Burneside Paper Mills Tramway

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Burneside Paper Mills Tramway
Main gate by James Cropper Burneside Mills. The tram tracks are still visible on the left bridge.
Main gate by James Cropper Burneside Mills. The
tram tracks are still visible on the left bridge.
Route of the Burneside Paper Mills Tramway
Tram tracks in Burneside
Route length: 2.4 km
Gauge : 1067 mm
from 1924: 1435 mm

The Burneside Paper Mills Tramway was from 1880 to 1974 a 2.4 km long line of the James Cropper paper mill near Burneside in Cumbria with a track width of initially 3 feet 6 inches (1,067 mm) and later 4 feet 8½ inches (1,435 mm).

history

The Burneside Paper Mills Tramway was built as a narrow-gauge railway in 1879/80 to connect the James Cropper paper mills in Burneside and Cowan Head . The goods carts were pulled by horses.

The tracks were changed to standard gauge in 1924 . In the same year by the Motor Rail and Tram Car Company in Bedford a 0-4-0 Dorman Petrol locomotive named Rachel delivered that was used to move cars between the factory and the station of Burneside. In 1951, Rachel was replaced by a Rushton diesel locomotive called the Flying Flea (flying flea).

The line to Cowan Head was taken out of service in 1965, the section from Burneside Mill to Burneside Station remained in service until 1974.

Rachel is still preserved today on the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway . The Rushton locomotive was in Carnforth before being taken to Sir William McAlpine's Fawley Hill Railway.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Joy: A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The Lake Counties . David and Charles, 1983, ISBN 9780946537020 , p. 231.
  2. ↑ Rachel .
  3. ^ Burneside Paper Mill . Cumbria Industrial History Society. April 19, 2005.
  4. ↑ James Cropper PLC Annual Reports 2010 . James Cropper. 2010.

Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′ 19.44 "  N , 2 ° 45 ′ 49.54"  W.