Butterley Gangroad
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title:
Butterley Gangroad
text:
The Butterley Gangroad was an early tramway in Derbyshire of approximately 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge, which linked Hilt's Quarry and other limestone quarries at Crich with the Cromford Canal at Bullbridge. The first railway project of Derbyshire civil engineer Benjamin Outram (1764–1805), the line was originally a horse-drawn and gravity-driven plateway, a form of tramway that Outram popularised. Unlike modern edgeways, where flanges on the wheel guide it along the track, plateways used L-shape
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description:
Early industrial tramway in Derbyshire, England
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterley_Gangroad
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date modified:
2024-04-20T12:54:17Z
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