Saltwood Miniature Railway was a 7 1⁄4 in (184 mm) gauge miniature railway which first opened in Sheffield, but subsequently relocated to Saltwood in Kent, England.
Until its final closure in 1987 the Saltwood Miniature Railway was an important part of community life in Saltwood. In wider terms it came to hold a historically important position as the oldest extant miniature railway in the world.
Read more about Saltwood Miniature Railway: Sheffield History, Saltwood History, Maid of Kent, Later History, Locomotives, See Also
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“Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.”
—Kenneth MacKenzie Clark, Baron of Saltwood (1903–1983)
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—Angela Carter (1940–1992)