The Surrey Iron Railway (SIR) was a horse-drawn narrow-gauge plateway that linked Wandsworth and Croydon via Mitcham, all then in Surrey but now suburbs...

Srirangapatna railway station are also on display. Other exhibits include a 1925 Austin rail motor car, 1900-built WG Bagnall 1625, a Surrey Iron Railway (SIR)...

the Docks project the Surrey Iron Railway, linking Wandsworth and Croydon (1801–1802), arguably the world's first public railway—albeit horse-drawn the...

of the L-shaped cast-iron plate rails. The plates were 3 ft long. One horse pulled about five trams. 1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, London opened. It linked...

of years. The Surrey Iron Railway from Croydon to Wandsworth opened in 1803 and was an early public railway. Later 19th century railway building facilitated...

William Jessop opened the Surrey Iron Railway, a double track plateway, erroneously sometimes cited as world's first public railway, in south London. William...

to the building of the Surrey Iron Railway, the world's first public railway, in 1803. The decline and failure of the railway in the 1840s also heralded...

railway line in south London. It was opened in 1855 by the Wimbledon and Croydon Railway (W&CR) over part of the trackbed of the Surrey Iron Railway....

included the Hay Railway, the Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway, the Surrey Iron Railway, the Derby Canal Railway, the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, the Portreath...

William Jessop opened the Surrey Iron Railway, a double track plateway, sometimes erroneously cited as world's first public railway, in south London. In 1789...

4 ft 2 in (1,270 mm) gauge Surrey Iron Railway of 1803. The Lake Lock Rail Road is recognized as the world's first public railway. Meanwhile, the development...

in 1801. May 21 – The Surrey Iron Railway in England is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the first railway company established by...

world’s first dock-owning public railway company. September 21 – First traffic passes over the Surrey Iron Railway in England. January 10 – Carl Ritter...

Canal linked to the Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Railway (itself connected to the Surrey Iron Railway), enabling the canal to be used to transport stone...

Grand Surrey Canal, at the time called the Kent and Surrey Canal, the Croydon Canal linking Croydon and Rotherhithe, and the Surrey Iron Railway, a horse-drawn...

United States Patent and Trademark Office Surrey Iron Railway, a horse-drawn plateway that linked the former Surrey towns of Wandsworth and Croydon Serial...

England the plate-rail was preferred. Plate-rails were used on the Surrey Iron Railway (SIR), from Wandsworth to West Croydon. The SIR was sanctioned by...

railways to form the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR). The Surrey Iron Railway had been opened in 1806 between Wandsworth and Croydon;...

doubled from 1921 to 1951, creating a largely urban core. In 1803, the Surrey Iron Railway opened between Wandsworth and Croydon, following the shallow Wandle...

compartment railway carriage operated between Stockton and Middlesbrough until 1864; Tomlinson (1915, p. 529) is unclear. The Surrey Iron Railway was the...

Wallington 1804. The Surrey Iron Railway was enhanced by the "Coulsdon Merstham & Godstone Railway". These were horsedrawn railways which carried quarried...

public railway was the Oystermouth Railway, authorised in 1807. All three of these railways were initially worked by horses; the Surrey Iron Railway remained...

a prototype steam-powered railway locomotive. The first railway began operating during this time. The Surrey Iron Railway in Great Britain was established...

roads. 26 July: The Surrey Iron Railway, a horse-worked wagonway between Wandsworth and Croydon, opens, making it the first public railway line in England...

the original site. After the Surrey Iron Railway (SIR) went out of business in 1846, the Wimbledon and Croydon Railway (W&CR) took over the route and...

Mitcham and Hackbridge was originally used by the Surrey Iron Railway, the world's first public railway, authorised by Act of Parliament in 1803. New tram...

then, public railways had been horse-drawn, including the Lake Lock Rail Road (1796), Surrey Iron Railway (1801) and the Oystermouth Railway near Swansea...

Carmarthenshire Railway opens, the first public railway in Wales. July 26 - The Surrey Iron Railway formally opens throughout, first public railway in England...

commemorate the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the pioneering Surrey Iron Railway (a horse-drawn plateway), of which the Pitlake terminus was close...

Merstham and Godstone Railway, an extension of the horse-drawn Surrey Iron Railway of 1803, the world's first public railway, albeit only for goods....