Heritage route
Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
Page’s Park → Stonehenge Works · England
Leighton Buzzard Light Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 5 km
- Fastest time
- 40 min
- Average speed
- 8 km/h
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1968
- Operator
- Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway
- Train
- 2 ft gauge industrial steam & diesel
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Built in 1919 to carry sand from the Bedfordshire quarries and running passenger trains since 1968: two-foot-gauge industrial steam and diesel from Page’s Park to Stonehenge Works.
The line opened on 20 November 1919 to carry sand from the quarries at Double Arches to the main line at Grovebury, after the quarry companies were barred from sending it by road, and it was built with surplus War Department light-railway equipment. Its first steam engines were unsuited to the tight curves and were sold in 1921, making it one of the first British railways worked almost entirely by internal combustion. When the last quarry traffic went to road in the late 1960s, volunteers took the line over as a heritage railway.
How this line was checked
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
How long is the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway?
The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway runs 5 km from Page’s Park to Stonehenge Works.
How long does the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 40 min for the 5 km. That is an average of 8 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway?
Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway, with 2 ft gauge industrial steam & diesel.
How old is the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway?
The line has been in service since 1968. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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