The World's Smallest Railway.

The Romney, Hythe and Dynchurch Model Railway in Britain, described as the smallest public railway in the world, was opened by Earl Beauchamp on 16th July. This 15 inch gauge railway runs from Romney to Hythe. The engines (replicas of the Great Northern Pacific type) weigh approximately eight tons each.

Hauling twenty-five coaches, these miniature engines can attain a speed up to fifty miles an hour-which speed, whilst remarkable as indicating the efficiency of the engines is, however, not likely to be authorised on a 15 inch gauge railway. The promotors of the model railway are sanguine of the success of their enterprise for they anticipate an annual passenger traffic of 250,000.

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