List of 2 ft 3 in gauge railways

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A list of known 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow-gauge railways:

Corris Railway
Talyllyn Railway
Name Opened Closed Length Location Notes
Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway[1][2] 1877 1932[3] 6 miles (9.7 km) Mull of Kintyre, Scotland Remote line serving coal mines and passengers on the Kintyre peninsula.
Caphouse Colliery[4] 1988 present c. 2,000 yards (1,800 m) National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield Demonstration funicular railway.
Corris Railway 1859 present 12+1⁄4 miles (19.7 km) [3] Machynlleth, Wales Built to carry slate from the Corris district. Closed after flooding of the Afon Dyfi. Reopened in 2002.
[5] 1910 c. 1910 1920 c. 1920 c. 400 feet (120 m) Glasgow, Scotland Railway underground in the basement of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Operated by a battery-electric locomotive, and carried laundry. Closed following an accident in 1920, but sections of rail are still visible in the basement.
[6] 1860s 1967 after Unknown Nanpean, England Internal quarry tramway system with cable hauled inclines.
Unknown 1968?[7] Unknown Huncoat, England National Coal Board mine railway. One diesel was sold to the Talyllyn Railway, and runs as No. 9 Alf.[8][9]
Lord quarry 1820s c. 1820s Unknown Unknown Blaenau Ffestiniog There is evidence that Lord quarry (later part of the Votty & Bowydd quarry complex) and other North Wales slate quarries used 2 ft 3 in gauge tramways in the 1820s.[10]
Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway[3] 1897 1899 7 miles (11.3 km)[3] Talybont, Wales Short-lived line serving the lead mines around Hafan.
[6] 1863 1973 Unknown Nanpean, England A network of lines connecting several quarries to the GWR branch line from Drinnick Mill.
Talyllyn Railway[3] 1865 present 7+1⁄4 miles (11.7 km) Tywyn, Wales Built to carry slate from Bryn Eglwys quarry to the coast.
[11] 1915 1959 c. 400 feet (120 m) York, England Electrified railway, operated by a locomotive built by Dick, Kerr & Co.

Similar gauges[]

No railways of an identical gauge are known outside Britain, though lines of 700 mm (2 ft 3+9⁄16 in) gauge are known in Latvia and Romania and several .[12]

Other British railways of similar, but not identical, gauge were:

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Nigel S.C. Macmillan (1970). The Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway. David & Charles: Newton Abbot.
  2. ^ "Macrihanish Online". 2011. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e Whitehouse, Patrick & Snell, John (1984). Narrow gauge railways of the British Isles. David & Charles. ISBN 0715301969.
  4. ^ Keith Turner (2002). Cliff Railways of the British Isles. The Oakwood Press. p. 119.
  5. ^ Voice, David (2007). Hospital Tramways and Railways (3rd ed.). Adam Gordon. p. 43. ISBN 978 1 874422 67 9.
  6. ^ a b Dart, Maurice (2005). Cornwall Narrow Gauge including the Camborne & Redruth tramway. Middleton Press. ISBN 190447456X.
  7. ^ Colliery closed 1968. "The Huncoat Trails". Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  8. ^ Bate, J.H.L. (2001). The Chronicles of Pendre Sidings. RailRomances. pp. 158, 160. ISBN 1-900622-05-X.
  9. ^ Potter, D. (1990). The Talyllyn Railway. David St John Thomas. p. 202. ISBN 0-946537-50-X.
  10. ^ Drummond, Ian (2015). Rails Along The Fathew. Holne Publishings. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-9563317-8-6.
  11. ^ Mitchell, Vic & Smith, Keith (2003). Branch Line to the Derwent Valley, including the Foss Islands Branch. Midhurst: Middleton Press. plate 24. ISBN 1-904474-06-3.
  12. ^ "Sugar Cane Railways in Cuba, 2003" (PDF).
  13. ^ "Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways in England". Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  14. ^ "Century of mining ends at Welbeck Colliery". BBC news. 11 May 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
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