The Morda Tramway refers to two industrial railways south of Oswestry, on the border between England and Wales.
They connected the coal pits around Morda to transport networks, the first to the Montgomery Canal and the second to the Cambrian Railways at Whitehaven.
A horse-drawn tramway running southeast was built in 1813 to serve the small coal mines of Coed-y-Go and the Bell Pits near Morda,[1] about 1 mile south of Oswestry.
[4] It ran northwards, west of Sweeney Mountain to the small hamlet Gronwen (this section is walkable today, including a steep bank in a shallow cutting from Sweeney Fen nature reserve opening out onto a causeway as far as Gronwen), then curved west up the brook, under Brook House bridge and then swung northeast to Coed-y-Go.
[4] There is a fine bridge at Brook House, that has a high arch to accommodate the tall chimneys of the locomotives used on the line.