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Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway

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Overview
Operation
Bus replacement Awards
Locomotives
Rolling stock
See also
References
External links

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The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, a {{RailGauge|2ft|lk=on}} narrow gauge railway in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, is laid on the trackbed of the former Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch of the Caledonian Railway which led off the main line between {{stnlnk|Carlisle}} and Glasgow at Elvanfoot.

Overview

The "preserved" section runs from Leadhills for about {{convert|1|km|mi|1}} towards Wanlockhead and is the highest adhesion railway in the UK. The rack and pinion Snowdon Mountain Railway is higher. Trains are currently diesel worked with the locomotive propelling the train up hill away from Leadhills.

The original railway closed in the late 1930s shortly after the mines in Wanlockhead had closed.

The railway currently stops at the border of South Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway.

Operation

Trains operate on the push-pull principle as there are no run round loop facilities at the end of the run. Movements within the main station site at Leadhills are controlled from the reconstructed signal box which contains the original lever frame from Arrochar and Tarbet signal box.

Bus replacement

For two weeks during July 2016 the railway operated an extended service, connecting with local bus routes, as the road between Wanlockhead and Leadhills was closed for repairs.^[1]

Awards

The Leadhills & Wanlockhead won the Heritage Railway Association Annual Awards 2016, Small Groups

Locomotives

Most locomotives are fitted with air brakes to allow them to operate passenger trains.

Number	Name	Builder	Type	Build Date	Arrival Date	Works Number	Livery	Notes	Service
L&WR 2, KD7, L114	Elvan	Motor Rail	4wDM	3 March 1955	13 March 1986	9792	Blue	Built for the London Brick Company, King's Dyke Works, Whittlesea.	In Service
L&WR 4	Luce	Ruston and Hornsby	4wDM	September 1966	13 November 1987	7002/0467/6	Green	Built for contractors Edmund Nuttall Ltd, Leith.	In Service
L&WR 5	Little Clyde	Ruston and Hornsby	4wDM	September 1966	13 November 1987	7002/0467/2	Originally White, Currently in Green	Built for contractors Edmund Nuttall Ltd, Leith.	In Service
L&WR 6, NCB 20/180/4	Clyde Previously known as The Peril	Hunslet	4wDM	1975	January 1990	HE6347	Originally Yellow, Currently in Blue	Built for National Coal Board, Eppleton Colliery.	Out of Service
L&WR 8, NCB 1-44-121	Nith	Hudswell Clarke	4wDMF	1956	October 1996, Returned from restoration June 1998	DM1002	Red	Built for the National Coal Board, Waterloo Main Colliery.	In Service
(9)	Charlotte	Orenstein & Koppel	0-4-0WT	1913	1994	OK6335	Green	Imported from Belgium. Being restored to full working order.	Stored
L&WR 10	Mennock Previously known as Eileen	Hunslet-Barclay	0-4-0DM	1994	2012	LD 9348	White	Helped with the tunnelling work for London Olympic Park	Out of Service
(11)	Progres	Decauville	0-4-0T	1915	20 August 2005	917	Greyish White	Under restoration	Stored
(11)	Number 29	Wingrove & Rogers, Liverpool	Battery 0-4-0	1939	2003	1416	Yellow	Required a JCB to clear it out of 20 years of vegetation.	In pieces
L&WR 12	Clayton	Clayton	4wDM	1978	August 1994	1819B	Green	Built for Stock, Sold to NCB Wearmouth	In Service
(21)	Moeyse	4wDM	1941	Black	No longer part of railway fleet	Stored Offsite

Rolling stock

The railway maintains four air-braked coaches for use on its passenger trains. Three of the coaches are mounted on ex-peat wagon underframes, the fourth is mounted on the chassis of a former Simplex locomotive.

There are many wagons around the railway including the ubiquitous Hudson skip wagons and examples from RNAD.

References

1. ^{{cite news|title='Replacement' train offer as road shuts|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-36702107|work=BBC News|date=4 July 2016}}

{{cite book| author=Thomas, Cliff|title=The Narrow Gauge in Britain & Ireland| publisher=Atlantic Publishers| year=2002|isbn=1-902827-05-8}}
{{cite book| author=Keggans, Sandie|title=Transporting the Lead|publisher= Wanlockhead Museum Trust|year=2004|isbn=0-9530645-3-0}}

External links

The Railway website
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeJKwkRJaFk Video and commentary on the Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway.]

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