Little railway that serves a Manchester boatyard
Oct 15, 2018
2 minutes
Words and pictures by Stuart Chapman
MANY of Britain’s first railways – call them waggonways or tramways if you will – were built to link industrial sites with the nearest navigable waterway or port.
Horse-drawn affairs, they were soon superseded by steam railways, which ended up taking much trade from canals and replaced them as the premier mode of freight transport.
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