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The Haytor Granite Tramway (also called Heytor [1]) was a tramway built to convey granite from Haytor Down, Dartmoor, Devon to the Stover Canal.It was very unusual in that the track was formed of granite sections, shaped to guide the wheels of horse-drawn 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 ...
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.
The Granite Railway was one of the first railroads in the United States, built to carry granite from Quincy, Massachusetts, to a dock on the Neponset River in Milton. From there boats carried the heavy stone to Charlestown for construction of the Bunker Hill Monument .
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.
The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. Ewan, M (1964). The Haytor Granite Tramway & Stover Canal. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. Jenkins, S C; Pomroy, L J (1989).
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 ...
George Templer (1781 – 12 December 1843) was a landowner in Devon, England, and the builder of the Haytor Granite Tramway. His father was the second James Templer (1748–1813) who had built the Stover Canal .