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Other Talyllyn Railway pages

• Alan Newble's Talyllyn Railway photo gallery
• John Hurst's Talyllyn Railway photographs
• Colin Parsons' Talyllyn Railway page
• Talyllyn Tracksiders
• Llechfan Garden Railway

See also links to sites offering photographs of the railway, in our photo gallery.

General narrow gauge sites

• The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum (based at Tywyn Wharf Station).
• Erik Ledbetter's excellent Trainspotting in Wales web site, describing his visits to the Talyllyn, Vale of Rheidol, Ffestiniog and Snowdon Mountain railways, plus the Cambrian Coast line, in April 1997.
• The Great Little Trains of Wales
• Narrow Gauge on the Net - American NG lines.
• Thomas Wright's narrow gauge pictures.
• The Narrow Gauge Railway Society.
• Nick Lewis' Narrow Gauge Pleasure pages.
• Jaap Stuurman's Welsh narrow gauge models (including Talyllyn), at the 009 Society Dutch Group's site (select "Project", then "Bryn Goch").
• Stafford Railway Circle have a strong group of narrow gauge modellers.
• Minitrains - miniature and narrow gauge lines.
• Narrow Gauge Heaven - news, photos, railway directory and discussion forums.

Pages for individual narrow gauge railways

Welsh Railways

• The Ffestiniog Railway from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
• The Welsh Highland Railway at Porthmadog
• The Welsh Highland Railway Project - the Ffestiniog-led project to re-open the WHR
• The Corris Railway Society - close neighbour of the Talyllyn and source of some TR locos and rolling stock
• The Fairbourne and Barmouth Steam Railway
• The Teifi Valley Railway in West Wales
• The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
• The Bala Lake Railway
• The Glyn Valley Tramway Group
• The Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway - photos by Simon Robinson of this long-departed line of the same gauge as the Talyllyn.
• The Penrhyn Railway Heritage Trust.

Elsewhere in the British Isles

• Isle of Man - Transport Heritage - the various wonderful railways of the IOM
• Isle of Man Transport
• North Ings Farm Museum in Lincolnshire, home of the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum's Simplex locomotive Penelope and Ruston locomotive Indian Runner.
• The South Tynedale Railway, Alston, Cumbria.
• The Leighton Buzzard Railway in Bedfordshire.
• The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria.
• The Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway in Kent.
• The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, a 15 inch gauge line in Kent.
• The Brit Valley Railway - a proposed narrow-gauge line in Dorset.
• The Golden Valley Light Railway, at the Midland Railway Centre.
• The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway
• The Moseley Railway Trust
• The Cavan & Leitrim Railway at Dromod, Co. Leitrim.
• Cumann Traenach na Gaeltachta L?ir (Central Gaeltacht Train Society), Fintown, Co. Donegal.
• The Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society
• The Rudyard Lake Steam Railway
• The Yaxham Light Railway, a privately owned collection next to the preserved Great Eastern Railway Station at Yaxham, Norfolk.
• The Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum.

Outside the British Isles

• Puffing Billy Railway near Melbourne, Australia - twinned with the Talyllyn Railway
• The Waldviertler Schmalspurbahnverein (Waldviertel narrow-gauge society) in Austria, also another page describing the course of the line.
• P'tit train de la Haute Somme, a 60 cm gauge steam railway, and military and industrial railways museum in France.
• The Risten-Lakviks Railway, a two-foot gauge line in Sweden.
• The Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society near Sydney, New South Wales.
• The Walhalla Goldfields Railway in Australia.