The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, a gauge railway in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, is laid on the trackbed of the former Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch of the Caledonian Railway which led off the main line between Carlisle and Glasgow at Elvanfoot.

Overview

The "preserved" section runs from Leadhills for about 1 km towards Wanlockhead and is the highest adhesion railway in the UK. Trains are currently diesel worked with the locomotive propelling the train up hill away from Leadhills.

The original railway closed in the late 1930s shortly after the mines in Wanlockhead had closed.

The railway currently stops at the border of South Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway.

Locomotives

Number	Name	Builder	Type	Date	Works number	Notes
2	Elvan	Motor Rail	4wDM	1955	9792	Built for the London Brick Company , King’s Dyke Works, Whittlesea.
4	Luce	Ruston and Hornsby	4wDM	1966	7002/0467/6	Built for contractors Edmund Nuttall Ltd, Leith. Acquired 1987
5	Little Clyde	Ruston and Hornsby	4wDM	1966	7002/0467/2	Built for contractors Edmund Nuttall Ltd, Leith. Acquired 1987
6	Clyde	Hunslet	4wDM	1975	6347	Built for National Coal Board, Eppleton Collery. Acquired 1990
8	Nith	Hudswell Clarke	4wDMF	1956	DM1002	Built for the National Coal Board, Waterloo Main Colliery. Acquired 1993
9	Charlotte	Orenstein & Koppel	0-4-0WT	1913	6335	Acquired 1994

References

• Thomas, Cliff (2002). The Narrow Gauge in Britain & Ireland. Atlantic Publishers. ISBN 1-902827-05-8.

See also

• British narrow gauge railways

External links

• The Railway website