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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 ...
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 tramway itself was built out of the granite it would carry, and due to its durable nature much of it remains visible today. Haytor granite was used in the reconstruction of London Bridge which opened in 1831 and was moved in 1970 to Lake Havasu City in Arizona. [15] The last rock quarried here in 1919 was used for the Exeter war memorial. [16]
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon
The Granite Railway is popularly termed the first commercial railroad in the United States, as it was the first chartered railway to evolve into a common carrier without an intervening closure. The last active quarry closed in 1963; in 1985, the Metropolitan District Commission purchased 22 acres (8.9 ha), including Granite Railway Quarry, as ...
Nearby, at Haytor, granite was quarried and carried down to the Stover Canal at Ventiford, Teigngrace, on the Haytor Granite Tramway, the route of which is now commemorated in the Templer Way footpath. Haytor granite was used in the building of many civic structures including London Bridge, over the Thames in London.
Many railways were, in this era, constructing powerful express passenger locomotives of the 4-6-0 type, which benefit from 6 coupled driving wheels. The North British Railway's principal passenger engines had hitherto been of the 4-4-0 type, meaning that 4-coupled drive was more familiar. Additionally, the NBR had some very tight curves, for ...