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Definition of Tramroads

Tramroad
Tramroad Tram"road`, n. [Tram a coal wagon + road.] A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.

Meaning of Tramroads from wikipedia

- believed to have been used to carry the tramroad's directors. Bertram Baxter, Stone Blocks and Iron Rails (Tramroads), David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1966...
- The Merthyr Tramroad (sometimes referred to as the Penydarren Tramroad due to its use by Trevithick's locomotive, built at the ironworks) was a 9.75-mile-long...
- earliest tramroads were "edge-railways", where the wagons were guided by having flanged wheels running on plain rails, but from around 1800 most tramroads in...
- Blaenavon Ironworks Pwll Du Garnddyrys Forge Llanfoist Hill's Tramroad was a 2 feet (0.61 m) gauge plateway for horse-drawn trams that connected the Blaenavon...
- The Brecon Forest Tramroad is an early nineteenth century tramroad, or rather a network of connecting tramroads or waggonways, which stretched across...
- the business of the tramroad was so low that its income barely covered costs. On 1 August 1859 the Gloucester and Cheltenham Tramroads Abandonment Act 1859...
- (d. 1879) Rattenbury, Gordon; Lewis, M. J. T. (2004). Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads and their Locomotives. Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-52-0...
- Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad was a horse-worked plateway built in South Wales in 1803. The Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad was authorised under an...
- also known as the Quainton Tramway, Wotton Tramway, Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad and Metropolitan Railway Brill Branch, was a six-mile (10 km) rail line...
- Tramroads Company operated an electric tramway service in Gosforth, Wallsend and North Shields between 1902 and 1930. Tyneside Tramways and Tramroads...