What is Britain's shortest working standard gauge steam railway? David Staines reckons it's the 38-pace Great Western Railway Museum deep in the Forest of Dean.rnClose to the Welsh border, the Royal Forest of Dean is well and truly on the steam map. The Dean Forest Railway is one of the country's longest-established heritage lines and has recently fulfilled a long-held ambition to reopen to Parkend. There is also The Flour Mill near Bream repairing locomotives, whilst narrow-gauge aficionados are catered for by the 15-inch gauge Perrygrove Railway. Yet the forest has another claim to fame - what is quite possibly the shortest steam heritage railway in the country. It is in Coleford, a town billed as the hub of the forest.
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