Completion of a new tramway linking the town to the RER was scheduled for 2017.
A 13 feet diameter turntable at the end of the tramway linked to a spur from the A&B.
At its northern end it joined the Kidwelly and Llanelly canal at Ty Gwyn, just to the north of the disused Ashburnham Canal, and at its southern end, a short tramway linked its terminus to Gaunt's harbour.
A turntable at the end of the tramway would link to a spur from the A&B's line.
From a distance, we glimpsed the delicate S3 "aerial tramway", which links the Resterhöhe and Kirch skiing areas over a stupendous 400-metre drop, but which sadly was well beyond my skiing capabilities to visit.
Now the lock-keeper's cottage is a private house on its island; cut granite blocks still define sides of the lock, but trees overgrow the canal and waterlogged paths, making it difficult to envisage the tramway that linked with lime kilns at Netstakes quay, just downriver.
A 38 million euro tramway built to link a Spanish coastal town with a nearby beach resort that has been unused for the past few years is being packed up and sent to Australia.
The tramway did not link to the A&B, but had its own station at Quainton Road at a right angle to the A&B.
The aim of these plans was, as the company put it in 1906, "to tap the large traffic of the South London Tramways, and to link up by a direct Line several of the most important Railway termini".
From Montpellier, take the tramway line 4 to Pérols-Etang de l'or (1.40 euro or $2).
