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... 47 KB (4,540 words) - 22:51, 19 April 2024 |
William Jessop (section Surrey Iron Railway) the Docks project the Surrey Iron Railway, linking Wandsworth and Croydon (1801–1802), arguably the world's first public railway—albeit horse-drawn the... 13 KB (1,686 words) - 05:59, 21 December 2023 |
Croydon (redirect from Croydon, Surrey) 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... 100 KB (11,234 words) - 07:54, 21 April 2024 |
Mitcham (redirect from Mitcham, Surrey) 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... 33 KB (3,288 words) - 14:46, 20 April 2024 |
Plateway (category Railways by type) included the Hay Railway, the Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway, the Surrey Iron Railway, the Derby Canal Railway, the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, the Portreath... 8 KB (1,027 words) - 18:02, 4 January 2024 |
Rail transport (redirect from Railway) William Jessop opened the Surrey Iron Railway, a double track plateway, erroneously sometimes cited as world's first public railway, in south London. William... 108 KB (12,394 words) - 19:14, 15 April 2024 |
Wimbledon–West Croydon line (redirect from Wimbledon and Croydon Railway Company) 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.... 9 KB (1,182 words) - 21:10, 28 January 2024 |