Kington Tramway
The Kington Tramway was a British horse-drawn railroad company based in Herefordshire , England .
On May 23, 1818, the company received the concession for a horse-drawn railway from the limestone quarries at Burlinjob to the Hay Railway at Eardisley . The 22.5-kilometer line with a gauge of 1067 mm was opened on May 1, 1820 from Eardisley to Kington and on August 7, 1820 to Burlinjob. The financing came from the engineer James Watt and the hardware dealer John Meredith from Hereford , among others . The railway speculator Thomas Savin acquired the company and used on some sections of the track bed for the Kington and Eardisley Railway built by him .
literature
- Christopher Awdry: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Stephens, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herefordshire Council: Newly-restored tram returns “home” ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Herefordshire Through Time: Herefordshire Iron Foundries ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Helen J. Simpson: The day the trains came: the Herefordshire railways . Gracewing Publishing, 1997, ISBN 978-0-85244-374-3 , pp. 120 ( [1] ).
