Tom Chance wrote: > Please vote on this proposal: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Miniature_railway > > Miniature railways have track gauges from 2.5" (64mm) to 7.25" (184mm) and > usually carry passengers. Passengers usually ride on top of the carriages not > in them. These are sometimes found in parks, public/private gardens and > tourist attractions. > > This differs greatly from narrow gauge which has a gauge on average of 3.5' > (1067mm) and passengers travel in carriages. > > This also differs from model railways which have a track width less than 2.5" > (64mm) and don't carry passengers.
I'd recommend synchronising this with wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_railway A lot of work has been done there between the various types of model/miniature railway, and that page has a fairly comprehensive list of 'ridable' miniature railways. Separate form narrow gauge which tend to be 'full size' -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
