Definition of Tramroads. Meaning of Tramroads. Synonyms of Tramroads

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Tramroads. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Tramroads and, of course, Tramroads synonyms and on the right images related to the word Tramroads.

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

- 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...
- 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...
- believed to have been used to carry the tramroad's directors. Bertram Baxter, Stone Blocks and Iron Rails (Tramroads), David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1966...
- (1990), The Archaeology of an Early Railway System: The Brecon Forest Tramroads, Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales, p. 333...
- 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...
- The Brecon Forest Tramroad is an early nineteenth century tramroad, or rather a network of connecting tramroads or waggonways, which stretched across...
- Engineered by Crawshay Bailey in 1821, this tramroad (sometimes also referred to as Bailey's Tramroad) traverses the southeastern slopes of the gorge...
- Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company tramroads, and the Severn and Wye Railway, were wholly or partly double-track. Because...