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  2. Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works - Wikipedia

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    Wagon for North Mount Lyell Copper Company, built 1898. The Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works supplied carriages to a number of notable railways around the world, including the Exeter Tramways in 1892, the City and South London Railway in 1894, the Ffestiniog Railway in 1896 (indirectly - removed from Lynton and Barnstaple post FR revival), the Tralee and Dingle Railway and the Lynton and ...

  3. Bristol Tramways - Wikipedia

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    A scale model of an 1899 Bristol electric tram. Note that the driver stood in the open. The first trams in Bristol (horse-drawn, with a maximum speed of 6 miles per hour) were introduced in 1875. [1] Electric trams were introduced in 1895, the first city to do so in the United Kingdom. At the system's peak there were 17 routes and 237 tramcars ...

  4. Highgate Hill Cable Tramway - Wikipedia

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    The initial rolling stock was dummy grip cars, pulling trailers which could go on to other lines pulled by horses. After problems with the connection between the cars and the trailers the Company was required to use single unit cars. These cars, in dark blue and cream livery, were double deck, carrying 26 passengers inside and 28 on the roof ...

  5. York Tramways Company - Wikipedia

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    A new company, the City of York Tramways Company was formed in 1886. It was a subsidiary of the Imperial Tramways Company based in Bristol. It acquired the assets of the York Tramways Company for £14,500 (equivalent to £1,995,136 in 2023). [2] By 1891 the company operated 10 tramcars with a stable of 37 horses.

  6. Wagonway - Wikipedia

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    A replica of a "Little Eaton Tramway" wagon, the tracks are plateways A later system involved L-shaped iron rails or plates , each 3 ft (914 mm) long and 4 in (102 mm) wide, having on the inner side an upright ledge or flange, 3 in (76 mm) high at the centre and tapering to 2 in (51 mm) at the ends, for the purpose of keeping the flat wheels on ...

  7. Bath Tramways - Wikipedia

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    In 1936 the company was taken over by the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company who began to replace the trams with their buses. The Newton St Loe line closed in 1938 with the rest closing in May the following year. One of the original horse-drawn tramcars has been preserved, and is now at the Ipswich Transport Museum. It was built by Starbuck ...

  8. List of rolling stock items in the UK National Collection

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    Horse-drawn wagon c.1840-45 York [202] 1995-7001 Dandy cart c.1845 design York [203] 1975–7060 GNR: 112 Four-wheel hand crane Doncaster, GNR 1848 Shildon [204] 1978–7120 Seaham Harbour 31 Chaldron wagon c.1865-70 Shildon [205] 1975–7055 NER: 512 Four-wheel oil tank wagon Darlington Wagon & Engineering Co. 1889 Shildon [206] 1975–7045 ...

  9. Southport Corporation Tramways - Wikipedia

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    In 1896, Southport Corporation purchased the Birkdale and Southport Tramways Company which had operated horse-drawn tramways since 1873. The tracks within its boundary was also purchased, with that in Birkdale being purchased by that Council In 1899 Southport Corporation obtained permission to electrify and extend the tramways within its ...

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