Companies that were never Nationalised
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There were a small number of railway companies that were never nationalised.They mainly fall into two groups :-
- Narrow-gauge lines
- Companies that vanished (as in 'were dissolved') before nationalisation
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[edit] Narrow-Gauge Lines
Bracketed year is the date of closure, if known. A number of lines entered preservation.
- Bowater's Railway - 2'6" line (1969)
- Dinorwic Railway - 1' 10" line
- Ffestiniog Railway - 1' 11" line
- Leighton Buzzard Railway (Industrial line)
- North Wales Narrow Gauge later Welsh Highland Railway - 1' 11" line
- Padarn Railway - 4' 0" line
- Penrhyn Railway - 1'11.5" line (1951)
- Snailbeach District Railways (Industrial line) 1947
- Talyllyn Railway (preserved) - 2'3" line (1951) later preserved
- Winchburugh Railway - 2'6" line (1960)
[edit] Miniature Lines
- Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch
- Ravenglass & Eskdale
- Fairboune Steam Railway (1986) revived under new ownership
[edit] Vanished Companies
(Bracketed year is the date of closure)
- Oakwood Mineral Railway (Sometimes simply called Oakwood Railway)
- Shropshire and Montgomery Railway (1933) - later military use still secret.
- Elan Valley Railway (1904)
- Wrington Vale Light Railway (1931)
- Brill Tramway (1933)
- Liverpool Overhead Railway (1956)
- Hayle Railway - sections (1852)
- Port Talbot Railway-(1924-1938 sections)
- Maidens and Dunure Light Railway- (1942)
- Wick and Lybster Light Railway - (1944)
[edit] Narrow Gauge Lines
(Some of these lines were revived in preservation at a later date.)
- Lynton & Barnstaple -1'11.5" line (1935) - Later preserved.
- Plynlimon and Hafan - 2' 3" -(1899)
- Southwold Railway - 3ft gauge line (1929)
- Ewden Valley Railway -3ft gauge line (1930)
- Sand Hutton Railway - 15" line (1930)
- Leek and Manifold Railway - 2'6" line (1934)
- Glyn Valley Tramway - 2' 4.25" line (1930)
- Grwyne Fawr Light Railway - 3' line (1928)
- Rye and Camber Tramway - 3" line (1939)
- Campbelltown and Machrihanish - 2'3" (1931)
[edit] Other companies
[edit] Offshore lines
- Jersy Eastern Railway - (1929)
- Gurnsey Railway - (1934)
- Jersey Railway - 3'6" -(1936)
- Isle of Man Railway- 3" - (1968 in sections only)
