Leighton Buzzard Light Railway | |
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A train on the LBLR being pulled by No. 11 PC Allen | |
Locale | England |
Terminus | Page's Park, Leighton Buzzard |
Commercial operations | |
Name | Leighton Buzzard Light Railway |
Built by | A.J. Arnold and G. Garside |
Original gauge | 2 ft (610 mm) |
Preserved operations | |
Operated by | Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway Society |
Stations | 2 |
Length | 3 miles (4.8 km) |
Preserved gauge | 2 ft (610 mm) |
Commercial history | |
Opened | 1919 |
Closed | 1969 |
Preservation history | |
1968 | First passenger trains run by preservation society |
The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway (LBLR) is a light railway in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, England. It operates on 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge track and is just under 3 miles (4.8 km) long. The line was built after the First World War to serve sand quarries north of the town. In the late 1960s the quarries switched to road transport and the railway was taken over by volunteers, who now run the line as a heritage railway.