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The Haytor Tramway was constructed to carry the granite the 10 miles (16 km) to the canal, which involved a falling vertical interval of 1,300 feet (400 m) to the basin of the Stover Canal. Its form was a close relative of a plateway , where longitudinal L-shaped metal plates were used to support and guide the wheels of wagons.
Groby Granite Quarries railway [9] 1893 1943 2 ft (610 mm) Groby, England Extensive internal quarry system worked by five Hunslet steam locomotives. Haytor Granite Tramway: by 1824 1858 4 ft 3 in (1,295 mm) Dartmoor, England Horse-drawn tramway serving the granite quarries around Haytor. Used granite "setts" as rails. Jee's Hartshill Granite ...
Granite was formerly quarried beneath Haytor and an unusual granite railway constructed to transfer quarried blocks to the Stover Canal and thereby to the tidal Teign estuary. [9] Other granite quarries operated west of Princetown at Foggintor, Swelltor and Ingra Tor.
Ventiford Basin was cleared of silt by staff from a local clay company in 2016, with the work uncovering the remains of two more barges and another section of the Haytor Granite Tramway. After the stonework had been repointed, a dam was built at the southern end of the basin, and it was relined with puddle clay, allowing it to refill with water ...
Barnstaple railway station; Beer Quarry Caves; Berry Head Lighthouse; Bideford Long Bridge; ... Haytor Granite Tramway; Haytor quarries; Holsworthy railway station; K.
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad, Delaware and Hudson Railway and Haytor Granite Tramway: 1,300 mm 4 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 16 in: France Funiculars of Lyon (Lyon, France) Austria Reisszug (Salzburg, Austria) 1,321 mm 4 ft 4 in: England Mansfield and Pinxton Railway: Wales Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company (Newport and Pontypool ...
There were three major granite quarries on the moor: Haytor, Foggintor and Merrivale. The granite quarries around Haytor were the source of the stone used in several famous structures, including the New London Bridge, completed in 1831. This granite was transported from the moor via the Haytor Granite Tramway, stretches of which are still visible.
Railway lines (including tramway lines, light rail lines, rapid transit lines, monorails etc.) opened in the year 1820. ... Haytor Granite Tramway; K. Kington Tramway