Fayle's Tramways. Clay mining in Purbeck. Two hundred years, six different gauges
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- Author(s) Legg, Chris
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2016
- Pages 2nd ed; 167pp; illus
- Publisher Twelveheads Press
- Place Published Truro
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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First published 2014. Written by an enthusiast relating the history of extraction and of the railways that served it - extraction processes, tramways, horses, locomotives, rolling stock, family connections and personalities, merchants, miners, accidents, education, shipping, effects of war, etc. Deals with clay extraction and mining as well as transport and wider context. Much about the underlying business of the Fayle family and its later connections with Pike Brothers and English China Clays. Includes references to Middlebere Tramway; Goathorn Tramway; Norden & Goathorn Tramway; Norden Clay Works