Narrow Gauge World

The only magazine specialising in narrow gauge railways. We recall the past, and offer comprehensive, in-depth coverage of today’s narrow gauge scene. We speak with authority to our readers, many of whom run narrow-gauge railways.

Narrow Gauge World

From one year to the next…

New Rheidol liveries are a hit

No more crossing flagging on the Leighton Buzzard

Road steam moves out rail steam

New homes sought for big Collection X locomotives

Wren new-build to boost young skills

Kew Wren steams on rapeseed biofuel

Corris Kerr, Stuart rebuild underway

Plenty of narrow gauge on HRA Awards shortlist

Boston Lodge project wins heritage award

BRIEF LINES

New Lynton Manning Wardle loco builds make progress

Austrian carriage gifted to Welshpool

Lynton launches appeal to fund ‘Axe’ overhaul

Unloved Manx diesel back on the line

Moseley tops out new museum

Evesham’s Dougal heads for the Lido

Mark Smithers

Fairbourne and Haigh repeat carriage swap 40 years on

Fairbourne loco to return to birthplace

Lisbon funicular in runaway disaster ‘used wrong cable’

Alishan tests its premium train

Traffic surge sends Darj line out of red

Metal theft puts brakes on restoration

Board paints bleak picture of Harz’s future prospects

BRIEF LINES

150 up for sole survivor

Kenneth Zadnichek

Transylvanian trackwork • David Rowbotham describes the delights of getting involved in pioneer-style railway restoration on the Sibiu Agnita Railway in Romania.

Nutty and its peers • James Waite focuses on the tiny low-slung Sentinel now at Welshpool and its sister locomotives and railcars still surviving in far-flung parts of the world.

No slowing at season’s end… • Late-season charters and events have kept the photographers busy before the winter break.

The Longest Rack • Donald Brooks completes a trilogy on spectacular lines serving the Swiss Jungfrau with the Wengernalpbahn, which at almost 20km claims the title of the world’s longest pure rack railway.

Waking a sleeping giant • Change is coming to a line that has previously generated little coverage in NGW. Andrew Charman previews a new era on the Brecon Mountain Railway.

November at the National • A trip to the Birmingham NEC for a national model railway exhibition remains a November tradition, enjoyed again this year by Andrew Charman.

Small objects of delight…

Seen at the NEC…

Puffing Billy carriages in 7mm scale

Shock as Pecorama to stay closed in 2026

ON THE SHELF

VIEWPOINT

Delights of Irish digital archive…

That was the year that… • Narrow gauge news from the archives and their legacy…

YouTube Watch: online NG films

Not a Pixie in sight… • In the darker days of the year, it is timely for Donald Brooks to recall a winter afternoon with distinctly gothic overtones.