gradient in an urban environment. The first cog railway was the Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom... 31 KB (3,734 words) - 15:28, 3 April 2024 |
Middleton railway station may refer to: Middleton railway station, Greater Manchester Middleton Junction railway station, Greater Manchester Middleton... 406 bytes (75 words) - 06:59, 21 January 2018 |
George Middleton-in-Teesdale Cumbria Middleton, Cumbria Derbyshire Middleton-by-Wirksworth Middleton Incline, a former railway incline Middleton railway station... 5 KB (505 words) - 00:25, 11 November 2023 |
Rail transport (redirect from Railway) been cited as the earliest British railway. It ran from Strelley to Wollaton near Nottingham. The Middleton Railway in Leeds, which was built in 1758,... 108 KB (12,394 words) - 19:14, 15 April 2024 |
Steam locomotive (redirect from Steam railway) Coalbrookdale in 1802. Salamanca, built in 1812 by Matthew Murray for the Middleton Railway, was the first commercially successful steam locomotive. Locomotion... 145 KB (17,769 words) - 10:13, 21 April 2024 |
Matthew Murray's Salamanca built in 1812 for the 4 ft 1 in (1,245 mm) Middleton Railway in Leeds. Salamanca was also the first rack-and-pinion locomotive... 22 KB (2,471 words) - 00:29, 29 April 2024 |
in 1812 by Matthew Murray of Holbeck, for the edge-railed Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds, England and it predated Stephenson's Rocket by... 5 KB (468 words) - 09:26, 4 October 2023 |
Middleton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Rochdale and... 35 KB (3,561 words) - 07:54, 16 March 2024 |
D1076 of 1958) at East Lancs Railway 0-4-0DM D631/1946 Carroll at Middleton Railway 0-6-0D D707 No. 21 at the Rutland Railway 0-4-0DM Elland No.1 (works... 31 KB (1,819 words) - 23:23, 4 April 2024 |
built before 1763, was 5 ft (1,524 mm), as was John Blenkinsop's Middleton Railway; the old 4 ft (1,219 mm) plateway was relaid to 5 ft (1,524 mm) so... 55 KB (3,591 words) - 03:22, 28 April 2024 |
use by the Tanfield Railway, making this the oldest operational railway in the world. 1758 – The Middleton Railway, the first railway granted powers by... 54 KB (6,834 words) - 16:16, 27 April 2024 |
Middleton railway station was a minor railway station on the Cromford and High Peak Railway on the Middleton Incline. Outside of Middleton, Derbyshire... 1 KB (78 words) - 19:16, 31 May 2023 |
History of rail transport (redirect from Railway history) been cited as the earliest British railway. It ran from Strelley to Wollaton near Nottingham. The Middleton Railway in Leeds, which was built in 1758,... 108 KB (13,445 words) - 16:36, 27 March 2024 |
John Blenkinsop (category English railway mechanical engineers) now known as the Middleton Railway. Not all the land traversed by the wagonway belonged to Brandling, and it was the first railway to be authorised by... 8 KB (978 words) - 07:17, 29 February 2024 |
line between Troon and Gargieston, near Kilmarnock. August 12 – The Middleton Railway, serving coal pits at Leeds in England, becomes the first to use steam... 3 KB (301 words) - 01:10, 26 December 2023 |
List of track gauges (redirect from List of railway gauges) of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails. For ridable miniature railways and minimum gauge railways, the... 52 KB (1,211 words) - 18:57, 23 April 2024 |
Middleton Railway station served the town of Middleton. The station opened on 5 January 1857 when the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) opened a... 4 KB (304 words) - 12:35, 13 July 2023 |
Transport in Leeds (section Middleton Steam Railway) The Middleton Steam Railway is the oldest continuously working railway system in the world. Originally built to transport coal from Middleton Colliery... 32 KB (3,644 words) - 20:38, 24 April 2024 |
most railway companies in Britain at one time or another. 67 is now at the Middleton Railway in Leeds and 4744 is now with the North Norfolk Railway at... 26 KB (3,303 words) - 06:27, 25 April 2024 |
home of rugby league club Hunslet. The Middleton Railway runs between Moor Road, Hunslet and Park Halt railway station. It is also the site of Leeds Urban... 6 KB (603 words) - 01:13, 9 May 2023 |
and Haverthwaite Railway, Haverthwaite, nr Staveley, Cumbria Middleton Railway, Hunslet, West Yorkshire North Tyneside Steam Railway, North Shields, Tyne... 37 KB (2,713 words) - 19:50, 2 April 2024 |
Wagonway (redirect from Edge railway) at Wollaton. The Middleton Railway in Leeds, which was built in 1758 as a wagonway, later became the world's first operational railway (other than funiculars)... 23 KB (2,814 words) - 15:17, 12 January 2024 |