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Lankelz Railway

miniature railway in Luxembourg

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ6487196 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Lankelz Railway in Esch-sur-Alzette, south-eastern Luxembourg, is a miniature railway on a scale of one third normal size (7+1⁄4 in (184 mm) gauge). The railway operates on Sunday afternoons and public holidays from May to mid-October.

Constructed in 1997, the narrow-gauge tracks, complete with bridges, tunnels and a station, are arranged in two sections; one is 1,000 metres long, the other 350 metres. There is one steam locomotive, two diesel engines and a tram. Trips can be made by steam train or diesel train.

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“Lankelz Railway” enters the record as miniature railway in Luxembourg. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lankelz, Railway and miniature can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lankelz, Railway and miniature.
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“Lankelz Railway” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lankelz, Railway and miniature provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6487196. Authority coordinates are 49.510, 6.979. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lankelz Railway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.