Britain's Great Little Railways is a company, created in 1994, to provide an umbrella organisation for the owners and operators of the

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and

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...

railways in Great Britain and the

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. It represents railways with gauges between and . Its members include purely commercial operators and

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with long histories, such as the Rhyl Miniature Railway which celebrated its centenary in 2011.

Administration

The company is run on a not for profit basis with four directors who are volunteers chosen from and elected by the members. The stated aim of the company is to share knowledge and information and to improve the safety of the members' railways. It is a corporate member of the

Heritage Railway Association Heritage Railway Association (HRA) is an umbrella organisation representing the majority of the heritage and tourist railways, railway museums, steam centres and railway preservation groups in the UK and Ireland. Groups and individuals involved ...

Meetings

Two members' meetings are held each year in March and October at a member railway. The company publishes posters, leaflets, an e-magazine and a website about its member railways. In 2011 there are over 30 member railways spread across the UK.

Members

{{As of, April 2025, the organisation comprises the following railways: * Alexandra Park Woodland Railway * Barnards Miniature Railway *

Beer Heights Light Railway The Beer Heights Light Railway operates of minimum-gauge track at Beer, Devon, England. It is part of Pecorama, an exhibition owned by Peco. Overview The official opening was by Rev. W.V. Awdry on 14 July 1975, at which time it offered a ...

* Bekonscot Railway * Bentley Miniature Railway * Brickworks Miniature Railway * Bridge View Light Railway *

Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway The Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway is a minimum-gauge railway that primarily serves holidaymakers in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England. It operates from near the Cleethorpes Leisure Centre, running to the mouth of the Buck Beck. ...

* Crewe Heritage Centre Miniature Railway * East Herts Miniature Railway * Eastleigh Lakeside Steam Railway *

Echills Wood Railway The Echills Wood Railway is a miniature hobbyist railway in Kingsbury Water Park, Warwickshire, England. A feature of the railway is its gnome village, a collection of garden gnomes donated by the public. The gnome village was vandalised in ...

* Exbury Gardens Steam Railway *

Fairbourne Railway The Fairbourne Railway () is a gauge Ridable miniature railway, miniature railway running for from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, alongside the beach to the end of a peninsula at Barmouth Ferry railway station, where there ...

Fancott Miniature Railway The Fancott Miniature Railway (FMR) is a gauge railway located in the gardens of the Fancott public house in Fancott (near Toddington), Bedfordshire Bedfordshire (; abbreviated ''Beds'') is a Ceremonial County, ceremonial county in the ...

* Ferry Meadows Railway *

Great Laxey Mine Railway The Great Laxey Mine Railway was originally constructed to serve the Isle of Man's Great Laxey Mine, a lead Mining, mine located in Laxey. The gauge railway runs from the old mine entrance to the Laxey Washing Floors, washing floors along a ri ...

Hastings Miniature Railway The Hastings Miniature Railway is a gauge miniature railway located on the seafront at Hastings, a seaside resort, town, and ancient cinque port, in East Sussex, England. Opened in 1948, it remains a popular tourist attraction. The line was re ...

* Ingfield Light Railway *

Lappa Valley Railway The Lappa Valley Railway is a minimum-gauge railway located near Newquay in Cornwall. The railway functions as a tourist attraction, running from Benny Halt () to East Wheal Rose (), where there is a leisure area with two miniature railways. ...

* Leek & Rudyard Railway *

Littlehampton Miniature Railway Littlehampton is a town, seaside resort and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the English Channel on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. It is south south-west of London, west of Brighton and ...

* Mizens Miniature Railway *

Moors Valley Railway The Moors Valley Railway is a narrow gauge railway, narrow gauge passenger railway, in the Moors Valley Country Park at Ashley Heath, Dorset, England near Ringwood, Hampshire, Ringwood in Hampshire. There are 20 steam locomotives and 2 diesel ...

* Museum of Power – Langford and Beeleigh MR * Rhyl Miniature Railway * Riverside Miniature Railway *

Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) is a gauge light railway in Kent, England, operating steam and internal combustion locomotives. The line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe, Kent, Hythe via Dymchurch, St Mary's Bay, Kent, St. ...

Scarborough North Bay Railway Scarborough North Bay Railway (SNBR) is a ridable miniature railway (also known as a minimum-gauge railway) in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1931, to the gauge of , and runs for approximately between Peasholm Park an ...

* Shibden Miniature Railway * South Devon Miniature Railway * South Downs Light Railway *

Stapleford Miniature Railway Stapleford Miniature Railway is an historic steam locomotive-hauled gauge railway at Stapleford Park, Stapleford near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. The railway is now private but still attracts thousands of visitors during its two ...

* Summerfields Miniature Railway * Swanley New Barn Railway * Thompson Park Railway * Watford Miniature Railway * Whitfield Light Railway

References

* Britain's Great Little Railways Ltd registered in England 3143331

External links

Official Britain's Great Little Railways website
Narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom

Administration

Meetings

Members

See also

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