List of 2 ft 3 in gauge railways

A list of known 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow-gauge railways:

Corris Railway
Talyllyn Railway
Name Opened Closed Length Location Notes
Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway [1][2] 1877 1932[3] 6 miles (9.7 km) Mull of Kintyre, Scotland Remote line serving coal mines and passengers on the Kintyre peninsula.
Caphouse Colliery[4] 1988 present c. 2,000 yards (1,800 m) National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield Demonstration funicular railway.
Corris Railway 1859 present 12 1⁄4 miles (19.7 km) [3] Machynlleth, Wales Built to carry slate from the Corris district. Closed after flooding of the Afon Dyfi. Reopened in 2002.
Glasgow Royal Infirmary Railway[5] circa 1910 circa 1920 c. 400 feet (122 m) Glasgow, Scotland Railway underground in the basement of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Operated by a battery-electric locomotive, and carried laundry. Closed following an accident in 1920, but sections of rail are still visible in the basement.
Hendra China Stone Quarry[6] 1860s 1967 after Unknown Nanpean, England Internal quarry tramway system with cable hauled inclines.
Huncoat Colliery Unknown 1968?[7] Unknown Huncoat, England National Coal Board mine railway. One diesel was sold to the Talyllyn Railway, and runs as No. 9 Alf.[8][9]
Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway[3] 1897 1899 7 miles (11.3 km)[3] Talybont, Wales Short-lived line serving the lead mines around Hafan.
Quarry Close China Stone Works[6] 1863 1973 Unknown Nanpean, England A network of lines connecting several quarries to the GWR branch line from Drinnick Mill.
Talyllyn Railway[3] 1865 present 7 1⁄4 miles (11.7 km) Tywyn, Wales Built to carry slate from Bryn Eglwys quarry to the coast.
York Gasworks Company[10] 1915 1959 c. 400 feet (120 m) York, England Electrified railway, operated by a locomotive built by Dick, Kerr & Co.

Similar gauges

No railways of an identical gauge are known outside Britain, though lines of 700 mm (2 ft 3 9⁄16 in) gauge are known in Latvia and Romania and several Cuban sugar cane railways.[11]

Other British railways of similar, but not identical, gauge were:

See also

References
  1. Nigel S.C. Macmillan (1970). The Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway. David & Charles: Newton Abbot.
  2. "Macrihanish Online". 2011. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  3. Whitehouse, Patrick & Snell, John (1984). Narrow gauge railways of the British Isles. David & Charles. ISBN 0715301969.
  4. Keith Turner (2002). Cliff Railways of the British Isles. The Oakwood Press. p. 119.
  5. Voice, David (2007). Hospital Tramways and Railways (3rd ed.). Adam Gordon. p. 43. ISBN 978 1 874422 67 9.
  6. Dart, Maurice (2005). Cornwall Narrow Gauge including the Camborne & Redruth tramway. Middleton Press. ISBN 190447456X.
  7. Colliery closed 1968. "The Huncoat Trails". Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  8. Bate, J.H.L. (2001). The Chronicles of Pendre Sidings. RailRomances. pp. 158, 160. ISBN 1-900622-05-X.
  9. Potter, D. (1990). The Talyllyn Railway. David St John Thomas. p. 202. ISBN 0-946537-50-X.
  10. Mitchell, Vic & Smith, Keith (2003). Branch Line to the Derwent Valley, including the Foss Islands Branch. Midhurst: Middleton Press. plate 24. ISBN 1-904474-06-3.
  11. "Sugar Cane Railways in Cuba, 2003" (PDF).
  12. "Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways in England". Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  13. "Century of mining ends at Welbeck Colliery". BBC news. 11 May 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
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