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Encyclopedia > Leighton Buzzard Railway

The Leighton Buzzard Railway is a narrow-gauge light railways survivor in Bedfordshire, having been built in the 1920s to transport sand. It has carried passengers since 1968. It operates on a 2ft (610mm) gauge, and is just under 3 miles in length.


External link

  • The Railway website (http://www.buzzrail.co.uk/)

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Leighton Buzzard Railway - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage (365 words)
The Leighton Buzzard Railway is one of the few surviving narrow-gauge light railways in England.
The track is 2 foot (610mm) gauge, and the return journey--from Page's Park on the edge of Leighton Buzzard to Stonehenge Works in the Bedfordshire country side--takes 65 minutes.
The railway was originally built to carry sand from the extensive quarries to the north of Leighton Buzzard, and the collection of locomotives, wagons and quarry machinery reflects this heritage.
Leighton Buzzard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (435 words)
Leighton Buzzard is a town near the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire, and is between Luton and Milton Keynes.
The "Buzzard" was added by the Dean of Lincoln in whose diocese the town was in the 12th century.
The town is known for the Leighton Buzzard Railway, a narrow gauge heritage railway.
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