Complex sentence: It was essentially a form of turnpike as users had to provide their own wagons and horses, paying a fee for use of the plateway (tramroad), similar to the modern arrangement under which a Train operating company pays track access charges to Network Rail.
Split into simpler sentences: It was essentially a form of turnpike as users had to provide their own wagons and horses, paying a fee for use of the plateway (tramroad). This is similar to the modern arrangement under which a Train operating company pays track access charges to Network Rail.