THE FIRST TRAMWAY
It is recorded that the ninth Duke of Norfolk laid a tramway with wooden rails in 1774, with a view to assisting and cheapening the transport of coal. The local people did not appreciate the innovation, and serious riots occurred, in the course of which the lines were damaged. They were afterwards replaced by iron rails, and it is contended that this was tho first tramway in the coun» try to be so constructed. .fames Outram's cast-iron track plates laid on wooden' cross sleepers, which were afterwards replaced by cast-iron boxes and then by stone blocks, were “Outram ways/’ but it seems probable thnt the similarity between this term and “tramways” is only a coincidence.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12425, 20 April 1926, Page 3
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118THE FIRST TRAMWAY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12425, 20 April 1926, Page 3
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