Ticknall Tramway
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The Ticknall Tramway was a 12.8 mi long 4 ft 2 in gauge horse-drawn plateway terminating at Ticknall, Derbyshire, England. It operated from 1802 to 1913.
Switch of the “Outram Way”
Blackwater Pit
Tramway bridge at Woodlands Wharf
Plateway
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A plateway is an early kind of railway, tramway or wagonway, where the rails are made from cast iron. They were mainly used for about 50 years up to 1830, though some continued later.
A replica of a "Little Eaton Tramway" wagon. The rails have an 'L' cross-section and the wheels have no flange.
A reconstructed section of flangeway track as used by Richard Trevithick's pioneering locomotives at Coalbrookdale and Merthyr