Yaxham Light Railway
| Yaxham Light Railway | |
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 Yaxham Light Railway, 2009
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| Gauge : | 610 mm ( 2 foot track ) |
The Yaxham Light Railway is a narrow gauge - museum railway with a track width of 610 mm (2 feet ) in the village of Yaxham in Norfolk ( England ) at the station of the Mid-Norfolk Railway .
history
In 1967, the tenant of the DC Potter station building laid the first narrow-gauge railroad tracks at a freight transshipment point in order to drive there with his Hunslet type B ( 0-4-0ST ) "Cackler". The tracks he used at that time are still visible from the passing trains of the Mid-Norfolk Railway and are now used again for the freight transport of the museum railway. However, the steam locomotive was moved over the standard-gauge track to the then 800 m long tracks of the Yaxham Park Light Railway (YPLR), which had been laid on the meadows behind the station and was finally taken over by today's Yaxham Light Railway and replaced with other rails were.
today
The main route is still around 330 m long today. Vehicles that have been acquired from mines and other locations over the years run on it. Passenger trains are usually pulled by diesel locomotives (as of 2005).
vehicles
Narrow gauge steam locomotives
- YLR No. 1 - “Coffee Pot” - steam locomotive built in Yaxam with a vertical boiler
- YLR No. 16 - “Elin” - Hunslet -Stone quarrying locomotive “Small Quarry” type 0-4-0 with saddle tank, built in 1899
- YLR No. 20 - “Kidbrooke” - WG Bagnall Ltd type 0-4-0, built in 1917
Narrow gauge diesel locomotives
- YLR No. 2 - “Rusty” - Lister “Rail-Truck”, built in 1948
- YLR No. 3 - “Pest” - Lister “Rail-Truck”, built in 1954
- YLR No. 4 - “Goofy” - Orenstein & Koppel with a single cylinder heavy oil engine
- YLR No. 6 - “Colonel” - Ruston & Hornsby, built in 1940
- YLR No. 7 - Ruston & Hornsby 16 hp, built in 1934
- YLR No. 10 - “Ousel” - Motor Rail Ltd '20 / 28hp 'with plate frame, built in 1937
- YLR No. 13 - Motor Rail Ltd '20 / 28hp 'with plate frame, built in 1940
- YLR No. 14 - “Coldmeece” - Ruston & Hornsby type '20DL', built in 1943
- YLR No. 18 - “Planet” - FC Hibberd & Co Ltd Type '39', built in 1962
- YLR No. 19 - “Penlee” - Hudson Hunslet 25 HP, built in 1942
Standard gauge freight cars
- GWR 126977 MOGO Cars freight car
Individual evidence
- ^ Yaxham Light Railway; Yaxham Station and its railways. ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 13, 2006 and June 27, 2015.
- ^ Yaxham Light Railway (2005). Site layout . Retrieved January 13, 2006 and June 27, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 0 ° 57 ′ 34.8 ″ E