How wide is it? Very Narrow Heatherslaw Narrow Gauge Railway. The station at Heatherslaw is built on the site of the old Ford and Etal sawmill, which had suffered a fire in the mid 1980’s, before being moved to a new site at Letham Hill. The site at Heatherslaw was cleared, new buildings, a turntable and station track work laid. The track bed was excavated and levelled by a contractor, with the ballast and track laid using a track gang made up of local labour who worked every weekend for six months to enable the railway to start running in the summer of 1989. The original track was 1.25 miles long and cut directly across the Letham Haugh to Etal village. In the winter of 2003-2004, the track was 'extended' to its present length of 2 miles following the course of the River Till around the outside of the Letham Haugh. The original stock of six coaches was increased to thirteen coaches.
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