Tag:railway=preserved
 railway =
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Historical railway. Usually a tourist attraction. 
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A railway running historic trains, usually a tourist attraction. They are usually privately owned, preserved and run for railway heritage and/or profit, not necessarily providing a meaningful public transportation service.
See 
Heritage railway.
Tags used in combination
service=*– siding, yard and spur tracksusage=tourism(sometimes tracks can be tagged withusage=branch/main!)electrified=rail/contact_line– electrificationgauge=1435– gauge
Alternative tags
railway= is not liked by the people who maintain "OpenRailwayMap" (see protocol of second OpenRailwayMap meeting). This tag collides with other railway=* tags. For example, it is not possible to tag a preserved railway line as a narrow gauge line (railway=narrow_gauge) or funicular (railway=funicular). That's why they suggest to use railway:preserved=yes instead, since early 2015
As of mid-2021, railway:preserved=* is more popular than railway= and is still increasing, while the latter tag is decreasing.
Evolution-graphs of the both tagging schemes: https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/railway/preserved&***/railway:preserved/yes
A proposal to deprecate railway= was cancelled, because no consensus could be reached on how a viable alternative would look (Apart from railway:preserved=* still being used as a de-facto alternative).
Since version 5.9.0, the OSM Carto style does not render the tag railway=, and only railway:preserved=yes is rendered for the specific types of railway=* values.[1]
Examples
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train on Taurach Railway in Austria -
Talyllyn Railway in Wales -
steam-hauled train of Landeseisenbahn Lippe (Germany)
(Older tag "preserved_rail" was deprecated and it was changed to "preserved" as "rail" is redundant).