On The British Narrow Gauge – Michael Harris

The Narrow Gauge has never died. Even after the Lynton & Barnstable, Leek and Manifold and others had closed, there was the industrial narrow gauge. Then came preservation. Then much of the industial motive power was used to create a new narrow gauge era still in the process of evolving in stately homes and gardens, the play toys of wealthy collectors, and along even the beds of former standard gauge lines. The narrow gauge phoenix has risen again.