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The Moors Valley Railway is a super little miniature railway that does a lop of around 1 mile in the Moors Valley Country Park near Ringwood, just on the Hampshire/Dorset border. It’s 7¼ gauge track includes a spiral and several short tunnels. Both these locomotives were built on site in the Railway’s own workshop. [...]

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The Perrygrove Railway is a delightful little 15in gauge railway and is near Coleford in the Forest of Dean. It actually runs in someone’s (large) garden for around ¾ mile.

The line is in the form of a tight “S” shape and runs mainly through trees and climbs quite steep gradient. In reality, the [...]

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