A plateway is an early kind of railway, tramway or wagonway, where the rails are made from cast iron. They were mainly used for about 50 years up to 1830...
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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...
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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...
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Wagonway (section Plateways, flangeways)
used for hauling wagons, which preceded steam-powered railways. The terms plateway, tramway, dramway, were used. The advantage of wagonways was that far bigger...
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524 mm), as was John Blenkinsop's Middleton Railway; the old 4 ft (1,219 mm) plateway was relaid to 5 ft (1,524 mm) so that Blenkinsop's engine could be used...
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Richard Trevithick for the Coalbrookdale Company, ran on a 3 ft (914 mm) plateway. The first commercially successful steam locomotive was Matthew Murray's...
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Plymouth Ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. First introduction of plateway (for underground use), at Sheffield Park Colliery, Yorkshire, England,...
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Scotland originated in Kilmarnock in 1812 as a horse-drawn 4 ft-gauge plateway and became known as the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway. The first printed...
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railways of Europe, vol 2. Brighton: Plateway Press. ISBN 1871980135. ——————— (2003). Rails through Majorca. Norfolk: Plateway Press. ISBN 1871980518. Cañellas...
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part of the L guiding the wheels; this is generally referred to as a "plateway". Flanged wheels eventually became universal, and the spacing between the...
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Locomotive Apprentice at the North British Locomotive Company Ltd Glasgow Plateway Press 1992[page needed] Glanfield, Devil's Chariots[page needed] Regan...
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Romans for heavy horse and ox-drawn transportation. By the 1700s, paved plateways with cast iron rails were introduced in England for transporting coal...
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History of the railway track (section Iron plateways)
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...
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Severn and Wye Railway introduces a steam locomotive on its 3 ft 6 in gauge plateway. 1862 The Norwegian engineer Carl Abraham Pihl constructed the first 3 ft 6 in...
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Norfolk: Plateway Press. ISBN 1871980488. Marshall, Lawrence G (2005). Indian Metre Gauge Steam Remembered. East Harling, Norfolk: Plateway Press. ISBN 1871980542...
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accident, a boiler explosion of "Brunton's Mechanical Traveller" on a plateway killed 16 people, mainly sightseers. There were 732 deaths from 146 accidents...
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Cooper, Frederick W (1989). The Calshot and Fawley Narrow gauge Railways. Plateway Press. p. 53. ISBN 095111087X. Potter, D. (1990). The Talyllyn Railway...
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gauge Railways. Plateway Press. pp. 9–19. ISBN 095111087X. Cooper, Frederick W (1989). The Calshot and Fawley Narrow gauge Railways. Plateway Press. p. 29...
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Benjamin Outram, who preferred the traditional iron L-shaped flange-rail plateway.[citation needed] 1793 – The Butterley Gangroad or the "Crich Rail-way"...
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later became the Butterley Company in Ripley. The wagons that ran on these plateway rails had a flat profile. Outram's partner William Jessop preferred the...
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Supply. 7 (1): 219–227. doi:10.2166/ws.2007.025. "Market Gardeners Tram Plateway". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Council of Victoria. Archived from...
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constructed at Fritchley on the "Butterley Gangroad", the Butterley Company's plateway to carry limestone from Hilt's Quarry at Crich to kilns on the Cromford...
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developed to use L-shaped steel plates, the track then being known as a plateway. An alternative appeared in 1789, the so-called "edge-rail", which allowed...
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originally the terminus of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, a horse-drawn plateway built in 1819 and one of the first acquisitions of the newly formed Midland...
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on early wooden railways to move wagons between tracks. As iron-railed plateways became more common in the eighteenth century, cast iron components were...
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The Rumney Railway in Wales was a 4 ft 2 in (1,270 mm) plateway built to connect the ironworks at Rhymney to the Monmouthshire Canal Company's tramroad...
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head of the canal at Merthyr and these were converted to 4 ft 4 in gauge plateways to connect with this new line allowing through running. In 1804, Trevithick's...
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Richard Trevithick's pioneering locomotive at Pen-y-darren broke the plateway track and had to be withdrawn. As locomotives became more widespread in...
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ISBN 0-948951-00-1. Neale, A. (1995). Hunslet Narrow Gauge Locomotives. Plateway Press. ISBN 1-871980-28-3. "Second new Hunslet just £152,750!". Railway...
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Railway 282 308 Dorset Frampton Tunnel Railway 595 651 Dorset Middlebere Plateway Tunnels Railway Built in two stages 1807, 1825 Dorset Poundbury Tunnel...
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