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railway is allowed to cross the street on 

 the level; indeed it is often allowed to run 

 along a sufficiently wide street. But the 

 miniature system with which we are dealing 

 did not want to be considered in that way; 

 it was prepared to lay its track in the 

 orthodox manner, with double track, proper 

 stations and an up-to-date signalling 

 system. 



The headquarters of the tiny line are at 

 New Romney, where there is not only a 

 fine station, and several sidings, but a 

 big workshop where the engine can not 

 only be repaired but new members of the 

 stud can be built. There are carriage and 

 wagon works too in fact a miniature 

 Swindon. Not content with making its 

 own rolling stock the works turned out a 

 couple of miniature locomotives for an 

 even smaller gauge 12 inches. These 

 were sent by their purchasers, the Canadian 

 Pacific Co., to the exhibition at Philadelphia. 



The line started at Romney, just opposite 

 to the station of the Southern Railway 

 Co.'s Lydd-Appledore branch. Thence it 



