Site of a plaque commemorating the Surrey Iron Railway, York Road, Wandsworth
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Site of a plaque commemorating the Surrey Iron Railway, York Road, Wandsworth
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 8 Jan 2011
Looking north along the wall of the former Ram Brewery, in York Road, Wandsworth. Set into the wall near the plane tree are a number of stone sleepers, relics of the old Surrey Iron Railway which once ran along here to its terminus on the banks of the River Wandle, nearby. This railway is reckoned to have been the first in England to be opened for public use, in 1801. What is often overlooked is that railways (of a sort) were in use for industrial purposes long before the Steam Age. In the Nottingham area - so it is said - a railway (or tramway) was being used to transport coal as early as 1597. For the text displayed on the plaque, see: Image
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