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Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
The Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum is a small railway museum and metre gauge railway near Wellingborough in Northants, England.
== History ==
The area around Wellingborough was rich in iron ore. A quarry opened in Irchester around 1872 to extract the iron ore, which was mainly processed in the local iron works. Ironstone continued to be mined up until closure of the quarries in 1969.
In 1971 the Northamptonshire County Council opened the Irchester Country Park, which is located on the site of the former opencast ironstone quarries. The park has a network of walks, a visitors centre and a children's play area in an grass and woodland setting. Inside this park the museum was set-up in 1987 in the maintenance yard of the original ironstone railway. There are over 40 items of narrow gauge railway rolling stock including seven locomotives powered by steam and two diesel engines. A 250-metre long demonstration track with a gauge of has been laid in the park.〔(Steam Railway Lines. )〕 The original water tank was refurbished, complete with lettering.
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