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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...
- 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...
- 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 Brecon Forest Tramroad is an early nineteenth century tramroad, or rather a network of connecting tramroads or waggonways, which stretched across...
- 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...
- (1990), The Archaeology of an Early Railway System: The Brecon Forest Tramroads, Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales, p. 333...
- (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...
- 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 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...
- in Abergavenny Museum probably originates from this tramroad. Rattenbury, Gordon (1980). Tramroads of the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal (First ed.)....