Ashorne Hall Railway

Infobox rail
railroad_name=Ashorne Hall Railway
gauge= 12¼in
start_year=circa 1995
end_year=2003
length=½mile
hq_city=Warwick
locale=EnglandThe Ashorne Hall Railway was a minimum gauge railway in Warwick, Warwickshire, England [cite journal |journal=The Heywood Society Journal |title=The Nickleodeon lane at Ashorne Hall |publisher=The Heywood Society |volume=38 | year=1996] [cite journal |journal=Narrow Gauge News |publisher=The Narrow Gauge Railway Society |year=1998 |volume=226 |title=Ashorne Hall Miniature Railway] . It was conceived as an added attraction to the collection of mechanical musical instruments at the Ashorne Hall museum. It was completed in the mid-1990s and was called the Nickelodeon Line.

It was 12¼in gauge and had a clever and complicated track layout giving a journey of about one mile (1.6 km) in a restricted area of convert|6|acre|m2. With two substantial stations, a tunnel and engine shed it was very well equipped. With the death of its creator Graham Whitehead in 2003, the railway closed. It was dismantled and sold in 2005 and the track lifted. The steam locomotive is now at the Rudyard Lake Steam Railway and the petrol locomotive and carriages at the Wilderness Railway.

Equipment

;Locomotives
*2-4-2T Ashorne, built 1994 by Exmoor Steam Railway
*2-4-2 Bella, built locally on chassis supplied by Exmoor Steam Railway

;Rolling stock
*5 bogie carriages
*2 tip wagons

References

External links

* [http://freespace.virgin.net/hanson.mike/Ashorne.htm History and pictures of the Ashorne Hall Railway]
* [http://www.cmburgess.co.uk/ashorne/index.htm Pictures of the Ashorne Hall Railway]