Dunstable North railway station Dunstable North railway station Dunstable North was a railway station on the London and North Western Railway's branch line from Leighton Buzzard which served Dunstable in Bedfordshire from 1848 to 1967. Originally the terminus of the London and North Western Railway's branch line from Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable became the point where the line met with the Great Northern's branch line from Luton in 1858. The station became the hub of a number of sidings connecting a variety of concerns to the line, including Waterlows, Bedfordshire County Council, Associated Portland Cement, Dunstable gasworks and a coal yard operated by the Great
Doll (locomotive) and "Doll" is gauge with a long fixed wheelbase, and was unsuitable for the line. The loco was sold to Henry Williams, who in turn sold her to the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway in 1969. "Doll" was temporarily withdrawn from service at the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway in 19??. at which point she received a new all welded boiler from Bennett Boiler and a full bottom end overhaul at Alan Keef Ltd. The valve gear was fitted with new eccentrics and repinned and bushed to remove lost motion which had developed. It appears that at some point in the