13th August there appeared to be no end to the continuing heatwave conditions across the UK, the extended period of hot weather wreaking havoc with the peak season of many lines which were forced to substitute steam...
The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway has made a new bid to secure planning approval for an extension of its close to one-mile operating line from its current terminus at Killington Lane to Parracombe. A previous application, to extend by...
The Ffestiniog Railway has launched an appeal to provide a permanent station building at its Blaenau Ffestiniog terminus. The current station, directly connecting to the Transport for Wales standard gauge line to Llandudno Junction,...
In a widely-welcomed move, members of the Isle of Man’s Tynwald Parliament have approved the spending of up to £3m to reinstate the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway to its full length. The 3ft gauge tramway, built in 1876, has been cut back to less...