A stone tramway leading up Cleveden Crescent Lane in the west of Glasgow. Consisting of slabs of smoothed granite, they reduced the friction between cartwheels and cobbled streets, while the setts in between the tramways provided grip for the horses' hooves. This allowed one horse to pull what it would otherwise take two horses to move.
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A stone tramway set into a cobbled lane leading up to a bricked-up cart entrance of a former industrial building in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. To be found on Lancefield Street, this area was once home to a wide range of industrial businesses, including the Finnieston Steamship Works, the Lancefield Brass Foundry, Lancefield Galvenising Works, and the wonderfully named Aerated Water Manufactory.
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What lies beneath: Old cobbles and part of a stone tramway peeking through the thin layer of worn out modern tarmac which covers them on Lancefield Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow.
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A stone tramway on South Woodside Road leading down and under the 1890s Great Western Road Bridge over the river Kelvin in Glasgow. They're designed to make it easier for horses to pull carts up steep hills paved with cobbles.
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In Britain, this started with the creation of the Birkenhead Tramway in the 1860s, which, rather oddly, was built by the American George Francis Train!
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Stone tramways existed well before the metal tramways were introduced, with their name being derived from an type of 15th century mining cart which was known in Scotland as a tram.
Stone tramways were primarily used for moving good rather than people, and it wasn't until the metal tramways of the 1800s that they started being used for passenger transport, and our current meaning of the word tram came into common usage.
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One of Glasgow's few surviving stone tramways on Cleveden Crescent Lane in the west of the city. Consisting of slabs of smoothed granite, they reduced the friction between cartwheels and cobbled streets, while the setts in between the tramways provided grip for the horses' hooves. This allowed one horse to pull what it would otherwise take two horses to move.
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