- 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...
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preceded the
steam locomotive and used
horses to haul wagons. The
terms plateway and
tramway were also used. The
advantage of
wagonways was that far bigger...
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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...
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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...
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Richard Trevithick for the
Coalbrookdale Company, ran on a 3 ft (914 mm)
plateway. The
first commercially successful steam locomotive was
Matthew Murray's...
- 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...
- The
Carmarthenshire Railway or
Tramroad was a horse-worked
plateway built in
South Wales in 1803. The
Carmarthenshire Railway or
Tramroad was authorised...
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railways of Europe, vol 2. Brighton:
Plateway Press. ISBN 1871980135. ——————— (2003).
Rails through Majorca. Norfolk:
Plateway Press. ISBN 1871980518. Cañellas...
- "ganger". The term "platelayer"
derives from the
plates used to
build plateways, an
early form of railway.
Inspecting and
maintaining the track, including...
