page_title: Little Eaton Gangway
section_title: Decline
hierarchical_section_title: Little Eaton Gangway / Decline
caption_attribution_description: English: Little Eaton Tramway Replica Wagon
context_page_description: The Little Eaton Gangway, officially the Derby Canal Railway, was a narrow gauge industrial wagonway serving the Derby Canal, in England, at Little Eaton in Derbyshire.
context_section_description: When the Midland Railway built its branch line to Ripley in 1856, it lost most of its trade, finally closing in 1908.
  The trackbed was used for a new road, the A61, bypassing the old road through Coxbench. This, in turn, was superseded at the end of the twentieth century by the A38 trunk road, demoting it to the B6179. Thus there are three generations of highway side-by-side, plus the remains of the railway.
  The only remaining trace of the gangway is the Wharf building seen in the photo above, the easternmost arch of Jack O' Darley bridge, and another two arch bridge over the Bottle Brook, with a few of the sleeper stones that have been used in nearby walls. A wagon from this period of the gangway's history was preserved in the National Mining Museum at Lound Hall, Bothamsall and is now in the National Railway Museum.
  A replica Little Eaton Gangway wagon is on display at the Midland Railway Trust near Ripley.
caption: Replica Wagon at the Midland Railway Trust
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