Peat Extraction
| Name | Opened | Closed | Gauge | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country Kitchen Foods Lindow Moss railway | ? | after 1987 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Wilmslow, England | Peat moss tramway using diesel locomotives. |
| Cumberland Moss Litter railway | after 1979 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Wigton, England | Extremely lightly laid temporary lines for peat extraction | |
| Eden Park Nurseries | 1987 | ? | 2 ft (610 mm) | Wark Forest, England | A relatively new narrow gauge industrial railway. |
| Haversham House Farm railway | ? | ? | 2 ft (610 mm) | Lancaster, England | Turf farm railway |
| Joseph Metcalf Ltd. | ? | 1999 ? | 2 ft (610 mm) | Irlam, England | Lightly laid peat tramway using modern diesel locomotives. |
| L&P Ltd. Creca Moss | ? | Present? | 2 ft (610 mm) | Annan, Scotland | Peat extraction line |
| L&P Ltd. Letham Moss | ? | Present ? | 2 ft (610 mm) | Airth, Scotland | Peat extraction line |
| L&P Ltd. Nutberry Works | ? | Present ? | 2 ft (610 mm) | Eastriggs, Scotland | Peat extraction line near Gretna Green. |
| Moodiesburn Peat Works railway | ? | ? | 2 ft (610 mm) | Glenboig, Scotland | Locomotive worked line a few hundred yards long |
| Richardson's Peat Work railway | ? | after 1979 | 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) | Longtown, England | Peat tramway in Cumbria. |
| Fisons Ltd. Cumbria Peat Works | after 1979 | after 1987 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Kirkbridge, England | Locomotive-worked peat railway. |
| Fisons Ltd. Eclipse Peat Works | 1922 | after 1979 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Meare, England | Locomotive-worked peat railway. |
| Fisons Ltd. Hatfield Peat Works | 1890s | 2006 | 3 ft (914 mm) | Hatfield, England | Some 8 miles (13 km) of permanent track prior to closure. |
| Fisons Ltd. Swinefleet Peat Works | 1890s | 2002 | 3 ft (914 mm) | Goole, England | Peat works railway employing at least 11 internal combustion locomotives. Two new Schoma locomotives delivered in 1989 |
| Solway Moss railway | ? | after 1987 | 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) | Cumbria, England | Peat tramway with at least 10 4wDM locomotives on site in 1987 |
| George Watson & Sons Middlemuir peat railway | approx. 1949 | 1989 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Fraserburgh, Scotland | Peat tramway with three Lister locomotives in 1989 |
| White Moss Peat Co. Ltd. Simonswood Moss | after 1979 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Kirkby, England | Locomotive-worked line | |
| White Moss Peat Co. Ltd. White Moss Works railway | 1958 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Alsager, England | Very lightweight line of less than 1 mile length; worked using Lister locomotives | |
| William Sinclair Horticultural Auchencorth Moss railway | ? | ? | 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) | Leadburn, Scotland | |
| William Sinclair Horticultural Bolton Fell railway | ? | Present | 2 ft (610 mm) | Hethersgill, England | Lightly laid, locomotive worked peat extraction line. |
| William Sinclair Horticultural Cladence Moss railway | 1998 | Present | 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) | East Kilbride, Scotland | Lightly laid, locomotive worked peat extraction line. |
| William Sinclair Horticultural Ryflat Moss railway | late 1990s | Present ? | 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) | Strathclyde, Scotland | |
| William Sinclair Horticultural Springfield Moss railway | ? | ? | 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) | Leadburn, Scotland | |
| Wilmslow Peat Farm railway | before 1979 | 2000 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Wilmslow, England | Locomotive-worked peat tramway near Manchester |
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