Aldershot narrow-gauge suspension railway

[3] "A committee of Royal Engineers having been appointed by the War Office to investigate the merits of the system reported so favorably that an experimental locomotive line of 18 in (457 mm) gauge, about 20 miles (32.2 km) in length, has been made at Aldershot Camp.

All the details appear to have been carefully considered, and, if the result were as satisfactory as anticipated, it was intended to make several miles of this railway in and about the camps at Aldershot, and in leisure times the soldiers could be exercised in taking them down and putting it up again for military transport service.

"[3] The experiments referred to formed one of a series which have been held at Aldershot during the last three months of 1872, and the result fully justified all that its inventor has stated respecting the scheme.

The lines made on this principle are capable of carrying sufficient quantities of military stores, including field artillery and siege guns of 7-tons weight.

The maximum speed attained with a passengers only train was thirty miles an hour (48 km/h), and the carriages ran as smoothly as those of a standard-gauge railway.

[4] Manning, Wardle & Co. of the Boyne Engine Works, Leeds designed and built a special locomotive for its operation.