page_title: Narrow-gauge railways in Europe
section_title: Ireland
hierarchical_section_title: Narrow-gauge railways in Europe / Ireland
caption_attribution_description: This is a locomotive that worked in the Guinness brewery in the 1920s. It is a narrow gauge engine but it could be lifted onto a standard (full size) gauge wagon and operate on that gauge too. Taken at Amberley Working Museum, England.
context_page_description: Europe inherited a diversity of rail gauges. Extensive narrow-gauge railway networks exist in Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Eastern Europe.
context_section_description: Several 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge systems once existed in Ireland. In County Donegal an extensive network existed, with two companies operating from Derry – the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway (L&LSR) and the County Donegal Railways (CDRJC). Well known was the West Clare Railway – in County Clare, which saw diesel locomotion before closure. The Cavan & Leitrim Railway (C&LR) operated in what is now the border area of County Cavan and County Leitrim. Some smaller narrow-gauge routes also had existed in County Antrim and also County Cork – notably the Cork Blackrock & Passage Railway – had been removed.
  Apart from small heritage venues, the Irish narrow gauge today only survives in the bogs of the Midlands as part of Bord na Móna's extensive industrial network for transporting harvested peat to distribution centres or power plants.
caption: Guinness brewery locomotive
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