- operation.
Plateways were
particularly favoured in
South Wales and the
Forest of Dean, in some
cases replacing existing edge rails.
Other notable plateways included...
- used for
hauling wagons,
which preceded steam-powered railways. The
terms plateway, tramway, dramway, were used. The
advantage of
wagonways was that far bigger...
- 1859
onwards to
replace an ad hoc
arrangement of
individual plateways.
Laying of
plateways had
started in 1824 and was
completed by 1854–1855; they then...
-
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...
-
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...
- to
Monmouth at May Hill, on the east side of the
River Wye. This toll
plateway, with a
gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,070 mm), was
horse operated. It
opened in...
- 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...
-
Romans for
heavy horse and ox-drawn transportation. By the 1700s,
paved plateways with cast iron
rails were
introduced in
England for
transporting coal...
-
Richard Trevithick for the
Coalbrookdale Company, ran on a 3 ft (914 mm)
plateway. The
first commercially successful steam locomotive was
Matthew Murray's...
- "ganger". The term "platelayer"
derives from the
plates used to
build plateways, an
early form of railway.
Inspecting and
maintaining the track, including...
