Crickheath Tramway

The Crickheath Tramway was a 1.5 mile long, 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge narrow gauge industrial railway connecting the Porthywaen lime quarries near Llanymynech to the Crickheath Wharf on the Ellesmere and Chester Canal. It opened in the 1820s and closed in 1913.^[1]

References

1. ^ Baughan 1980, page 180

Sources

• Baughan, Peter E. (1980). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Volume 11 North and Mid Wales (1st ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-7850-3. OCLC 6823219. 
• Baughan, Peter E. (1991). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Volume 11 North and Mid Wales (2nd ed.). Nairn: David St John Thomas. ISBN 0-9465-3759-3. OCLC 26361284. 

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