Click here to view an illustrated article on the line in its industrial days, published in the Industrial Railway Record in 1966.
Visit the virtual museum of the Sands Of Time local history project
Download the words and music of “The Engine Boy”, a folk song about life on the Leighton Buzzard sand trains in the 1950s, written for the Sands Of Time project
The definitive history of the line, “The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway” by Sydney Leleux (Oakwood Press), is available from the Page’s Park station shop
Read our contribution to the BBC Radio series, “A History of the World in 100 Objects”