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UK Railway Preservation - Welsh Narrow Gauge

• Welsh Highland Railway - my pages, in case you missed them! 600mm gauge.
• Welsh Highland Railway (Caernarfon)  - new official site for tourists.
• The Welsh Highland Railway Project  - Ben Fisher's pages describing rebuilding work being carried out by the Ffestiniog Railway and the Welsh Highland Railway Society (who are not to be confused with the original Welsh Highland Railway Society formed over 30 years earlier).
• WHR construction website by Barrie Hughes  (WHR(C)).
• Ffestiniog Railway  - our friends on t'other side of town. 597mm gauge. (old Ffestiniog Railway website ).
• Ffestiniog Railway Heritage Group  including a Heritage Information Wiki  for FR and WHR.
• The Great Little Trains of Wales  - loads of pretty little Welsh railways.
• The LYd2 Page  - more details about the most powerful 2' gauge Diesel Locomotives in Britain.
• Narrow Gauge Railway Museum  - Towyn, Talyllyn Railway
• Corris Railway Society  - not yet a Great Little Train of Wales, but maybe one day...
• Penrhyn Railway  - to conserve, restore and recreate part of the Penrhyn Quarry slate mill, works and railway.

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UK Railway Preservation - Other British Narrow Gauge

• Narrow Gauge Heaven , dedicated to narrow gauge railways in the UK and throughout the world. A useful directory  lists all the British Narrow Gauge.

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UK Railway Preservation - Standard Gauge 4' 8½"

General Information:

• All UK Heritage Railways  compiled by Mark Dewell -
  • News , Events ,
  • abc listing  of preserved railways
  • UK Map  of preserved railways.
• The Signal Box , an excellent resource on British Signalling practice.

A selection of my favourites:

• Llangollen Railway , rebuilding to Corwen.
• Mid Hants Railway , - The Watercress Line. My 'local'.
• Peak Rail , - now 3.5 miles long and ultimately 20 miles between Matlock and Buxton. Watch that space, as they say!
• Romsey Signal Box , - a small but significant project: a working signal box dating from about 1871. See also The Signal Box  for all matters signalling.
• Swanage Railway , recently re-joined to Network Rail metals.
• National Railway Museum , York.

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UK Railway Services

• National Rail  has complete UK
  • Timetables Online 
  • Live Departure Boards 
  • TOCS and Railway Maps .
• UK Railways on the Net  also has
  • Timetables 
  • Train Operating Companies 
• Transport Direct  door-to-door journey planner - this got off to a poor start. Has it improved? You decide.
• Network Rail  (formerly Railtrack)
• The North Wales Coast Railway  - a good gricer's page!
• Other UK Railway Sites  - part of Mark Dewell listings.

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UK Railway Interest Groups

• The Branch Line Society  dedicated to railway by-ways.
• The Railway Development Society's Railwatch Magazine  and RailFuture  site.
• Transport 2000  - campaigners for better UK transport by encouraging much better alternatives to car travel.
  Platform  is Transport 2000's rail campaigning and information network.
• Friends of the Earth  environmental campaigners:
  • FoE's Railway Transport Campaign .
• H.M. Government
  • Department for Transport .
  • Official Publications: HMSO  and British Official Publications Current Awareness Service .
• Welsh Railway Research Circle  brings together modellers and researchers who specialise in the railways of Wales and the Border Counties. The principal purpose of the WRRC is to put members in touch with others of similar interests and to go some way to avoid duplication of research effort.

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Around the World

Australia

• Puffing Billy Railway  in the Dandenong Ranges.
• Walhalla Goldfields Railway , Moe to Walhalla.

South Africa

• The South African Railways Page  and SAR Narrow Gauge Page 

Switzerland

• Swiss Rail-Info  narrow gauge guide.

Sweden

• Risten - Lakviks Järnväg  railway preservation society.

Japan

• Japanese railway society 
• Yunnan narrow gauge railways 

USA

World-Wide

• RailServe  - an internet railroad directory.
• Yahoo (UK): Trains and Railways .