Industrial Railway Society, the

The Industrial Railway Society was founded in 1949 as the Birmingham Locomotive Club - Industrial Locomotive Information Section. The Society is the leading organization in the United Kingdom devoted to the study of all aspects, and all gauges, of privately owned industrial railways and locomotives, both at home and overseas. Collieries, opencast coal pits, steel works, gas works, peat bogs, Ministry of Defence depots, engineering works, docks, electric power stations, etc., are all covered by the Society. Also details of various railway preservation groups and their locomotives, etc.

Steam, diesel, petrol (gas), battery, and electric locomotives.
Standard gauge. Narrow gauge.
Tunneling locos. Ex-British Rail locos. Underground locos.

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