JBuchananGB
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Makes me think of the Waterloo & City Line. Not connected to anything else. Rolling stock lowered from above by crane.
That was always rail connected I believe.What about the London Necropolis Railway?
Peterhead prison railway fits this one I think.
... and to whether any criminal rail enthusiasts were quite as enthusiastic after using it in the course of a hard day's work!The mind goes to the question of whether non-criminal railway enthusiasts were ever able to get permission to travel on the Prison Railway...
... and to whether any criminal rail enthusiasts were quite as enthusiastic after using it in the course of a hard day's work!
This railway had it's own terminus at Waterloo and within the grounds of the cemetery at Brookwood, but otherwise used the L&SWR/SR track between the two.What about the London Necropolis Railway?
Yes - the Long Reach and Joyce Green Smallpox Isolation hospitals - see https://maps.nls.uk/view/102342320 for a 1920s map showing the tramway. I've no idea what the gauge was, but it was certainly running in 'isolation'!Wasn't there a railway or tramway in Dartford which transported those with contagious diseases (cholera?) from a pier on the Thames up to a hospital?
The prison museum in Peterhead has a restored prisoner wagon from the railway - also they recount a story of how one convict somehow missed the train back from the quarry and walked back to the prison following the railway tracks. When you consider the guards were armed with instructions to shoot to kill escapees, perhaps not so surprising he returned. A fascinating and sobering museum.
Sadly, I understood the OP to mean UK mainland.would the Ryde pier tramway satisfy the conditions laid out by the OP?
I think that, originally, ran to St Johns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryde_Pier concurs) and something tells me it also connected to a street-running bit but I cannot find the evidence not. In my head, at least, it ran through what is now the SWR booking office.would the Ryde pier tramway satisfy the conditions laid out by the OP?
I was going to suggest funicular railways but are any standard gauge? Bridgenorth isnt.
By road, just like today's heritage railway.If these railways were truly isolated from the rest of the rail system, how did trains and carriages find their way onto the tracks?
There must have been some wagonways on Tyneside that were standalone operations.
Yes - the Long Reach and Joyce Green Smallpox Isolation hospitals - see https://maps.nls.uk/view/102342320 for a 1920s map showing the tramway. I've no idea what the gauge was, but it was certainly running in 'isolation'!
When the Bideford Westward Ho!and Appledore railway closed, temporary tracks were laid along roads between the two railways. All the equipment at Tregantle came by barge, some removed by roadBy road, just like today's heritage railway.
A similar question arises when you think of the earliest of railways. Stephenson built his Rocket in Newcastle, but there was no railway to take it to the Rainhill Trials. Other competitors had similar distances to travel, too. Canal and/or sea was the preferred option back then, i.i.r.c., with road transport for the last miles where required.If these railways were truly isolated from the rest of the rail system, how did trains and carriages find their way onto the tracks?
When the Bideford Westward Ho!and Appledore railway closed, temporary tracks were laid along roads between the two railways.