Category:Swanage Pier Tramway

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<nowiki>Swanage Pier Tramway; pier railway in Dorset, England, UK</nowiki>
Swanage Pier Tramway 
pier railway in Dorset, England, UK
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Instance of
  • pier railway
LocationDorset, South West England, England
Date of official opening
  • 1858
Map50° 36′ 26.64″ N, 1° 57′ 09.72″ W
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In 1858 a pier was built in deeper water and linked to the stone stores on the waterfront by a Standard Gauge horse-drawn tramway. The line survived in use as a Narrow Gauuge line until the 1930s, latterly being used to carry fish from the pier to a fish store built alongside the line around 1855.