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Description
Minimum Gauge Railways, by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood, treats the fifteen inch gauge line. A third edition was printed for private circulation in the author lifetime. It tells the origin and growth of the line at Duffield Bank near Derby. A similar line at Eaton Hall near Chester gets its own account in the book.
Objects of the fifteen inch gauge opens the contents after the introduction. Construction of the Duffield Bank line and details of the Eaton Hall line follow. Locomotives, then wagons and cars, fill the middle chapters of the work. The Duffield Bank workshops and scientific considerations come next in the list. Remarks on narrow gauge railways and an appendix close the contents. An estate toy that hauled real loads argues for tiny railways in earnest.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 135 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |