Burneside Paper Mills Tramway
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
The tramway was built in 1879-80 as a Vorlage:RailGauge line to connect the paper mills run by James Cropper and Co in Burneside and Cowan Head. Wagons were hauled by horse power.
It was converted to Vorlage:RailGauge 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.[2] In 1951 Rachel was replaced by a diesel Rushton.[3]
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.[4]
Rachel has survived and is preserved at the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. The Rushton was named Flying Flea at Carnforth before moving south to Sir William McAlpine's Fawley Hill Railway.
References
- ↑ David Joy: A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The Lake Counties. David and Charles, 1983, ISBN 978-0-946537-02-0, S. 231.
- ↑ Rachel. In: The Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. Abgerufen am 8. Juli 2017.
- ↑ Burneside Paper Mill. In: Industrial History of Cumbria. Cumbria Industrial History Society, 19. April 2005, abgerufen am 8. Juli 2017.
- ↑ James Cropper PLC Annual Reports 2010. In: www.cropper.com. James Cropper, 2010, abgerufen am 8. Juli 2017.