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Wagonways (also spelt Waggonways), also known as horse-drawn railways and horse-drawn railroad consisted of the horses, equipment and tracks used for hauling wagons, which preceded steam-powered railways. The terms plateway, tramway, dramway, were used. The advantage of wagonways was that far bigger loads could be transported with the same power.
Wollaton Hall near the Southern terminus of the Wollaton Wagonway. The Wollaton Wagonway (or Waggonway), built between October 1603 and 1604 in the East Midlands of England by Huntingdon Beaumont in partnership with Sir Percival Willoughby, [1] has sometimes been credited as the world's first overground wagonway and therefore regarded as a significant step in the development of railways.
Elgin Wagonway: c.1773 Berrylaw pits (west of Dunfermline) to the coast at Limekilns and Charlestown, Fife: Developed as the Dunfermline and Charlestown Railway Fairlie Mains 1818 Peatland coalworks to Kilmarnock and Troon Railway at Drybridge Fordell Railway: c.1752 Fordell Collieries to St Davids Harbour, Inverkeithing Bay
In 1820, Friedrich Harkort founded a consortium with the aim of building a wagonway from the Schlebusch Coal Region (Kohlerevier Schlebusch) to Haspe. The Schlesbusch-Harkort Coal Railway ( Schlebusch-Harkorter Kohlenbahn ), with a length of one Prussian mile (7½ kilometres), was largely completed by 1828 and was the first railway to operate ...
The first line to obtain such an act, the Middleton Railway Act 1757 (31 Geo. 2 c. 22 Pr.), was a private coal-owner's wagonway, the Middleton Railway in Leeds. [6] The first for public use, and on cast iron rails, was the Lake Lock Rail Road formed in 1796 and opened in 1798.
Blaenavon Railroad; Bleecker Street Line; Brampton Railway; Brandling Junction Railway; Brecon Forest Tramroad; Brill Tramway; Bristol and Gloucestershire Railway; Bröl Valley Railway; William Brown (mining engineer) Bryn Oer Tramway; Budweis–Linz–Gmunden Horse-Drawn Railway; Bullo Pill Railway; Burneside Paper Mills Tramway; Butterley ...
At first it was a single line wooden wagonway; the track gauge was 3 feet 3 inches (99 cm) and the wagons were of 30 long hundredweight (1,500 kg) capacity. [1] There were several branches and the system became extensive, there were branches to Collyland (this branch required an inclined plane [ citation needed ] ) and to Sherriffyards Colliery ...
Another wagonway was Sir Francis Willoughby's Wollaton Wagonway in Nottinghamshire built between 1603 and 1604 to carry coal. [3] As early as 1671 railed roads were in use in Durham to ease the conveyance of coal; the first of these was the Tanfield Wagonway. [4] Many of these tramroads or wagon ways were built in the 17th and 18th centuries ...