{"product_id":"the-lee-moor-tramway-1963-ed-lp-19-9780853612452","title":"The Lee Moor Tramway - 1963 ed (LP 19)","description":"\u003cp\u003e1963 Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fairly uneventful life carrying china clay, sand, coal and the other necessities of the clay works at Lee Moor betrays the contribution the Lee Moor Tramway made to west country transport history. Built in 1859 with horse-drawn sections linked by cable-hauled inclines, it enabled the clay industry on the south west corner of Dartmoor to thrive until more modern transport overtook it, when it remained as, increasingly, an anachronism. Its two remarkable features were its gauge of 4 feet 6 inches, for it was built as a branch off the 1823 Plymouth \u0026amp;amp; Dartmoor Railway, and its level crossing of the Great Western Railway's west of England main line at Laira where, being the older route, its horse drawn trains had precedence over GWR expresses until as late as 1960. Both the steam locomotives introduced in 1899 to work the section between the inclines have been restored and preserved, one, at the time of writing, at the National Trust's Saltram House and the other at the Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum in Cornwall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftback, 14x22cm, 18 pages, black \u0026amp; white photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good\/Very Good with some fading to cover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oakwood Press","offers":[{"title":"Secondhand (285)","offer_id":58218315121023,"sku":"9780853612452","price":4.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1910\/7111\/files\/9780853612452_d4883a0f-45fe-4839-8dce-47e7d5a6b387.jpg?v=1787133624","url":"https:\/\/rail-books.co.uk\/products\/the-lee-moor-tramway-1963-ed-lp-19-9780853612452","provider":"Rail Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}