Saundersfoot Railway

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Saundersfoot Railway
Locale	Wales
Dates of operation	1829 – 1939
Successor line	abandoned
Track gauge	4 ft (1219 mm)
Headquarters	Saundersfoot

The Saundersfoot Railway was an industrial narrow gauge railway built in 1829 to carry coal from mines around Reynalton (Wales) to the harbour at Saundersfoot on the Pembrokeshire coast.

[edit] History

The Saudersfoot Railway and Harbour Company was created in 1828 to build a harbour at Saundersfoot and a railway connecting it to the collieries around Reynalton.

[edit] Locomotives

Name	Builder	Type	Date	Works number	Notes
Rosalind	Manning Wardle	0-4-0ST	1874	476
Bulldog	Kerr Stuart	0-4-0ST	1915	2040	Purchased from the Reynalton Colliery railway in 1921

[edit] References

Price, M.R.C. (1963). The Saundersfoot Railway. The Oakwood Press.