Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway Explained

The Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway (TNGR) is a narrow-gauge railway running alongside the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway at . It was built in 1985 when the Dowty Railway Preservation Society needed a new home for its collection of narrow-gauge rolling stock. The rail used on the railway was purchased from the Southend Pier Railway.

The railway was originally named the North Gloucestershire Railway, but in 2018 is officially called the Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway.[1]

Locomotives

NameBuilderTypeWorks numberDate builtNotesImage
Chaka's Kraal No. 6 Hunslet20751940Built to an Avonside design, and supplied new to Chaka's Kraal Sugar Estates, Natal. The locomotive was purchased in 1981 by the North Gloucestershire Railway. Following restoration at Ashchurch and Toddington it was based at the South Tynedale Railway until 1999 when it returned to Toddington. Operational, overhaul completed in 2015.
JustineJung9391906Operational, overhaul completed in 2020. Originally built for a Belgian gravel works.
No. 1091 BrigadelokHenschel159681918Overhaul. Boiler returned 31/1/24.[2] Originally used by the German war time light railways supplying the trenches during WW1
TourskaFablokArrived Sept 2015. Overhaul. Boiler returned 31/1/24.[3]
Hunslet66471967Operational. Ex MoD Singapore Naval Dockyard, later at Milford Haven. re-gauged from 2 ft 6in.
Ruston and Hornsby1660101932Operational. Possibly oldest working Ruston & Hornsby loco. Re-gauged from 2 ft 6in.
Ruston and Hornsby3540281953Operational. Originally Ilford Sewerage Works, then Gascoigne Wood Pumping Station in Barking, Essex
Lister345231940Operational
Motor Rail70531937Operational. Ex Gloucester Corporation
IvanF. C. Hibberd & Co.33171948Operational. Ex Kempton Park Water Works
Bryn EglwysSimplex Mechanical Handling Ltd101T0231985This was originally a gauge National Coal Board locomotive from Hem Heath colliery near Stoke-on-Trent.[4] It was purchased by the Talyllyn Railway in September 1997 and re-gauged to 2 ft 3in,[5] and was re-painted into standard Talyllyn livery during summer 2005. The locomotive was named after the Bryn Eglwys slate quarries. The loco was sold to the North Gloucestershire Railway,[6] in August 2014 and re-gauged to 2 ft.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway . Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway.
  2. http://www.toddington-narrow-gauge.co.uk/news/
  3. http://www.toddington-narrow-gauge.co.uk/news/
  4. Book: Engineering Report . Talyllyn News. issue 175 (September 1997) . 6.
  5. Web site: Diesels and Other Self-propelled Vehicles. 5 August 2009. Talyllyn Railway.
  6. Web site: Report of the Council for 2013. 22 September 2014. Talyllyn Railway.