 N&G Railway took over much of the plateway's trackbed in the Norden area, including the exchange siding and the bridge over the main line railway.However the plateway's main route to Middlebere Creek, and the tunnels under the railway and road were all abandoned.As a "plateway", the Middlebere Plateway differed from the "edge railway" that eventually became the norm, in that the flanges retaining the truck wheels on the line were on the rails (plates) rather than on the wheels.