Talk:Weymouth Harbour Tramway

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Please do not add any more inline images without a significant expansion of the text, and then make the image relevant to this new text. If you want to replace one of the existing images with one you feel is better, I suggest discussing it here first. Thryduulf (talk) 08:36, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not railway line?

Why is it a tramway and not a railway line? No trams used it, trains did. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/tramway says it's a term for trams, not railway tracks that share space with a road. Various pages that the articles links to refer to it as a railway, including in their title. ― Ralph Corderoy (talk) 15:34, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ralph Corderoy: This is a legal legacy issue. Back in 1870, the Tramways Act was enacted. This enabled private companies to build street running tramways (intended for real trams). The act provided that the tram operating company was responsible for the repair and maintenance of not only the metal rails but the entire road including the pavements. At the time the Weymouth Harbour Tramway was built, this legal provision applied to this street running line in equal measure as the act made no distinction. The line is consequently a tramway because the Tramways Act 1870 applied to it. 86.164.128.157 (talk) 16:44, 5 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]