SMALLEST RAILWAY
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The smallest public railway in the world has been demolished and was recently re-opened to. passengers. It is the independently-owned Eomney Hythe, and Dymchurch Light Railway in Kent, with 15inch gauge, and cars built to scale. When the engineer sits at the back of the steam-driven locomotive, half of his body protrudes from the little cab. While used normally as a novelty by summer tourists, the line is also utilitarian, since it is the only one serving the three towns by direct route. During . the war the coastal area where the R.H. and D. makes its twelve-mile run (more or less) was banned to travellers and the railway was requisitioned to do a warjob. Fitted with anti-aircraft guns, it fought with the enemy, and also transported thousands of tons of material and pipeline for Pluto, the giant pipeline under the sea.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 91, 7 February 1947, Page 3
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146SMALLEST RAILWAY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 91, 7 February 1947, Page 3
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