The Industrial Railway Society was founded in the
United Kingdom
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in 1949 as the "Birmingham Locomotive Club – Industrial Locomotive Information Section".
It is devoted to the study of all aspects, and all gauges, of privately owned
industrial railway
An industrial railway is a type of railway (usually private) that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics, or military site. In regions of the world influenced by British ra ...
s and
locomotive
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the Power (physics), motive power for a train. If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is usually rather referred to as a multiple unit, Motor coach (rail), motor ...
s, both in the UK and overseas.
Examples include railways at
collieries
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, opencast coal pits, steel works, gas works, peat bogs,
Ministry of Defence depots, engineering works, docks, electric power stations; and locomotives powered by steam, diesel, petrol, battery, and electricity.
The society has published many handbooks on industrial railways and their locomotives and, for members, issues two regular magazines: ''
The Industrial Railway Record
The Industrial Railway Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1949 as the "Birmingham Locomotive Club – Industrial Locomotive Information Section".
It is devoted to the study of all aspects, and all gauges, of privately owned industrial ...
'' (giving historical information) and the ''Bulletin'' (giving current information).
References
External links
Industrial Railway Society website
Railway societies
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