Narrow Gauge World

The only magazine specialising in narrow gauge railways. We recall the past, and offer comprehensive, in-depth coverage of today’s narrow gauge scene. We speak with authority to our readers, many of whom run narrow-gauge railways.

Narrow Gauge World

Promise of a New Year

Rheidol’s South African Garratt makes debut on photo charter

Chelfham station restoration wins national heritage award

Amerton honoured by volunteer ‘MBE’ award

Nuclear grant fuels Bala’s extension plan

Lynton joins move to plastic sleepers

UNESCO memorial crowns Talyllyn year

February deadline set to keep Corris new-build on track

Hayling diesel gets classic car overhaul

Ffestiniog shuts to allow major work

BRIEF LINES

Halesworth buys wagons in bulk to boost 6-wheel replica plans

£32k grant boosts Steeple Grange recovery effort

Mountaineer project targets Easter for chassis on wheels

Screw shortage has C&L appealing to rail industry

Donegal cranks up memories

Tony runs at Fairbourne

End of the line for Wells Harbour

Sandstone completes loco rescue

Puffing Billy Visitor Centre open

BRIEF LINES

Ballyhooley demise – ‘sad but a relief’

BRIEF LINES

Meeting Laura on the Chiemseebahn • James Waite enthuses over a line less than two kilometres in length and its novel tram locomotive.

Becalmed in Barbados • Forced by Covid to spend 14 days out of the UK before entering the USA, Clive Hepworth chose an island with a recently opened and superb railway.

Chilled conditions, hot pictures • Winter fun as the lines close to public trains but stage photo charters, with some new participants to inspire our hardy photographers…

Narrow Gauge in Nigeria • David Mitchell looks at a country that has never previously featured in NGW.

Shakuntala – a little local railway • Fuzz Jordan found a line based on Murtajapur to be a perfect local railway until it closed for broad-gauge conversion in 2020

Bala at its Birth… • Andrew Charman concludes our series of three Hunslet Homes articles by documenting the birth of the Bala Lake Railway, a line celebrating 50 years of operation in 2022.

Ulfstead Road for Mid-Sodor • Richard Awdry describes the 009 layout built in the 1960s by his grandfather, Thomas the Tank Engine creator Wilbert Awdry, and the inspiration for one of the Reverend’s Railway Series children’s books.

A Fairlie large surprise… • An unexpected early Christmas present for 009 modellers courtesy of Bachmann – Andrew Charman checks out the new quartet of Ffestiniog Railway Double Fairlies.

FR mania as Peco Englands arrive

ON THE SHELF

VIEWPOINT

That was the year that… • Narrow gauge news stories from the archives and their legacy…

Diary on winter break

The moving pulpit • Greg Howell finds a line on hallowed ground…

Colossus at Dalegarth Cottages • Tim Edmonds finds much of fascination in a historic postcard of an Eskdale scene.-

Buckinʼ bronco • Keith Chester recalls a hair-raising experience chasing the narrow gauge in in Poland.