Roger Farnworth Railways

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The Cavan & Leitrim Railway once again ...

This is my final post about the Cavan & Leitrim Railway. It includes details about locos and rolling stock but starts with some information about the preservation society at Dromod and the heritage centre at Belturbet.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/07/01/the...miscellany

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Gazelle

King's Lynn was the birthplace of a unique locomotive - Gazelle.

One of the directors of the Docks and Harbour Railways in King's Lynn was William Burkitt, a self-made local business man who had the means to order his own locomotive from Alfred Dodman & Company of Kings Lynn. The loco was named 'Gazelle'. This is the story of that locomotive. It pulls, Colonel Stephens, King's Lynn and the Shropshire and Montgomery Light Railway into one story!

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/07/21/gazelle

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The West Clare Railway once again.

This is my final post about the West Clare Railway. I hope that you have enjoyed the series.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/07/16/the...miscellany

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The Uganda Railway

My wife and I were in Uganda in April and May 2018, I have been to Uganda a number of times before. The national railway system is metre-gauge. I hope this first post is of interest to members of this forum. This series of posts take us along the full length of the railway from Mombasa on the Kenyan coast to the West of Uganda.

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/201...ays-part-1

Other posts about our trip to Uganda, but not railway related, can be found on this link:

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/category/uganda

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The Uganda Railway

This second post provides some more information about the history of what is often called 'The Lunatic Line'.

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/201...ays-part-2

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The Uganda Railway

This third post in the series starts the journey along the 'Lunatic Line'.

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/201...ays-part-3

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Gazelle's Coaches

Gazelle is known to have taken charge of two different coaches in its time on the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway. The first was a cut down version of a London Horse Tram. The second used the same chassis with a body from a Wolseley-Siddeley Railcar which Colonel Stephens first used on the Selsey Tramway. That Railcar was itself a signioficantly modifies rail-lorry based on a Wolseley-Siddeley chassis........

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/07/27/gazelles-trailers

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The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway again. ......

Colonel Stephens loved to experiment. Railmotors were a particular theme. He bought a series of Ford Railmotors for his different light railways. One set was purchased for the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway. This post provides an introduction to these small vehicles:

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/08/02/for...n-the-smlr

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The Uganda Railway again. ...

There's some fascinating detail about East African Railways at the end of steam here, not by enthusiasts from Britain but by schoolboys of expat families at the "European" school in Nairobi, who had substantial experience of travel by the train in the 1950s-60s. There's quite a bit of technical detail, along with a few classic schoolboy japes involving the train.

http://www.oldcambrians.com/Train4.html

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The Uganda Railway again. ...

The 4th post in a series about Uganda Railways.

This post covers the journey along the original Uganda Railway from Mazeras to Voi.

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/201...ras-to-voi