Wellingborough Tramway

52°19′08″N 0°39′24″W / 52.3190°N 0.6566°W / 52.3190; -0.6566

Wellingborough Tramway
Overview
HeadquartersWellingborough
LocaleEngland
Dates of operation1874–1966
SuccessorAbandoned
Technical
Track gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge
Length4 miles (6.4 km)
Locomotive No. 86 that ran on the Tramway until 1966, seen preserved at the Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
The quarry face of Glebe Quarry, seen in 2006

The Wellingborough Tramway was an industrial narrow-gauge railway that connected a series of ironstone mines and quarries with the Midland Railway and later with the ironworks on the north side of Wellingborough. In various forms, the tramway operated between 1875 and 1966.