Lime Works
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Peak Forest Tramway
| Name | Opened | Closed | Gauge | Location | Notes |
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| Barn Hill Quarry railway | 1928 | 1938 | 20 in (508 mm) | Chipping Sodbury, England | 800-yard (732 m) long locomotive worked line; locomotive transferred to Penlee Quarry railway in 1947 |
| Black Rock Quarry | before 1919 | 1949 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Portishead, England | Steam locomotive worked tramway connecting the Black Rock and Nightingale quarries with the Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway |
| British Quarrying Co Ltd Allington Quarry railway | 1928 | 1956 | 2 ft (610 mm)? | Maidstone, England | Locomotive worked internal quarry system |
| British Quarrying Co Ltd Borough Green Quarry railway | before 1921 | 1956 | 20 in (508 mm) | Borough Green, England | Internal quarry system for "Kentish Ragstone". Originally horse worked, Simplex locomotive introduced in 1921 |
| Brockham Lime Works | 1870s (?) | 1936 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Dorking, England | Lime pits and works railway, later home of the Brockham Museum |
| Buriton Lime Works | before 1897 | after 1936 | 3 ft (914 mm) and 2 ft (610 mm) | Buriton, England | Diesel locomotive worked railway |
| Butserhill Lime Works | before 1932 | by 1945 | Butser Hill, England | ||
| Cauldon Low Quarry | before 1906 | 1933 | 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) | Waterhouses, England | Limestone quarry with an internal steam-worked railway system |
| Dorking Greystone Lime Co. | 1880 | 1954 | 3 ft 2 1⁄4 in (972 mm) and 2 ft (610 mm) | Betchworth, England | Well-known steam hauled internal limeworks line. |
| Dunball Quarry | before 1930 | 1954 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Dunball, England | Steam locomotive worked tramway connecting the Dunball quarry with the lime works |
| Flagstaff Quarry | 1941 | 3 ft (914 mm) | Anglesey, Wales | Internal incline-worked quarry line | |
| Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway | 1889 | 1931 | 3 ft (914 mm) | Porth Dyniewyd, Wales | Internal limestone quarry railway. |
| Milton Quarry | early 1900s | 1966 | 1 ft 11 1⁄2 in (597 mm) | Weston-super-Mare, England | Small limestone quarry with cable-hauled railway |
| Oxstead Greystone Lime Co. | before 1912 | 1971 | 2 ft (610 mm) | Oxstead, England | Internal railway of lime quarry and works. |
| Parc-y-Meirch quarry railway | 1923 | 1958 | 2 ft (610 mm) | St. Asaph, Wales | Locomotive-worked line connecting the limestone quarry with the standard gauge Kinmel Camp Railway |
| Peak Forest Tramway | 1794 | 1923 | 4 ft 2 in (1,270 mm) | Chapel en le Frith, England | Early tramway that was horse and chain hauled throughout its life. |
| Whitehaven Quarry | 1932 | 1953 | 4 ft (1,219 mm) | Oswestry, Wales | A series of rope-hauled inclines and steam locomotive worked tramways. |
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