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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

- 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...
- Monmouthshire Canal in 1792 included a provision that allowed the building of tramroads and stone wagon roads to ironworks, quarries and coalmines within 8 miles...
- The Bryn Oer Tramway (also known as the Brinore Tramroad) was a horse-worked narrow-gauge railway built in South Wales in 1814. The Brecknock and Abergavenny...
- railway by a water-balance lift, using water from a reservoir above. Hill's Tramroad ran for 3 miles (4.8 km) north east from Pwll Du round the Blorenge hill...
- Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company tramroads, and the Severn and Wye Railway, were wholly or partly double-track. Because...
- 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 construction of tramroads to places within 8 miles (13 km) of the canal, and they therefore built 8 miles (13 km) of tramroad from Newport to a point...
- Tramroads Company operated an electric tramway service in Gosforth, Wallsend and North Shields between 1902 and 1930. Tyneside Tramways and Tramroads...
- 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...