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This type of rail was known as the plate-rail, tramway-plate or way-plate, names that are preserved in the modern term "platelayer" applied to the workers who lay and maintain the permanent way. [13] The wheels of flangeway wagons were plain, but they could not operate on ordinary roads as the narrow rims would dig into the surface.
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.
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 ...
A wagonway, essentially a railway powered by animals drawing the cars or wagons, was used by German miners at Caldbeck, Cumbria, England, perhaps from the 1560s. [1] A wagonway was built at Prescot, near Liverpool, sometime around 1600, possibly as early as 1594. Owned by Philip Layton, the line carried coal from a pit near Prescot Hall to a ...
The earliest railway in Britain was a wagonway system; a horse drawn wooden rail system, used by German miners at Caldbeck, Cumbria, England, perhaps from the 1560s. [14] A wagonway was built at Prescot, near Liverpool, sometime around 1600, possibly as early as 1594.
The Seaton Burn Wagonway (originally known as the Brunton and Shields Railway) was from 1826 to 1920 a partially horse-drawn and partially rope-operated industrial railway with a gauge of 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm) near Newcastle upon Tyne.
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.
The first train south to Causey was on 27 July 1991, with the official opening ceremony being held on 15 August 1991. The first train further south to the current end of the line at East Tanfield occurred on 18 October 1992. [3] East Tanfield Station itself was opened in 1997. The Causey to Tanfield section is through a wood lined gorge. [4]