heritage railway
Sign in to saveAlso known as heritage railroad, heritage and tourist railways
railway used for heritage/historical/tourism purposes
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Maunsel U class no. 1638 Bluebell railway (5).jpg
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- railway:preserved=yes
- Commons category
- Heritage rail transport
- topic's main category
- Category:Heritage railways
- different from
- railway museum
- sRGB color hex triplet
- 4B3621
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Encyclopedic overview
A tank engine takes on water through a water crane at the Bishops Lydeard station of the West Somerset Railway. Tourist train in transit on a viaduct of the Sassari–Tempio–Palau railway in Italy
A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) in the history of rail transport, but mainly serve tourism or rail enthusiasts and do not derive significant income from hauling freight or other purposes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “heritage railway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.