£16.99
Roy Taylor
Status: In Stock
• Publication Date – 1999
• Format & Edition – Hardback, First Edition
• Pagination – 96 Pages, 130 Illustrations
• Condition – New
• Genre – Trams & Tramways
The Lee Moor Tramway by Roy Taylor.
A fairly uneventful life carrying china clay, sand, coal and the other necessities of the clay works at Lee Moor betrays the contribution the Lee Moor Tramway made to west country transport history. Built in 1859 with horse-drawn sections linked by cable-hauled inclines, it enabled the clay industry on the south west corner of Dartmoor to thrive until more modern transport overtook it.
Its two remarkable features were its gauge of 4 feet 6 inches, for it was built as a branch off the 1823 Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway, and its level crossing of the Great Western Railway’s west of England main line at Laira where, being the older route, its horse drawn trains had precedence over GWR expresses until as late as 1960. Both the steam locomotives to work the section between the inclines have been restored.