Useful links

Here are some links to other websites you may find useful. Just click on the blue titles to go through--and don’t forget to click on “Back” afterwards!

If you have any other suggestions for appropriate links, preferably on a reciprocal basis, please email us with details.

General information
Experience Bedfordshire: If all you know of Bedfordshire is Toddington Services, then take a look at this new site. You may be pleasantly surprised!

24 Hour Museum: News and information about Britain’s lively museum scene.

Days Out UK: Online version of one of the leading tourist attractions handbooks.

Familyrapp.com: A comprehensive one-stop reference point for parents.

East of England: Although within walking distance of its western boundary, we are officially part of the East of England region. This official tourism website covers the surprising variety of things to see and do between Leighton Buzzard and the Norfolk coast.

Holiday Cottages: Online cottage booking, plus tourism information.

Kingswood House: Bed-and-breakfast accommodation within walking distance of Page’s Park station.

Leighton-Linslade Town Council: Find out about the Leighton Buzzard area, from the town’s official website.

Local News: Video news and events in and around Bedfordshire, brought to you on your PC.

Somewhere To Go; UK Attractions; What To Do with The Kids: Online guides to places to visit in Britain.

Visit Britain: Britain’s official tourism website, especially useful if you are visiting from abroad.

Vale-Web: A comprehensive guide to Aylesbury & the Vale and surrounding towns.

Railway sites
Ashover Light Railway Society: Like our own line, the Ashover was built from 2ft gauge war-surplus materials and equipment, but sadly closed in 1950. Now there is a scheme to revive the most picturesque section in rural Derbyshire.

Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers: The website for the Bedfordshire Area Group, who are regular exhibitors at our model railway events.

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre: Our nearest heritage-railway neighbour, with an interesting standard-gauge collection and an extensive miniature line.

Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway: Another standard-gauge heritage railway within easy reach, reviving a Great Western branch line on the edge of the Chiltern Hills.

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society: The British-based group for those who follow the fortunes of this fantastic 2ft (610mm) gauge railway in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Froissy-Cappy-Dompierre: Our twin railway. One of the closest French narrow-gauge operations to the Channel ports, and the last survivor of the 600mm gauge lines of the World War 1 battlefields--so sharing some history with the Leighton Buzzard Railway. Has an English translation.

Golden Valley Light Railway: The 2ft (610mm) gauge railway at the standard-gauge Midland Railway Centre, Derbyshire.

Greensand Railway Museum Trust: Our associated charity, responsible for restoring WDLR778, the World War One 4-6-0T by Baldwin, with the help of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and many generous individuals and companies.

Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society: The group that owns steam locomotives “Wendy” and “Cloister”--both past visitors to Leighton Buzzard--and operates the short line at Kew Bridge Museum, London.

London Midland: The new franchise operator, which has now taken over the passenger services through Leighton Buzzard’s main-line station. We look forward to the promised improvements in services from the Midlands and North-West.

Lynton & Barnstaple Railway: The “other” LBR is one of England’s lost railway treasures, a 600mm gauge line which ran through glorious North Devon scenery, but closed in the 1930s. Read all about the reopening of the first short stretch, and their big plans for the future.

Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways: Specialist website set up by individual enthusiasts, with useful information and links.

Narrow Gauge Railway Society: Britain’s leading society for those interested in the narrow gauge. Also owners of a couple of locomotives.

National Railway Museum: All about the British national railway historical collection, based at York, from which our World War 1 Simplex is on loan.

Talyllyn Railway: This is the line that started the railway preservation movement, back in 1951. Still going strong.

UK Heritage Railways: Everything you ever wanted to know about Britain’s heritage railway scene, with lots of links to individual websites.

Welsh Highland Railway: A bold project to rebuild the narrow gauge through the Snowdon mountains, currently halfway to its final destination. Provides links to the site of its neighbour and associate, the fantastic Ffestiniog Railway.

The Leighton Buzzard Railway offers these links in good faith, but accepts no liability for their operation or content.

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