Miniature Railway
The miniature railway at Hollycombe is set at 7ΒΌ inch gauge
- Route
The miniature railway starts at its station opposite the saw mill and begins with a climb up past some crossing gates and into a cutting it then reaches the top of the hill and bends round slightly to the left. The railway then runs with the bottom of the fairground on the left and the woodland gardens on the right. It then heads up into another cutting before doing a 360 degree loop round onto an embankment. On your left there is a pond. Then you meet with the outward line that heads back towards the station. the line then passes some bushes before you come back into view of the station. The line then runs parallel with a 5 inch gauge line and rounds back up a hill passing another pond and on the other side the engine shed and back into the 2 platform station.
- Engines
- Bob 0-4-2 Tinkerbell (currently the most used engine on the line)
- Pauline 0-4-0 Romulus
- Tess 0-4-0 Bagnall
- Jenniffer 0-4-0 vertical boiler engine
Read more about this topic: Hollycombe Steam Collection
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