List of heritage railways


This list of heritage railways includes heritage railways sorted by country, state, or region. A heritage railway is a preserved or tourist railroad which is run as a tourist attraction, is usually but not always run by volunteers, and often seeks to re-create railway scenes of the past.

Europe

Austria

H Heritage rail operator |
N Narrow gauge railway |
S Standard gauge railway
DJK: Dansk Jernbane-Klub. Several heritage railways and operators are members of DJK

Finland

Greece

Romania

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Isle of Man

Channel Islands

Canada

United States

Mexico

Argentina

Mainland China

South Africa

Note that most of the heritage railway operators in South Africa have their own depots where locomotives and coaches are kept and serviced, but run on state-owned railways.
  • Atlantic Rail – Now defunct. Formally ran day trips from Cape Town to Simonstown using steam locomotives and heritage coaching stock
  • Friends of the Rail – day trips from Hermanstad using steam locomotives and heritage coaching stock
  • Outeniqua Choo Tjoe – A heritage railway that has not operated since August 2006.
  • Patons Country Narrow Gauge Railway – a two-foot narrow-gauge heritage railway in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, from Ixopo to Umzimkhulu
  • Reefsteamers – day trips from Johannesburg to Magaliesburg.
  • Rovos Rail – up-market railtours
  • The Sandstone Heritage Trust – private railway operating 2-foot gauge steam locomotives
  • Umgeni Steam Railway – Kloof to Inchanga, near Durban

    Tunisia

  • Lézard rouge

    Australia

Australia

New Zealand