Light Railways information

heavier than most railways. Also in Japan, originally, "light railway" refers to a railway built or operated under the Light Railways Act enforced in 1909...

Light Railways is a magazine produced by the Light Railway Research Society of Australia (LRRSA). The subtitle is "Australia's Magazine of Industrial and...

The Light Railways Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 48) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Before the act each...

Department Light Railways were a system of narrow gauge trench railways run by the British War Department in World War I. Light railways made an important...

The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro system primarily serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London and providing a direct...

Llanfair Railway Bill appeared for a 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railway on a similar route; this bill expired unused in 1892. In August 1896, the Light Railways Act...

the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in London. The historic term light railway was used because it dated from the British Light Railways Act 1896, although...

The National Company of Light Railways (Dutch: Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen, abbreviated as NMVB; French: Société Nationale des Chemins de...

Tokar. It used ex-War Department Light Railways rolling stock and Simplex locomotives. It was absorbed by Sudan Railways in 1933 and closed in 1952. In...

[page needed] An order under the Light Railways Act was obtained in 1918 to build a standard gauge railway between the Midland Railway station at Stretton and...

British railway museums. Many of the standard-gauge railways listed, including former branch lines and ex-mainline routes, were closed by British Railways under...

of the Association of Argyll Railway Co. Ltd. which applied for an order under the Light Railways Act to build a railway connecting Campbeltown with Machrihanish...

narrow gauge railways Cycleways in England Rail trails 2 ft 6 in gauge railways Notes "Leek and Manifold Light Railway". Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholder's...

were permitted under the Light Railways Act 1896 and intended to bring railways to rural areas. The London Docklands Light Railway, has more rapid transit...

The Sheppey Light Railway was a railway on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England, which ran from Leysdown to Queenborough, where it connected with the South...

British narrow gauge railways "Gartell Light Railway". Steam Heritage. Retrieved 15 September 2016. "Gartell Light Railway". Steam Railway Lines. Retrieved...

the Snaefell Mountain Railway on the Isle of Man. Tramways and light railways often have steeper gradients than heavier railways. This is because all wheels...

The Derwent Valley Light Railway (DVLR) (also known as The Blackberry Line) was a privately owned standard-gauge railway in North Yorkshire, England,...

The Edge Hill Light Railway, one of Colonel Stephens' light railways, was in Warwickshire, England. It was designed to carry ironstone from Edge Hill Quarries...

(NH/4 757) for Scindia State Railway (later Gwalior Light Railway)". Indian Railways Fan Club. World Survey of Foreign Railways. Transportation Division,...

related to West Lancashire Light Railway. British narrow gauge railways Lakeside Miniature Railway, Southport Moseley Railway Trust Thomas, Cliff (2002)...

have a public railway system, although there have been three small short-lived railways in the past. The main reasons for the lack of railways are the small...

The following is a list of constituents of British Railways. British Railways (BR) was formed by nationalisation on 1 January 1948 in accordance with the...

Railways company enabled the building of the line. The company was always in debt and in 1921 was obliged to sell the line to the Cambrian Railways....

mainline railway south of the town at Grovebury sidings. The line was built using surplus equipment from the War Department Light Railways. The railway was...