Neilson's Tramway was a British industrial narrow-gauge railway which operated from 1881 to 1929. Walter Neilson was a farmer who owned land on the south...
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Finedon (section Neilson's Quarries)
(711 mm) gauge tramway down to sidings on the Midland Railway. These siding were called "Neilson's Sidings" until at least the 1990s. Neilson's original pits...
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gauge tramways served the iron ore industry, the Wellingborough Tramway, Neilson's Tramway and the Finedonhill Tramway. The Wellingborough Tramway served...
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in operation in Northamptonshire between 1875 and 1926, as well as Neilson's Tramway from 1881 to 1929. Currently Northamptonshire is served by 3 mainlines...
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(D6) Kaitaia Township – No. 2565 of 1880 (D221) Bush Tramway Club – No. 3751 of 1888 (F216) Neilson and Company supplied the first (F13 of 1872) and last...
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twentieth century and many of their plants used railways. Peak Forest Tramway In Britain large deposits of Kaolinite (commonly known as "china clay")...
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0°39′24″W / 52.3190°N 0.6566°W / 52.3190; -0.6566 The Wellingborough Tramway was an industrial narrow-gauge railway that connected a series of ironstone...
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West Sussex Railway (redirect from Hundred of Manhood & Selsey Tramway)
1897, was also known as Hundred of Manhood and Selsey Tramway. It was opened as a rail tramway in order to avoid having to comply with regulations that...
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The Bush Tramway Club is a heritage railway 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Huntly along the Rotowaro Road, in the Waikato region of New Zealand. It regularly...
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West Somerset Mineral Railway (redirect from Colton Tramway)
gauge tramway was built from Brendon Hill to the Colton Iron Mine's western adit. This was at a lower altitude than Brendon Hill, so the tramway had to...
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updated form. It may be the oldest operational railway. Wagonways (or tramways), with wooden rails and horse-drawn traffic, are known to have been used...
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ISBN 0-86417-544-2. The Bundooora Tramway Transit Australia December 1995 page 267 Milestones, 1991 - 2000 Yarra Trams Lyndsay Neilson. "Appendix 1: Funding Allocation...
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railway and tramway would open up the coal and iron districts of Arigna and Lough Allen. The Cavan, Leitrim & Roscommon Light Railway & Tramway Company was...
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Saint Scholastica) 36 Smeaton Street: Mon Abri 1222 Stanley Street East: Neilson's Cottage 149 Temple Street: Mecklenburg's Cottage 401 Upper cornwall Street:...
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company, the Moreton Bay Tramway Company, which had proposed to build a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge horse-drawn tramway but had been unable to...
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hand, Samarang–Cheribon Stoomtram Mij. (SCS) or Samarang–Cheribon Steam Tramway imported 19 units of superheated 4-6-0s, consisting 13 from Hartmann, Chemnitz...
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less from city to city. In the 1880s, railway electrification began with tramways and rapid transit systems. Starting in the 1940s, steam locomotives were...
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Beaumaris, Victoria (section Horse tramway)
total. The Shire Council contracted the Beaumaris Tramway Company (BTC) in February 1888 for a horse tramway with a 30-year operating lease. The Sandringham...
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purchased by NIS from the Solosche Tramweg Maatschappij (SoTM) or Solo Tramway Company. They also acquired a 0-6-0T which had been operated by SoTM with...
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Scorrier; at first called the Portreath Tramway, with later extensions it became known as the Poldice Tramway. It was a horse-worked plateway and it was...
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Portstewart Tramway 1 1–2 0-4-0T Kitson & Company T56 1882 Preserved at the Streetlife Museum of Transport in Hull. Portstewart Tramway 2 1–2 0-4-0T...
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metropolitan system. From here, a south main line extended to meet the horse tramway from Victor Harbor to Strathalbyn, and towards the South Australia/Victoria...
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Varsity Line (Freight only to East) Blackthorn Brill and Ludgershall Brill Tramway Dorton Halt Great Central Main Line Ashendon Junction Haddenham Ilmer Halt...
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0-4-0ST 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) H. Hughes & Co — 1877 May 1936 Operated the tramway at Caldon Low Quarries, the quarries were owned by the NSR. — Toad 0-4-0ST...
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retained for shunting, departmental work and working trains over the Brill Tramway. The need for more powerful locomotives for both passenger and freight...
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first female Lord Provost 1962: Last route of the Glasgow Corporation Tramways closes 1964: University of Strathclyde established; Beeching closes low-level...
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Petrol Scrapped in 1934. No. 2 1934 ex-Castlederg and Victoria Bridge Tramway Petrol Rebuilt as a trailer in 1944. Sold in 1961 and removed to Mountcharles...
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NZR D class (1874) (category Neilson locomotives)
"Locomotives" David Jones, Where Railcars Roamed (Wellington: Wellington Tramway Museum, 1999), 4. Leitch, Railways of New Zealand, 192. Palmer & Stewart...
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5 Maurice Dart, Cornwall Narrow Gauge including the Camborne & Redruth tramway, Middleton Press, Midhurst, 2005, ISBN 1-904474-56-X Martin Bodman, Inclined...
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compared to wagons. This was demonstrated on an iron plate-covered wooden tramway in 1805 at Croydon, England. A good horse on an ordinary turnpike road...
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