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Description: | This is the main north-south siding that ran right through the centre of the factory site linking all the manufacturing departments to the mainline railway. The building on the left is the North Manufacturing Department. It was the purchase of land to build this large new department in 1868 that allowed the construction of the private factory sidings. This was because the new land linked the existing factory to the south of the river up to the edge of the Great Western Railway line that became the factory's northern boundary. Although the new locomotives transported some material around the site, the majority of the internal transport was on wagons pulled by horses or pushed by hand on narrow gauge tramlines. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | building social history trade transport track tram industry trains animal | Temporal: | start=1895-01-01; end=1905-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Victor White | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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