Bicton Woodland Railway

Infobox rail
railroad_name=Bicton Woodland Railway
gauge=RailGauge|18
start_year=1963
end_year=Present
length=1359 yards
hq_city=Budleigh Salterton
locale=England

The Bicton Woodland Railway is a narrow gauge railway running in gardens in the grounds of Bicton House near Budleigh Salterton in Devon.

The line was built in 1962 as a tourist attraction for visitors to the house. Most of the rolling stock was acquired from the Royal Arsenal Railway, Woolwich, with two locomotives, "Woolwich" and "Carnegie" coming from that source, as well as seven goods wagons which were reduced to their frames and converted to passenger carriages. It opened to passengers in 1963. Originally locomotives and carriages had royal blue livery.

Additional rolling stock was acquired from the RAF Fauld railway and the internal railway of the LNWR Wolverton works.

In 1998 the Bicton Gardens were put up for sale and the railway put into hiatus. The new owners announced in late 1999 that they would sell the line's existing stock and re-equip with steam outline diesel locomotives supplied by Alan Keef. The line's original equipment was purchased by the Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills museum at Waltham Abbey.

Locomotives

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ee also

* British narrow gauge railways