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	The Open Door Web Site : History : The Industrial Revolution : The Development of the Railway
		Initially his "plateway" was just a method of storing the cast iron when the demand for iron was slack.
		However, the cast iron "plateway" was found to be so useful that he kept it in place.
		A further development by William Jessop, in 1789, was the introduction of waggon wheels with cast flanges on the inner rim.
	www.saburchill.com /history/chapters/IR/025.html (535 words)

	Waterways Chronology from 1798 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He reported that on the previous day he had carried out a survey and that the navigation between Dalderby and the Witham was crooked and imperfect.
		He advocates the rebuilding of colliery railways as plateways to take 2-ton waggons replacing the 10 -14 hundred-weight trucks using edge-rails.
		He criticised Benjamin Outram's plans for plateways, and rafts to carry the trucks, saying their use on the narrow canal would cause damage.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Chronology12.html (2135 words)

	History of rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A century later thin strips of wrought iron started to be nailed to the wooden rails.
		In the mid century systems developed in which unflanged wheels ran on L-shaped metal plates - these became known as plateways.
		Carr, a Sheffield colliery manager, invented a flanged rail, while William Jessop, another civil engineer, took the other line by using edged rails but flanged cart-wheels to be used on a scheme in Loughborough, Leicestershire in 1789.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_rail_transport (1101 words)

	Tramway Engineering
		Tredgold uses the term tram-road for plateways, where the wagons had plain wheels, but makes it clear that trams are the vehicles, and the rails are called flat or plate rails.
		Gritty plain common-road wheels on plateways soon wore through the chilled surface of the cast iron leading to accelerated wear, and effect that was absent with edge rail, that shed grit.
		Gang was used for a train, and gave the word gangway.] Wood states that Blenkinsop used the cog in 1811, Chapman, at Hetton Colliery, a chain in 1812, Brunton, at Butterley, legs in 1813, and finally Blackett, at Wylam Colliery, established the practicality of adhesion.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/railway/woodtred.htm (3929 words)

	Ashby-De-La-Zouch Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		All the same, a 1½ mile plateway was built and opened running from the canal near Moira to Newfields Pits.
		The plateways were the first to be completed with both lines (from Ticknall and Cloudhill to Willesley) opened by October.
		A plateway was built near the furnace in 1800, heading north east for about 1½ miles to Newfields Colliery.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/ashbyzouch.htm (5509 words)

	MSN Encarta - Railroads
		Why this measurement became the standard is a matter of speculation.
		Probably the tradition is inherited from early tramroads built to accommodate wagons with axles 1.5 m (5 ft) long; some of the early edge rails were 4.45 cm (1.75 in) wide at the top, and the installation of such rails on plateways of the traditional width would have resulted in the 143.51-cm gauge.
		Throughout most of the 19th century many railroad companies each built track with a different gauge; some gauges were wider than 143.51 cm and some narrower.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557841_2/Railroads.html (2045 words)

	Alderley Edge Mining Artefacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Plateways, Sleeper and wheels (Top of page picture) They were found at the bottom of the drop the end of the sewer passage in wood mine, that is under the new bridge.
		The wheels have the name cast in of the maker, that is MADELEY WOOD the plateways have the cast in name WOOD Co. Dated 1790all were made at the Bedlam furnace,Coalbrookdale,Shropshire.
		The place in wood mine where the tramway parts were found was worked in the 1860s so the parts must have come from another area at Alderley or originally bought in second hand.
	www.alderley.org.uk /tram.html (351 words)

	Cambridgeshire History - People
		Clearly, as a mine was worked, the tramway was manhandled to a new position and work could then have begun anew.
		The tramway was thus of a very temporary nature needing flanged wheels for bullhead rail and which were difficult and expensive to construct: the 'tramways' would have possibly been 'plateways' made of simple 'L' shaped girders along which horses drew wooden-wheeled trucks.
		At a minimum yield of 200 tons of nodules per acre 13-15,000 tons of coprolite had to be shifted.
	www.cambridgeshirehistory.com /People/coproliteindustry.html (1306 words)

	mapindustrial
		This was used to carry clay from the claypit opposite, along the bank, the route turning right by the Commissioners’yard, across the ‘main line’ of the railway, and into the brickworks.
		The clay was dug and hand shovelled into tubs at the bottom of the pit, drawn up the steep sides by a steam engine housed in a brick shed, and the horse drawn wagon pulled all the way into the brickworks.
		The plateway was still operating during the Second World War, the last haulier being a Mr Claude Cannell.
	www.pht.iofm.net /mapindustrial.htm (2782 words)

	Land and Environment: Steel Tramways in Kingston
		The new experimental section of the plateway was generally well received but there were concerns from some people about the width of the plates, the gauge, and the placement of the rails in relation to the road.
		Sections of the plates of rolled steel were joined together using fishplates and bolts, then inverted and filled with concrete before being placed on a bed of concrete where it was held firmly in place permitting heavily loaded wagons to proceed safely.
		These tramways or plateways continued to serve the market gardener community and night soil contractors for many years, but with the improvement in road construction and the increasing prevalence of motor vehicles they became redundant.
	localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au /htm/article/137.htm (2710 words)

	RSLR - Indoors
		Materials were moved about the works and to the river loading dock by hand worked plateway.
		Following the first world world war the Flixton Sand and Gravel Company took the opportunity to purchase redundant equipment from the Ministry of War, converting the plateways to 60cm gauge track and utilising internal combustion locomotives.
		The building boom that followed the war bought great riches to the company and the grandly titled Flixton Industrial Tramway was expanded to serve the local community in the direct vicinity of the works, taking on both agricultural and a little passenger traffic.
	www.trossachs.freeserve.co.uk /indoors/indoors.htm (777 words)

	Greenwich Industrial History Society, Issue 33
		Of particular interest was the discovery of evidence which led to the identification of a plateway at Merstham which pre-dated the CMGR by 10 or more years.
		This plateway, which was in the region of Quarry Dean Farm, led to underground stone workings via a stone barrel vault and cutting.
		The dating of the weight and its journey to Merstham lend support to the belief that this earlier plateway was still operational after 1809 in spite of the fact that the CMGR terminus had been superimposed on top of part of this earlier plateway.
	gihs.gold.ac.uk /gihs33.html (8643 words)

	Usenet Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		> > > Stephenson chose 56½ inches because that was the gauge of iron > plateways that predated steam hauled railways in the North East of > England.
		wrote: >> TP wrote: >>> Stephenson chose 56½ inches because that was the gauge of iron >>> plateways that predated steam hauled railways in the North East of >>> England.
		"Around 5'" was the common plateway gauge in the NE of England, but each railway cluster had its favoured gauge (about 4' to 4.5' in SE Wales and 3.5" in Shropshire and the Marches, IIRC, and the technology was different in the three areas).
	www.all-usenet-archive.com /File.asp?service=47060 (9432 words)

	V31-Flange & Cone Guidance
		This 'plateway' system allowed the vehicles, usually coal or mineral tubs, to be manoevered and run away from the rails on ordinary flat road surfaces.
		Unlike plateways, these railways did not have guidance flanges on the rails, so flanges had to be provided on the vehicle wheels instead.
		A certain amount of clearance had to be allowed between the flanges and the rails, so that any slight misalignment did not cause the flanges to 'bind-up' tight, but if there were too much clearance, the wheel could slip down between the rails.
	www.bathtram.org /tfb/tV31.htm (812 words)

	Waterways Engineers and Surveyors from Nimmo, Alexander
		He advised the company that a second lock with a small rise would be needed at the junction with the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal to avoid taking too much water.
		At the request of the company he gave his opinion on a proposal that the line to Worcester should be completed as a tramroad.
		He produced plans for a tramroad from the canal at Risca to the Tredegar works.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Engineers11.html (2538 words)

	Education resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Further effects of industrial development are displayed at the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, which houses a model of the dale at the height of its influence in 1805.
		The relationship between the series of pools, the plateways, the housing and foundries are clearly shown.
		The museum displays explain how and why Coalbrookdale became so influential within the iron trade during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as showing examples locally produced of work.
	www.ironbridge.org.uk /edu_visiting.asp (2881 words)

	Announcerese - Topic Powered by Groupee Community
		Although there have been railways (and plateways - where the flange is on the rail, not the wheel) for many years, the world's first railways, of almost any sort, were British.
		The first public railway (as opposed to the plateways used within private mines or other works) was the Surrey Iron Railway which was officially opened on the 26th July 1803.
		It was horse-drawn but carried goods across public areas from Wandsworth to Croydon and it was intended to continue to Godstone and Reigate, although that latter part was never built.
	wordcraft.infopop.cc /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/932607094/m/9366099614 (3823 words)

	Narrow Gauge Lines
		A lot of the tramways and plateways were built simply to carry coal or stone to a nearby port or to a railway proper and for these non-standard gauges were frequently used.
		Benjamin Outram, one of the pioneers of the plateways, used a gauge of four foot two inches (1.27m) for most of his lines and this became a common gauge in the North of England.
		There were many short industrial lines built in the West Midlands and these favoured gauges in the range one foot six to two foot six (0.45-0.76m).
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /gansg/2-track/02track4.htm (755 words)

	OldTools Archive -- message 76162
		Presumably that gauge was chosen because that was the distance between the wheels of the chaldrons when they were running on the roads, and no canny mine-owner would want to adopt new technology if he had to scrap his entire waggon fleet to do it.
		Thats where Stephenson got his first loco building experience so, he built to match the gauge of the existing horse trams and plateways, because otherwise he would have had more trouble selling locomotives than he did.
		A case of progressive improvement of new technology where nothing made it worth scrapping the entire system at one go.
	www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu /~cswingle/archive/get.phtml?message_id=76162 (426 words)

	Coaching Days and the Road Engineers
		The Southern Pacific Company in the United States oiled the ballast surface on its desert lines to shed cloudburst water better.
		Another connection of early roads and railways was in the horse path of plateways, which was analogous to the causeway along many roads as a winter path for single horses or pack animals in line.
		The plateway simultaneously provided a wagon way on which one horse could do the work of eight on a common road.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/tech/coaching.htm (3262 words)

	The Coal Industry.
		Which were pushed or pulled (using a belt or chain) along the galleries from the coal to the pit shaft.
		The use of wooden rails and iron plateways made movement easier.
		Raising the coal to the surface was a problem initially.
	www.coursework.info /i/49359.html (300 words)

	Roads, Railways, and Canals: Technical Choices in 19th-Century Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It was soon realized, too, that edge rails formed a stronger load-carrying beam, since their material could be disposed to give greater depth, but even so the plateways persisted in South Wales, the Surrey railway, and some other places.
		At first the edge rails only predominated in northern England and most of Scotland, but on a plateway or tramroad, a horse could only pull 5 or 6 tons, whereas on SirJohn Hope's edge railway 10.5 tons could be taken at 4 miles an hour.
		This was a great improvement, though it still left canals with a comfortable margin of superiority, since on a canal a horse pulled three times what it could manage on the best of the railways.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~drbr/r_ailroads.html (8400 words)

	174 April 2002
		In the last quarter of the 18th century, first John Curr and then Benjamin Outram came onto the scene with their L-section rail systems and the words 'tramroad', 'tramway' and 'dramroad' were soon being used to describe them as well.
		In their design, instead of the flanges being carried on the wagon wheels they were transferred to the rails, giving them their characteristic L-shaped section.
		This particular plateway cannot be attributed to either Curr or Outram but it certainly incorporated their design principles.
	www.brocross.com /iwps/pages/174/1740402.htm (15026 words)

	Railways in Draycott
		They were ways of stone blocks and iron rails, (plates), known as "plateways", which were horsedrawn goods only lines that supplemented the canal system.
		Around the Cheadle coalfield there were several such lines between local collieries and sales wharfs, and there was also a line from Consall to Lane End, (Longton), known as the North Stafford Railway of 1815, or the "Consall Plateway".
		For more information on that line and other early railways in the locality click on the link.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/3542/railways.html (1310 words)

	Terms and Conditions
		Each model comes complete with a water sight gauge, boiler test certificate, date of completion, the name of the purchaser, number of the model and price paid
		The plateway models are built to a scale of 1/11.3
		The working drawings for these miniatures are produced from the original drawings of the collection of the Neath Abbey Iron Company
	www.rpreston51.fsnet.co.uk /terms.htm (166 words)

	WYAS Advisory Service - Industrial Archaeology
		A further breakthrough in land transport came with the introduction of the railways to the region.
		Railways or plateways which eased the passage of horse-drawn wagons to and from the area's coal mines and quarries were common from the middle of the 18th century, and many survived into the second half of the 19th century.
		The real breakthrough, however, came with the development of the steam locomotive.
	www.arch.wyjs.org.uk /advsrv/Indarcas.htm (1490 words)

	Cromford Canal Central Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This was on the north side of the canal, between the old Hartshay Hill and the new (-ish) A610 embankment.
		The wharf took originally took coal via horse-drawn plateways from an old colliery close to Pentrich village, but later a standard gauge line was put in to allow access to the Ambergate & Pye Bridge branch of the MR, and also to the newer 'Pentrich Colliery' at Hammersmith (now the site of Geeson's scrap yard).
		This shot shows Bridle Lane bridge, Hartshay, from the east.
	www.proweb.co.uk /~cromford/c3old.html (184 words)

	BBC - Shropshire - Features - Places - Blists Hill Victorian Town
		Little is known about it until the late 18th Century, by which time coal mining was well-established.
		Three blast furnaces were built there and canals and plateways - early horse-drawn freight railways - criss-crossed the site.
		And a brick and tile works followed, using the clay mined on the canal bank.
	www.bbc.co.uk /shropshire/features/places/blists_hill/index.shtml (499 words)

	Thursday File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The correspondant pointed out that although a reasonable average width of a main road was 18 feet, the wheels of the vehicles together touched only about 6 inches of the surface.
		Thus, to save the expense of renewing the surface of the whole 18ft width, he offered the solution that roads be prepared with plateways.
		These would provide four specially prepared tracks (two in each direction) to take the wear from the wheels.
	www.thursdayfile.ca /tf/236/tis (657 words)

	Merstham History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The layout of the Merstham terminus of the CMandGIR has puzzled historians in the past and it was not until the 1970s that evidence started to emerge which enabled a clearer picture to be built up.
		During the rescue dig evidence of early plateways, wooden or metal flat rails with an extended flange on their outer edges to retain the wheels of horse drawn wagons on the track, was unearthed.
		Of particular interest was the discovery of evidence which led to the identification of a plateway at Merstham which predated the CMGR by 10 or more years.
	www.merstham.co.uk /merstham/MersthamHistory.htm (12469 words)

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