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Bekonscot Light Railway

The Bekonscot Light Railway is a 184mm gauge railway at the famous Bekonscot model village in Beaconsfield. The railway was opened in 2001, running along the perimeter of the model village site, to give passenger rides. The railway was extended a few years later and has proved very popular carrying over 85, 000 passengers a year.
Doodargh begins a journey around the complicated layout


The railway has three battery-electric locomotives. Two were built in-house at the Bekonscot workshops and the third by Maxitrak. One of them, Number 3, is a 4w-4w railcar which passengers sit astride [1]. The railway have also added two petrol hydraulics to their fleet plus often have visiting locomotives.
A sideways view of Doodargh

Railcar number 3

Yard view



[1] Royston Morris, Miniature Railway Locomotives and Rolling Stock (Amberley, 2018) p. 17