Lord mayor at Abbeydale Miniature Railway

The Abbeydale miniature railway is a railway run by the Sheffield & District Society of Model & Experimental Engineers Ltd. in

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in south-west

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, England. The railway has two sections: a dual gauge ground level section with gauges of and . There is also a smaller multigauge raised section that has gauges of , and . The society owns several locomotives with a tinkerbell type steam locomotive named 'Septimus' and a diesel locomotive named 'Edward' on the ground level. There are also two electric locomotives named 'Merlin' and 'Vulcan' also owned by the society for use on the raised track. The society also runs a garden railway that operates trains on and gauge track this is known as the 'Ecclesall Woods Light Railway'.

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