The smallest railway (25 photos) Bashny.Net

The smallest of the existing narrow-gauge road today is the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway. Romney is in England, more precisely in the county of Kent on the southeast coast of the island. Track width of domestic railways 1524 mm, 1435 mm European, narrow-gauge roads mostly 750 mm, width of railway track Romney 381 mm. Old friends Captain J.E.P. Hove and Count Louis Zborowski long dreamed to build your own railroad and built it. Rather it will finish Hove since Zborowski, known at the time the driver was killed in a car crash. July 16, 1927 Romney opened. I propose to sit down at the station Hit and virtual ride on this very narrow-gauge railway.



Initially Romney was 13 kilometers in length, from New Romney Hythe, but then increased Hove way for another 9 kilometers. Now the length of the railroad tracks Romney is 22 kilometers. Romney Hythe and connects the villages Dandeness. The railway is not only very popular among tourists, but is part of the public transport system. For example, it is used on a daily basis children to get to school in New Romney.



Needless to say, that keeps the railway mainly due to tourists, of which there are always plenty. You can see for yourself, here is something to see, to feel that, and what a ride. Who has not dreamed at least for a little bit back to my childhood and take a ride on the little train as an attraction in the park.



However, not all Romney so toy. During World War II, the British government requisitioned the railway and use it to protect the coast, as laid Romka just a few hundred meters from the beach. There was even built the world's smallest armored train.