Английская Википедия:Burneside Paper Mills Tramway

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The Burneside Tramway was initially a narrow gauge and later a standard gauge industrial railway serving the James Cropper paper mills around Burneside, Cumbria.[1]

History

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Track from the tramway in Burneside.

The tramway was built in 1879-80 as a Шаблон:TrackGauge line to connect the paper mills run by James Cropper and Co in Burneside and Cowan Head.[2] Wagons were hauled by horse power.

It was converted to Шаблон:TrackGauge in 1924, and in the same year, the Motor Rail and Tram Car Company in Bedford provided an 0-4-0 Dorman Petrol locomotive called Rachel which was used to transfer wagons between the mill and Burneside railway station.[3] In 1951 Rachel was replaced by a diesel Ruston 48 No.294266.[4]

The line to Cowan Head closed in 1965, with the section between Burneside Mill and Burneside railway station still operating until it closed in 1974.[5]

Rachel has survived and is preserved at the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway.

The Ruston was named Flying Flea at Carnforth before moving south to Sir William McAlpine's Fawley Hill Railway. The locomotive was not in regular use, and was sold on to Lawrie Rose, who moved the engine to the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway. The locomotive was renamed Sir William McAlpine by dowager Lady Judith McAlpine.

References

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