- A
plateway is an
early kind of railway,
tramway or wagonway,
where the
rails are made from cast iron. They were
mainly used for
about 50
years up to 1830...
- The
Middlebere Plateway, or
Middlebere Tramway, was a horse-drawn
plateway on the Isle of
Purbeck in the
English county of Dorset. One of the
first railways...
- used for
hauling wagons,
which preceded steam-powered railways. The
terms plateway, tramway, dramway, were used. The
advantage of
wagonways was that far bigger...
-
Richard Trevithick for the
Coalbrookdale Company, ran on a 3 ft (914 mm)
plateway. The
first commercially successful steam locomotive was
Matthew Murray's...
-
unflanged wheels ran on L-shaped
metal plates,
which came to be
known as
plateways. John Curr, a
Sheffield colliery manager,
invented this
flanged rail in...
-
originated in
Kilmarnock in 1812 as a horse-drawn four-foot-gauge (1.2 m)
plateway and
became known as the
Kilmarnock and
Troon Railway. The
first printed...
-
Milton Viaduct, is the
earliest railway viaduct in Scotland. It was a
plateway,
using L-shaped iron
plates as rails, to
carry wagons with
flangeless wheels...
- The
Carmarthenshire Railway or
Tramroad was a horse-worked
plateway built in
South Wales in 1803. The
Carmarthenshire Railway or
Tramroad was authorised...
- The
Surrey Iron
Railway (SIR) was a horse-drawn narrow-gauge
plateway that
linked Wandsworth and
Croydon via Mitcham, all then in
Surrey but now suburbs...
-
rails are
referred to as plates, and the
railway is
sometimes called a
plateway. The term "platelayer" also
derives from this origin. In theory, the unflanged...
