Some industrial narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man were primarily built to serve quarrying, mining, and similar industries. Some of these narrow-gauge railways offered passenger services for employees or workmen, but they did not run public passenger trains. They are listed by the primary industry they served.
Cement works
Many of the cement works and their associated chalk pits had narrow gauge railways, particularly those in the South East of England. The Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. (APCM, later Blue Circle Industries, and Lafarge) was the major producer of cement in the United Kingdom in the second half of the twentieth century and many of their plants used railways.
NameOpenedClosedGaugeLocationNotesAPCM Cliffe Works1934 ?1959Cliffe-at-Hoo, EnglandExtensive diesel-hauled chalk pit railway.APCM Bevans Works?after 1962Northfleet, EnglandShort line operating on a riverside wharfAPCM Harbury Works?after 1961Harbury, EnglandQuarry line worked with a rare Fowler 2-4-0 diesel locomotiveAPCM Holborough Works19231969Snodland, EnglandSteam- and diesel- hauled railway at the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd's cement plant at Holborough.APCM Sittingbourne Brickworksbefore 1898after 1963Sittingbourne, EnglandInternal brickworks railwayAPCM Rodmell Worksbefore 19101975Beddingham, EnglandShort line serving a cement worksAPCM Sittingbourne Works?1971 Sittingbourne, EnglandCement works line with the last narrow gauge steam locomotive in that industry.APCM Kent Works18771927Greenhithe, EnglandSteam-hauled railway at the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd's cement plant at Greenhithe.APCM Sundon Works?1974Luton, EnglandCement works line.British Standard Cement Works19121932Rainham, EnglandNotable as the only industrial line in Britain to use an ex-WDLR Baldwin locomotive.Broom Bank19331962Murston, EnglandSteam hauled cement works and clay pit lineChinnor Cement & Lime1962Chinnor, EnglandLocomotive and cable worked lines serving the chalk quarry and washmills.Smeed Dean & Co.19001949 Murston, EnglandChalk pit lineFrancis & Co.18711920 Cliffe, EnglandSteam-worked chalk quarry railwayGillingham Portland Cement Co.1870s?1910Gillingham, EnglandEarly cement works lineI. C. Johnson & Co.before 18721928Greenhithe, EnglandInternal steam hauled railway, replaced by a standard gauge line.J. B. White & Bros - Swanscombe Works18251929Swanscombe, EnglandSteam locomotive worked from 1875 onwards. Internal works line with rare outside flanged rolling stockKnight, Bevan & Sturge1873 ?1928Northfleet, EnglandExtensive chalk quarry system, eventually superseded by a standard gauge lineQueenborough Cement Works18961930?unknownQueenborough, EnglandLine worked by two Aveling and Porter steam locomotivesRPCM Barrington Cement Worksby 1979Barrington, EnglandShort locomotive-worked lineRPCM Rochester Works?1952Halling, EnglandExtensive cement works railwayRPCM Southam Works?1956Southam, EnglandSteam locomotive worked railwayTolhurst & Sons1860sbefore 1948Gravesend, EnglandLarge internal chalk quarry system
Lime works
NameOpenedClosedGaugeLocationNotesBarn Hill Quarry railway19281938Chipping Sodbury, England long locomotive worked line; locomotive transferred to Penlee Quarry railway in 1947Beswick's Limeworks railwayBefore 1925?Hindlow, EnglandInternal tramways that used two unusual Crossley Brothers 25 hp locomotives supplied in 1925Black Rock Quarrybefore 19191949Portishead, EnglandTramway connecting the Black Rock and Nightingale quarries with the Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway. Used two Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 steam locomotives, later replaced with Motor Rail Simplex internal combustion locomotives.British Quarrying Co Ltd Allington Quarry railway19281956?Maidstone, EnglandLocomotive worked internal quarry systemBritish Quarrying Co Ltd Borough Green Quarry railwaybefore 19211956Borough Green, EnglandInternal quarry system for "Kentish Ragstone". Originally horse worked, Simplex locomotive introduced in 1921Brockham Lime Works1870s (?)1936Dorking, EnglandLime pits and works railway, later home of the Brockham MuseumBuriton Lime Worksbefore 1897after 1936 and Buriton, EnglandDiesel locomotive worked railwayButserhill Lime Worksbefore 1932by 1945Butser Hill, EnglandConygar Quarry??Clevedon, EnglandShort tramway running along an embankment from the quarry to a siding on the Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway.Cauldon Low Quarrybefore 19061933Waterhouses, EnglandLimestone quarry with an internal steam-worked railway systemDorking Greystone Lime Co.18801954 and Betchworth, EnglandWell-known steam hauled internal limeworks line.Darnley Lime Works Tramway and Mineral Railwaybefore 1864early 1960sDarnley, East RenfrewshireTramway serving limestone and fire clay quarriesDunball Quarrybefore 19301954Dunball, EnglandSteam locomotive worked tramway connecting the Dunball quarry with the lime worksFlagstaff Quarry1941Anglesey, WalesInternal incline-worked quarry lineLittle Ormes Head Quarry tramway18891931Porth Dyniewyd, WalesInternal limestone quarry railway.Milton Quarryearly 1900s1966Weston-super-Mare, EnglandSmall limestone quarry with cable-hauled railwayOxstead Greystone Lime Co.before 19121971Oxstead, EnglandInternal railway of lime quarry and works.Parc-y-Meirch quarry railway19231958St. Asaph, WalesLocomotive-worked line connecting the limestone quarry with the standard gauge Kinmel Camp RailwayPeak Forest Tramway17941923 Chapel en le Frith, EnglandEarly tramway that was horse and chain hauled throughout its life.Whitehaven Quarry19321953Oswestry, WalesA series of rope-hauled inclines and steam locomotive worked tramways.
Brickworks