British narrow gauge industrial wagonway (1795-1908)
Little Eaton Gangway
The Little Eaton Gangway in 1908 with the last train of loaded coal waggons
Overview
Headquarters
Little Eaton
Locale
England
Dates of operation
1795–1908
Successor
Abandoned
Technical
Track gauge
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) and 4 ft (1,219 mm)
Length
5 miles (8 km)
The Little Eaton Gangway, officially the Derby Canal Railway, was a narrow gauge industrial wagonway serving the Derby Canal, in England, at Little Eaton in Derbyshire.
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opened the LittleEatonGangway, upon which coal was carried in wagons built at his Butterley Ironwork. The horse-drawn wheeled wagons on the gangway took the...
demolished in 1971. An important extension to the Derby Canal was the LittleEatonGangway, a feeder for the Derby Canal built on the pattern of that at Crich...
the first railways using 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge track was the LittleEatonGangway in England, constructed as a horse-drawn wagonway in 1795. Other...
opened the LittleEatonGangway, upon which coal was carried in wagons built at his Butterley Ironwork. The horse-drawn wheeled wagons on the gangway took the...
Derby Canal was built, it extended northwards to LittleEaton from where was built the LittleEatonGangway in 1795, to cater for the area to the south, particularly...
November 2006. History of rail transport in Great Britain History of rail transport British narrow gauge railways Haytor Granite Tramway LittleEatonGangway...
Ripley Branch. It had a siding at Denby Wharf (the terminus of the LittleEatonGangway) approximately opposite to the factory. Each week around three or...
Duffield Road level crossing was the Derby Canal Wharf where the LittleEatonGangway also terminated and at that point a goods yard was provided. The...
short plateways, such as those to the Caldon Low quarries and the LittleEatonGangway, had been built. Their purpose was to convey a mineral to a nearby...
fire-clay works and workers villages are evident from records such as OS maps. Little now remains of the buildings and railway lines, apart from at Lady Ha' Colliery...
were fastened directly onto the blocks, in the same manner as his LittleEatonGangway built for the Derby Canal. The rails, known as gang rails or plates...
were then constructing the LittleEatonGangway in Derbyshire. Samuel Wyatt was also involved in the construction of the gangway, and his brother Benjamin...
the sharp curve for locomotive operation, and a wooden bridge was built a little to the south to carry the realigned route. This was in turn replaced by...
Barony Court to obtain payment for a boill bear from one Thomas Wylie of Little Corsehill. In the 17th-century it was the custom in respectable families...
sleeper found at the Hurry near Millburn Drive A typical wagonway. The LittleEatonGangway. The railway was built by the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal...
the railway. It had a siding at Denby Wharf (the terminus of the LittleEatonGangway) about a third of a mile further north. Each week around three or...
were hardly any seamen to man the boats. Some had been sent below to open gangway doors to allow more passengers to be evacuated, but they never returned...
founded a dye works at Wirksworth, opening branches in Duffield and LittleEaton, then Belper, and finally building his main works at Bullbridge in 1908...
Road. St Edmund’s Church on Sinfin Avenue by the Derby architect Arthur Eaton was opened in 1939. The Sinfin Avenue estate was built in the 1970s, and...
Perkis steered the boat along the side of the ship in search for open gangways, since he had been told to take more passengers on board but found no one...