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Tower View |
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Depot |
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Common Lane |
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Pinesway Junction |
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Park Lane |
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The Gartell Light Railway is a privately run narrow gauge edutainment railway located at Yenston, south of Templecombe, in Somerset, England. It operates a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway running for Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value)., partly along the track of the old Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.The railway has 4 stations - Common Lane, Pinesway Junction, Park Lane and Tower View. The railway is controlled using a comprehensive signalling system operated from two signalboxes - Common lane and Pinesway Junction. Both signalboxes control a mix of semaphore and colour light signals with mechanically operated points. The railway is open to the public on selected dates through the year when it normally operates an intensive 3 train operation with departures from Common Lane station every 20 minutes through the day between 1030 and 1630.
Locomotives
Number |
Name |
Builder |
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Works number |
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AMANDA |
Gartell Light Railway |
Bo-BoDH |
2000 |
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Ex Southend Pier Railway, rebuilt on the railway |
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ANDREW |
Baguley-Drewry |
4wDH |
1973 |
3699 |
Acquired in 2007 |
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ALISON |
Alan Keef |
4wDH |
1993 |
10[1] |
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6 |
Mr. G |
North Dorset Locomotive Works |
0-4-2T |
1998 |
698[1] |
Newly built for the line, based on the design of W.G. Bagnall locomotive Polar Bear |
9 |
Jean |
Alan White |
0-4-0T+T |
2008 |
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See also
References
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External links
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Operational railways
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