GB Standard Gauge Preserved Railways
Area Railway Length (miles)
South East Bluebell Railway 11

East Kent Railway 2

Isle of Wight Steam Railway 5

Kent & East Sussex Railway 10 1/2

Mid-Hants Railway (The Watercress Line) 10

Spa Valley Railway 5



South West Avon Valley Railway 3

Bodmin & Wenford Railway 6 1/2

Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Co. 7

East Somerset Railway 2 1/2

South Devon Railway 7

Swanage Railway (The Purbeck Line) 6

Swindon & Cricklade Railway 2 1/4

West Somerset Railway 20



East Anglia Mid-Norfolk Railway 11

Nene Valley Railway 7 1/2

North Norfolk Railway 5 1/2



Home Counties Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway 3 1/2

Cholsey & Wallingford Railway 2 1/2

Epping Ongar Railway 6



Midlands Battlefield Line Railway 5

Chasewater Railway 2

Churnet Valley Railway 5 1/4

... also Cauldon Lowe Branch 10 1/2

Dean Forest Railway 4 1/2

Ecclesbourne Valley Railway 9

Foxfield Light Railway 5 1/2

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway 14

Great Central Railway 8

Midland Railway - Butterley 3 1/2

Northampton & Lamport Railway 2

Nottingham Heritage Railway 10

Peak Rail 4

Severn Valley Railway 16



North West East Lancashire Railway 12

Eden Valley Railway 2 1/4

Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway 3 1/2



North East Appelby Frodingham Railway 15

Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway 5

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway 5

North Tyneside Steam Railway 2

North Yorkshire Moors Railway 18

Tanfield Railway 3

Weardale Railway 18

Wensleydale Railway 22



Wales Gwili Railway 4

Llangollen Railway 10

Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway 3 1/2



Scotland Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway 5

Caledonian Railway 4

Keith & Dufftown Railway 11

Strathspey Steam Railway 10