The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway: Further Reading

The following pages within the LNER Encyclopedia provide more detail about related subjects:

• GER Class G15 (LNER Y6) 0-4-0 Steam Trams
• GER Class C53 (LNER J70) 0-6-0 Steam Trams
• Y10 0-4-0 'Super Sentinel'
• T.W. Worsdell, GER Locomotive Superintendent
• James Holden, GER Locomotive Superintendent

The following resources were used in the writing of these pages, and are recommended for people looking for further information.

Online

• Martin Clutt's Awdry Engines site details the various locomotives from the Awdry stories and their prototypes; including Toby, Mavis, and Henrietta.
  
  
• The Awdry Family Site is a must-see website for fans of the Awdry Railway Stories, including Toby and Mavis.
  
  
• The maps were produced by Winwaed Software Technology LLC using Microsoft's MapPoint product.

Print

• The Wisbech & Upwell Tramway, by E.J. Gadsden et al was written in the last months of the tramway and gives a good historical description, including a chapter of stories and anecdotes by Rev. W. Awdry.
  
  
• The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway Centenary Album, by Andrew C. Ingram was published to mark the centenary of the opening of the tramway.
  
  
• Life and Times of the Great Eastern Railway, 1839-1923, by H.W. Paar, Adrian Gray is a collection of stories about the personalities involved with the Great Eastern Railway selected from throughout its life.
  
  
• "The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway" - two part article in Railway Bylines Volume 6: Issue 5 (April 2001), and Issue 9 (August 2001).
  
  
• "Missed Trains: Wisbech in the Railway Age" by H.C. Jones, is available from the Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Museum Square, Wisbech, Cambs PE13 1ES for £4.00 including UK postage. This book is a detailed account of Wisbech during the Railway Mania of the 1840s.
• The HMRS Museum and Study Centre at Swanwick Junction in Derbyshire, contains a 7mm scale model of the fictional Elmwell Village Depot terminus of a proposed branch line of the Wisbech & Upwell system.