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The Valkenburg Narrow Gauge Museum
Not very far from where I live, at Valkenburg near Leiden, there is a delightful narrow gauge museum where a large collection of industrial narrow gauge locomotives and rolling stock is preserved. There are several working steam locomotives, and many more working diesel locos which work the two-mile railway every weekend from early May until the end of September. The railway is 70cm gauge, but there is a smaller collection of 90cm and 75cm gauge stock preserved inside the museum hall. The photos on this page were taken in 1999.
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Orenstein & Koppel 0-4-0T Sandra at the platform outside the museum. |
Two diesels, a peat wagon and a skip near the new turntable. |
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Inside the museum an old locomotive workshop has been set up for the public to view. |
Part of the static collection of locomotives, with the 90cm gauge exhibits behind. The first loco in line can be steamed, and the Ruston is a working loco as well. |
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A Ruston and a Simplex. The skip in front is of 50cm gauge. |
A train on its way, with the museum's large bogie carriage leading. This is the first large passenger vehicle they built a number of years ago, using industrial bogies. |
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At the far terminus, which is in the middle of fields, the small O&K runs round its train. |
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Coupling up… |
Pretty portrait. |
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Having passed the Museum station, in the curves near the far station. |
A view from the first carriage. |
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