The Eaton Hall Railway was an early 15 in (381 mm) gauge narrow gauge estate railway built in 1896 at Eaton Hall in Cheshire.
It was built for the Duke of Westminster by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood, who had pioneered the fifteen inch (381 mm) gauge with his Duffield Bank Railway, and connected the hall to the GWR station sidings at Balderton on their Shrewsbury to Chester Line, some 3 miles (4.8 km) away.
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