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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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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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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