ALL ABOARD FOR HYTHE AND DYMCHURCH
world's smallest railway riesumes civilian service The smallest public railway in the world has been demobilised and was recently re-opened to passengers. It is - the indepently-owned Romney Hythe, and Dymchureh Light Railway in Kent, with 15-inch gauge, and cars buiit to scale. When the engineer sits at the back of tjhe 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. malces its twelve-mile run (more or less) was banned to travellers, and the railway was requistioned to do a war-job. Fitted witlh anti-aircraft iguns, 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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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5303, 16 January 1947, Page 7
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153ALL ABOARD FOR HYTHE AND DYMCHURCH Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5303, 16 January 1947, Page 7
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