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MINIATURE LOCOMOTIVES 



THERE have been many railways laid 

 down on the 15 inches gauge, but with 

 two exceptions, the Ravenglass and 

 Eskdale, and the Romney, Hythe and 

 Dymchurch, they have been very short 

 sections of line, mainly on the seashore 

 at some pleasure resort. Even the Raven- 

 glass and Eskdale was an adaption, as 

 originally that line was laid out on a con- 

 siderably wider gauge, closed down through 

 lack of business, and then reconstructed to 

 the i5~in. gauge, during the Great War, 

 because of the ore traffic which had revived. 



The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch 

 Railway, to give it its full and imposing 

 title, really sprang from the experience 

 gained upon the Cumberland line just 

 mentioned. Here was a stretch of rich 



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