Britains Great Little Railways is a company, created in 1994, to provide an umbrella organisation for the owners and operators of the miniature

Ridable miniature railway

A ridable miniature railway is a ground-level, large scale model railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are models of full-sized railway locomotives .-Overview:Typically they have a rail track gauge between and , though both larger and...

 and narrow gauge

Narrow gauge

A narrow gauge railway is a railway that has a track gauge narrower than the of standard gauge railways. Most existing narrow gauge railways have gauges of between and .- Overview :...

 railways in Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

. Its members include purely commercial operators and heritage railways with long histories, such as the Rhyl Miniature Railway

Rhyl Miniature Railway

The Rhyl Miniature Railway is a gauge miniature railway line located in Rhyl on the North Wales Coast. The line runs in a circle around a boating lake near the promenade, to the west of the town centre...

 which has just celebrated its centenary.

Administration

The company is run on a not for profit basis with 4 directors who are volunteers chosen from and elected by the members. The stated aim of the company is to share knowledge and information and to improve the safety of the members railways. It is a corporate member of the Heritage Railway Association

Heritage Railway Association

The Heritage Railways Association is an umbrella organisation representing the majority of the heritage and tourist railways, railway museums, steam centres and railway preservation groups in the UK and Ireland....

.

Meetings

Two members meetings are held each year in March and October at a member railway. The company publishes posters, leaflets an e magazine and a website about its member railways. In 2011 there are over 30 member railways spread across the UK.

Members

• Bekonscot Light Railway
• Beer Heights Light Railway
  Beer Heights Light Railway
  The Beer Heights Light Railway operates of minimum gauge track at Beer, Devon, England. It is part of Pecorama, an exhibition owned by Peco....
  
  
• Bentley Miniature Railway
• Bolebroke Castle Miniature Railway
  Bolebroke Castle Miniature Railway
  The Bolebroke Castle Miniature Railway or Bolebroke Castle and Lakes Railway is a 7¼ inch railway that runs within the grounds of Bolebroke Castle...
  
  
• Bickington Steam Railway
  Bickington Steam Railway
  Located at Trago Mills Regional Shopping Center, Newton Abbot, the Minimum gauge Bickington Steam Railway was opened in 1988, using equipment recovered from the Suffolk Wildlife Park, which itself was taken from Rudyard Lake. It was built by Brian Nicholson, the headmaster of Waterhouses School in...
  
  
• Brookside Miniature Railway
• Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway
  Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway
  Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway is a railway built in 1948 in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire operating between Cleethorpes Leisure Centre and behind Pleasure Island/buck beck. It was originally built to a slightly smaller gauge.-History:...
  
  
• Dragon Miniature Railway
• East Herts Miniature Railway
• Eastleigh Lakeside Steam Railway
• Evesham Vale Light Railway
  Evesham Vale Light Railway
  The Evesham Vale Light Railway operates in Evesham Country Park in Worcestershire, England, where it opened in August 2002.Constructed at gauge, the line runs for over a mile through the park, including a lengthy section through the fruit orchards...
  
  
• Exbury Gardens Steam Railway
• Fairbourne Miniature Railway
• Fancott Miniature Railway
  Fancott Miniature Railway
  -About:The Fancott Miniature Railway is a 7¼ inch railway located in the gardens of The Fancott Pub in Fancott , Bedfordshire, England. The track is laid in an oval with a triangular junction giving access to the station and with a separate steaming bay inside the oval. The FMR is part of...
  
  
• Grosvenor Park Miniature Railway
• Lappa Valley Railway
• Laxey Mines Railway
• Moors Valley Railway
  Moors valley railway
  The Moors Valley Railway is a 7 1/4 inch narrow gauge passenger railway, in the Moors Valley Country Park at Ashley Heath, Dorset, England near Ringwood in Hampshire. There are 17 steam engines and 2 diesel engines. The railway is fully signalled, with two signal boxes, one in a Great Western...
  
  
• Mortocombe Railway
• Perrygrove Railway
  Perrygrove Railway
  The Perrygrove Railway is a minimum gauge railway of gauge. It is a private heritage railway at Perrygrove Farm in the Royal Forest of Dean near Coleford, Gloucestershire, England...
  
  
• North Bay Railway
• Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
  Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
  The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway is a gauge light railway in Kent, England. The line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St...
  
  
• Rhyl Miniature Railway
  Rhyl Miniature Railway
  The Rhyl Miniature Railway is a gauge miniature railway line located in Rhyl on the North Wales Coast. The line runs in a circle around a boating lake near the promenade, to the west of the town centre...
  
  
• Rudyard Lake Steam Railway
  Rudyard Lake Steam Railway
  The Rudyard Lake Steam Railway is a minimum gauge railway and the third railway of any gauge to run along the side of Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire. The railway runs for on the track bed of an old standard gauge North Staffordshire Railway line. After the NSR line closed down, a small narrow gauge...
  
  
• Sherwood Forest Railway
  Sherwood Forest Railway
  The Sherwood Forest Railway , sometimes known in advertising as the Sherwood Forest Steam Railway, is a gauge light railway running alone after the Sherwood Forest Farm Park in Nottinghamshire, England, closed it's doors to the public....
  
  
• Shibden Miniature Railway
• South Downs Light Railway
  South Downs Light Railway
  The South Downs Light Railway is a gauge railway at Pulborough in West Sussex, England. The line operates around the grounds of a garden centre....
  
  
• Stanstead Park Light Railway
• Strawberry Line Miniature Railway
• Swanley New Barn Railway
  Swanley New Barn Railway
  The Swanley New Barn Railway is a gauge railway located in Swanley Park, Swanley, Kent, United Kingdom. It has eight steam locomotives, with five more currently being built on site. In addition to this it also has ten diesel locomotives...
  
  
• Welsh Highland Heritage Railway
• Weston Miniature Railway