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 Great Dorset Steam Fair celebrates its 40th anniversary at the end of this month. It’s widely recognised as the world’s leading steam and vintage vehicle preservation event and is attended every year by over 200,000 people from the U.K and from all over the world! I’m expecting to be one of those 200,000 [...]
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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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