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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...
- mined. The
wagonway was
presumably then abandoned. The
success of the
Wollaton Wagonway led to
Huntingdon Beaumont building other wagonways for his other...
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Shields Wagonway (later
Seaton Burn
Wagonway) was
built to the
River Tyne at
Whitehill Point. The
routes of the
Fawdon and
Seaton Burn
Wagonways were used...
- 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) for
wagonways in
Northumberland and Durham, and used it on his
Killingworth line. The
Hetton and
Springwell wagonways also used this gauge...
- 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...
- were
narrow and in
pairs to
support only the wheels. That is, they were
wagonways or tracks. Some had
grooves or
flanges or
other mechanical means to keep...
-
Gangway in England,
constructed as a horse-drawn
wagonway in 1795.
Other 3 ft 6 in
gauge wagonways in
England and
Wales were also
built in the early...
- The
earliest form of railways, horse-drawn
wagonways,
originated in
Germany in the 16th century. Soon
wagonways were also
built in Britain. However, the...
-
wagons running on
stone wagonways, the
earliest of
which were
built by
Babylon circa 2,200 BCE.
Starting in the 1500s,
wagonways were
introduced to haul...
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Railway (Causey Extension)
Light Railway Order 1991
History of the
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