Narrow Perspectives is an interesting website featuring a collection of photographs of narrow gauge railways in the British Isles. Most of the pictures are from the last twenty years or so but there is a section featuring historic photographs and another with photos from the 1960s of the Ffestiniog Railway’s Deviation Project.
Here are some photos I took in June 2006 on the Vale of Rheidol railway in Wales at Aberffrwd station. Note the substantial nature of the track (c. 60lb/yd) and modern pointwork which is typical of modern preserved NG railways in the UK.
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The attached table of British NG rail and sleeper sizes (PDF) shows the main (flat bottom) rail weights and sleeper sizes and spacing for some of the principle British narrow gauge railways at various stages of their existence.
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