Are you a railway buff?

'Buff' is another word for enthusiast or fan. A railway buff is a person who is very interested in trains and railways and who knows a lot about them. Anyone who is a railway buff would be keen to visit the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. Its engines and carriages are one third the normal size. But it is not a toy railway. Hundreds of school children from Dymchurch use the train to go to school at New Romney throughout the year.

It was opened in 1927, and runs for 13.5 miles (22.5 km.) across Romney Marsh from Hythe to Dungeness - it is the longest miniature railway in the world. There are eleven steam locomotives and one diesel, over sixty coaches, fully equipped stations, and the trains pass at speed on the double track so that passengers get a good impression of what steam travel was like. It is privately owned, but there is a supporters' organization whose members (they are all railway buffs!) provide financial support and voluntary labour.

Susan Sheerin, Jonathan Seath, Gillian White: Spotlight on Britain; Oxford University Press, 1985, page 36

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