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this railway currently has no name - because it doesn't exist yet

2' (60cm) gauge in the garden

John's favourite sites:
 Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway
 Feldbahnanlage Frank Engel Woltersdorf
 Two Foot Gage Owners Association
 www.tractionads.co.uk

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Use Babelfish to translate the non-English sites (though the results can be a little strange).


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Railways of less-than 2' (60cm) gauge

Germany
  500mm Feldbahnprojekt e.V., Berlin
  Feldbahnanlage Seppelbahn


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Private 2' (60cm) gauge railways

United Kingdom
  The Beeches Light Railway
  Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway
    BBC news item on the Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway
  Statfold Barn Railway page 1 & page 2

Germany
  Waldbahn Carlsberg
  Feldbahnanlage Frank Engel Woltersdorf
  Feldbahn Fredersdorf
  Feldbahnanlage GUBEN
  Feldbahn Löhnberg
  Strube Bahn Schlanstedt
  Feldbahnsammlung Scholz
  Feldbahn Speyerdorf
  Wedeler Feldbahn
  Werners Gartenbahn

Sweden
  Östra Södermanlands Järnväg

USA
  Goose Creek Railroad


Lines less than 2' gauge ] [ Private 2' gauge lines ] [ Lines greater than 2' gauge ] [ Narrow gauge museums ] [ Information ] [ Forums & buy-n-sell ] [ New Zealand ] [ Publishers & Distributors ] [ Other websites ]

Railways of greater-than 2' (60cm) gauge

USA
  DMCR Railroad (2' 6" / 30" gauge)


Lines less than 2' gauge ] [ Private 2' gauge lines ] [ Lines greater than 2' gauge ] [ Narrow gauge museums ] [ Information ] [ Forums & buy-n-sell ] [ New Zealand ] [ Publishers & Distributors ] [ Other websites ]

2' (60cm) gauge museums and public railways

United Kingdom
  Amberley Working Museum
    Information specifically on Amberley Working Museum's rollingstock
  Ffestiniog Railway
  Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust
  Leighton Buzzard Railway
  Moseley Railway Trust
  Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway (2' 6" / 30" gauge)
  Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway (2' 6" / 30" gauge)
  Welsh Highland Railway (Caernarfon)

Austria
  Feld- und Industriebahnmuseum in Freiland, Niederösterreich

France
  Le P'tit train de la Haute Somme

Holland
  Decauville Spoorweg Museum

Germany
  Parkeisenbahn Berlin (*)
  Parkeisenbahn Bernburg (*)
  Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz (*)
  Parkeisenbahn Cottbus (*)
  Parkeisenbahn Dresden (* - 15" gauge)
  Parkeisenbahn Gera (*)
  Parkeisenbahn Görlitz (*)
  Parkeisenbahn Halle (Saale) (*)
  Parkeisenbahn Leipzig (* - 15" gauge)
  Parkeisenbahn Magdeburg (*)
  Parkeisenbahn Plauen (*)
  Parkeisenbahn Vatterode (*)
  Historische Feldbahn Dresden
  Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum e.V.
    The Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum have restored an Orenstein & Koppel Mallet repatriated from Java
  Feldbahn-Museum 500 e.V.
  Feld- und Grubenbahnmuseum Fortuna
  Feldbahn-Museum Guldental
  Museumsfeldbahn Leipzig-Lindenau e.V.
  Feldbahn im Sächsischen Eisenbahnmuseum
  Stumpfwaldbahn
  Gruben- und Feldbahnmuseum Zeche Theresia
  Feldbahn Neckarbischofsheim
  Fränkisches Feldbahnmuseum e.V. Rügland
  Gillbachbahn
  Waldeisenbahn Muskau (WEM)

USA
  The Bucksgahuda & Western Railroad Co.

(*) Parkeisenbahnen were an initiative by the former socialist governments in several Eastern European countries (notably East Germany) to build railways for children to learn how to operate real railways - a bit like an apprenticeship. Many of these are now operated as pleasure lines for everyone to enjoy.


Lines less than 2' gauge ] [ Private 2' gauge lines ] [ Lines greater than 2' gauge ] [ Narrow gauge museums ] [ Information ] [ Forums & buy-n-sell ] [ New Zealand ] [ Publishers & Distributors ] [ Other websites ]

Information on 2' (60cm) gauge railways, locomotives and rollingstock

United Kingdom
  Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways
  The Industrial Railway Society
  Ruston and Hornsby locos
  Simplex locos
  Armoured 40hp Simplex locos

France
  la voie de 60 (60cm gauge lines in France)

Germany
  Bahnen Von Andreas Christopher
  Die Heeresfeldbahnseiten
  Feldbahn-Fan.de

Austria
  Info on Jenbach locos
  Photos of Jenbach locos

USA
  Two Foot Gage Owners Association (loads of interesting newsletters)


Lines less than 2' gauge ] [ Private 2' gauge lines ] [ Lines greater than 2' gauge ] [ Narrow gauge museums ] [ Information ] [ Forums & buy-n-sell ] [ New Zealand ] [ Publishers & Distributors ] [ Other websites ]

Forums and buy-and-sell lists for 2' (60cm) gauge railways

United Kingdom
  Alan Keef Ltd. (manufacturer of new narrow-gauge locos and dealer in some secondhand)
  www.tractionads.co.uk (monthly newsletter of for-sale items for the railway industry and preservationists)

Germany
  Feldbahnforum
  www.kipplore.de (Feldbahnforum)
  Kleinanzeigen Feldbahn (buy and sell)

Indonesia
  Railways of Indonesia (actually in German but with lots of pictures)

Canada
  Savona Equipment Ltd (a supplier of used mining equipment)
  Nelson Machinery (a supplier of used mining equipment)

Yahoo! Groups
  narrowgaugeowners (...a forum for the sharing of photos and information ... especially private lines built for pleasure on private property...)
  narrowgaugerailroads (...group created for anyone that owns, opperates, or has anything to do with a narrow gauge railroad...)


Lines less than 2' gauge ] [ Private 2' gauge lines ] [ Lines greater than 2' gauge ] [ Narrow gauge museums ] [ Information ] [ Forums & buy-n-sell ] [ New Zealand ] [ Publishers & Distributors ] [ Other websites ]

New Zealand railways

Not limited to 2' (60cm) gauge but mostly within a short drive of our home.
  The Bush Tramway Club (3' 6" gauge)
  Driving Creek Railway and Potteries (15" gauge)
  Goldfields Railway & Waikino Station Cafe (3' 6" gauge)
  Mini Railways in New Zealand (Adobe PDF list of various narrow-gauge railways in New Zealand)
  Ngongotaha Railway Park (7¼", 16" & 3' 6" gauge)
  Victoria Battery Tramway & Museum (2' gauge. Scroll down on this page. I am a member of this society)
  The Waitakere Tramline Society (2' gauge)
  Preserved Narrow Gauge Locomotives


Lines less than 2' gauge ] [ Private 2' gauge lines ] [ Lines greater than 2' gauge ] [ Narrow gauge museums ] [ Information ] [ Forums & buy-n-sell ] [ New Zealand ] [ Publishers & Distributors ] [ Other websites ]

Publishers and Distributors

United Kingdom
  Middleton Press

Germany
  www.schmalspurverlag.de
  Verlag Ingrid Zeunert


Lines less than 2' gauge ] [ Private 2' gauge lines ] [ Lines greater than 2' gauge ] [ Narrow gauge museums ] [ Information ] [ Forums & buy-n-sell ] [ New Zealand ] [ Publishers & Distributors ] [ Other websites ]

Other websites that I just happen to like

  Corsinet - wasting time on the internet, for more than 16 years!
  Intuitor - Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
 
 

News

I have decided to put on hold any plans for a 2' gauge line here in New Zealand. It is not easy to source equipment from overseas and any line built to a gauge of 540mm or more requires an inspection every year by Transit New Zealand - just the same as the standard (3'6") lines.

I am not sure what I am going to do at the moment, but I am erring towards going 15" gauge and building practically everything myself.

Narrow-minded and proud of it!

this page updated: 19th November 2007 
this site last updated: 24th December 2007 
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