The Smithy Houses Tramroad (Little Eaton Gangway) was a 3' 6" gauge industrial plateway serving the Derby Canal at Little Eaton in Derbyshire. It opened in 1795 and closed in 1908. In 1792, Benjamin Outram was asked to prepare plans for a broad canal from Swarkestone to Smithy Houses, near Denby, with a branch at Derby to the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre. The use of a tramway as an alternative was first proposed by William Jessop later that year. The Derby Canal Act of 1793 authorized a rail connection between the Derby Canal at Little Eaton and the collieries to the north. The tramway ran 4 miles from the canal wharf at Little Eaton to Smithy Houses and another 1 mile further to Denby Hall Colliery. Further short branches served Salterwood & Denby Pottery (¾ - 1 m), Salterwood North Colliery (2¼ m) and Henmoor Colliery (1 m)