Tram rail
- Description
- This is a fragment of the track from the Exeter tram line. Trams ran on cast iron rails, thinner in section than those used in railways, but with more pronounced flanges which engaged with the undercarriage of the tram.
- Accession Loan No.
- 86/2001/1
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Common Name
- tram rail
- Simple Name
- rail
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Year Low
- 1905
- Production Year High
- 1931
- Family Group
- Material
- iron
- Collector / Excavator
- Exeter Archaeology
- Collection Town
- Exeter
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
