heavier than most railways. Also in Japan, originally, "light railway" refers to a railway built or operated under the Light Railways Act enforced in 1909...
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Light Railways is a magazine produced by the Light Railway Research Society of Australia (LRRSA). The subtitle is "Australia's Magazine of Industrial and...
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The Light Railways Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 48) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Before the act each...
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Department Light Railways were a system of narrow gauge trench railways run by the British War Department in World War I. Light railways made an important...
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Martin's Light Railways (MLR) consisted of seven narrow-gauge railway lines in the states of West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in India. The railways were...
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The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro system primarily serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London and providing a direct...
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H. F. Stephens (redirect from Colonel Stephens Railways)
rural areas, mostly planned and built under the 1896 Light Railways Act. His first two railways, the Rye and Camber Tramway and the Hundred of Manhood...
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Rail transport in Sudan (redirect from Gezira Light Railway)
Tokar. It used ex-War Department Light Railways rolling stock and Simplex locomotives. It was absorbed by Sudan Railways in 1933 and closed in 1952. In...
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by the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway (Abandonment) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. ii). In August 1896, the Light Railways Act 1896 was passed, and this spurred...
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The National Company of Light Railways (Dutch: Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen, abbreviated as NMVB; French: Société Nationale des Chemins de...
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