page_title: Burneside Paper Mills Tramway
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Burneside Paper Mills Tramway / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Railway track in a private driveway, Burneside, Cumbria. The track remains from the former railway good yard.
context_page_description: The Burneside Tramway was initially a narrow gauge and later a standard gauge industrial railway serving the James Cropper paper mills around Burneside, Cumbria.
context_section_description: The tramway was built in 1879-80 as a 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) line to connect the paper mills run by James Cropper and Co in Burneside and Cowan Head. Wagons were hauled by horse power.
  It was converted to 4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm) in 1924, and in the same year, the Motor Rail and Tram Car Company in Bedford provided an 0-4-0 Dorman Petrol locomotive called Rachel which was used to transfer wagons between the mill and Burneside railway station. In 1951 Rachel was replaced by a diesel Ruston 48 No.294266. 
  The line to Cowan Head closed in 1965, with the section between Burneside Mill and Burneside railway station still operating until it closed in 1974.
  Rachel has survived and is preserved at the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. The Ruston was named Flying Flea at Carnforth before moving south to Sir William McAlpine's Fawley Hill Railway where it was named Sir William, and in more recent times it moved to the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway.
caption: Track from the tramway in Burneside.
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