- 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...
-
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...
-
Richard Trevithick for the
Coalbrookdale Company, ran on a 3 ft (914 mm)
plateway. The
first commercially successful steam locomotive was
Matthew Murray's...
-
Plymouth Ironworks,
Merthyr Tydfil,
South Wales.
First introduction of
plateway (for
underground use), at
Sheffield Park Colliery, Yorkshire, England,...
- used for
hauling wagons,
which preceded steam-powered railways. The
terms plateway, tramway, dramway, were used. The
advantage of
wagonways was that far bigger...
-
Scotland originated in
Kilmarnock in 1812 as a horse-drawn 4 ft-gauge
plateway and
became known as the
Kilmarnock and
Troon Railway. The
first printed...
- 524 mm), as was John Blenkinsop's
Middleton Railway; the old 4 ft (1,219 mm)
plateway was
relaid to 5 ft (1,524 mm) so that Blenkinsop's
engine could be used...
- Cooper,
Frederick W (1989). The
Calshot and
Fawley Narrow gauge Railways.
Plateway Press. p. 53. ISBN 095111087X. Potter, D. (1990). The
Talyllyn Railway...
- part of the L
guiding the wheels; this is
generally referred to as a "
plateway".
Flanged wheels eventually became universal, and the
spacing between the...
