Cadeby Light Railway
| Cadeby Light Railway | |
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 The last train in Cadeby, 2005
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| Route length: | 0.09 km |
| Gauge : | 610 mm ( 2 foot track ) |
The Cadeby Light Railway was a narrow gauge railway with a gauge of 610 mm (2 feet ) in the garden of the rectory of Cadeby , Leicestershire .
history
Reverend Edwin Boston became rector of All Saints' Church in Cadeby in the early 1960s . He is known worldwide as "the Fat Clergyman" in the children's book series The Railway Series by Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry .
He was a train fanatic all his life and wanted to build a miniature train in his garden. Because of the high costs, he postponed the project and instead looked for a used narrow-gauge railway locomotive. In 1962 he bought Pixie , a two-axle WG Bagnall saddle tank locomotive ( 0-4-0ST ) from the quarry in Cranford . The quarry owners gave him a short piece of track and two carts so that the Cadeby Light Railway could be opened.
Over the years, Boston acquired a large collection of narrow-gauge vehicles that were formerly used industrially and that could be driven back and forth on the almost 90 m long section of track. After the Reverend Boston's death in 1986, his widow Audrey ran the railroad for nearly 20 more years, hosting regular open days. In 2005 it was closed and most of the items in the collection were taken over by the Moseley Railway Trust in Apedale Community Country Park.
Web links
- Edwin Boston on Wikipedia
Individual evidence
- ^ Brian Sibley: The Thomas the Tank Engine Man . Heinemann, 1995, ISBN 0-434-96909-5 , p. 148.
Coordinates: 52 ° 36'38.1 " N , 1 ° 22'23.1" W.