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A train on the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway, Bedfordshire

Leighton Buzzard Light Railway

The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway is a light railway running from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire. It operates on a narrow-gauge track at a gauge of two feet and is just under three miles long.

The line was built after the First World War to serve sand quarries north of the town, but in the late 1960s the quarries switched to road transport and the railway was taken over by volunteers, who now run the line as a heritage railway. (Read more)