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The station was located adjacent to the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway (SAMR) Stalybridge station that had opened in 1845, the terminus of that company's line from Guide Bridge. [a] [1] The AS&LJR amalgamated with the Manchester and Leeds Railway (M&LR), and others, to form the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR)) on 9 ...
The heavy and sturdy brakes served to slow down the wagon's wheels when the driver held the iron handle (or "lock patent") down, and the handles were also used to lock the brakes. The brakes were vital for managing the wagon through unsmooth roads. The tongue, or a long board in the wagon's front area, may be plated in iron then painted. [18]
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 ...
Stalybridge (/ ˌ s t eɪ l i ˈ b r ɪ dʒ /) is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 23,731 at the 2011 Census. [1] [2]Historically divided between Cheshire and Lancashire, it is 8 miles (12.9 km) east of Manchester and 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Glossop.
Copley is an area of the town of Stalybridge, [1] at the foot of the Pennines, 8 miles (13 km) east of Manchester in Greater Manchester, England. The area has a local secondary school, Copley Academy , which is attached to a local recreational centre and swimming pool.
Stalybridge station was built by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway (SAMR) and opened as the terminus of its Stalybridge branch on 23 December 1845. [1] There was an Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway (AS&LJR) (later the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR)) station adjacent that opened in 1846, the ...
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Carrbrook is a village east of Stalybridge, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire , the area still has many seventeenth and eighteenth-century buildings. Much of the late-nineteenth and the early-twentieth-century village was built during the industrial boom brought by the printworks.