Ardkinglas Railway

Ardkinglas Railway

Infobox rail
railroad_name=Ardkinglas Railway
gauge=RailGauge|24
start_year=before 1879
end_year=early 1900s
length= yards
hq_city=Ardrishaig
locale=Scotland
successor_line=AbandonedThe Ardkinglas Railway was a narrow gauge estate railway built to serve the Ardkinglas Estate on the shores of Loch Fyne.

The railway ran along the shore of the loch from a boat house at Caspian.

The railway was built as a transportation system for the estate and as a garden toy for the estate's 17th Laird George Livingston-Campbell-Callander. A single steam locomotive operated the line; rolling stock consisted of an open passenger carriage and several wagons.

The railway was dismantled around 1900 and the equipment sold. The boiler from the locomotive was still in situ on the beach at Tayvallich on Loch Sween until the early 1950s.

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* British narrow gauge railways


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