Track

The track used to construct the Biggest Little Railway In The World was designed and manufactured by HMS Engineering (Hereford) Ltd. The company is owned and operated by Hadrian Spooner.

The track was manufactured from recycled PVC, which was extruded through two track shaped dies (one for straight sections and another for curved sections). The rails of the straight sections were then coated in rubber, to give the locomotive more grip when climbing steep gradients.

32 metric tonnes of PVC were used in the process and around 40,000 sections of track were made for the project. 11 articulated lorries were used to transport the track to Scotland, where transit vans were used to distribute it to different locations along the route.

Tim Gaunt, the series producer for Love Productions, described the idea to use extruded track as a "eureka" moment that made the whole project possible. Initial research revealed that one metre of 32mm track costs around £7, which would have made to project prohibitively expensive.