Talk:History of Swansea
... sure about the correction of waggonways to wagonways. I did think about this whilst writing ... say the lower Swansea valley industries used wagonways, great, but so far I am finding ... for changing the spelling of 'waggonways' to 'wagonways', I merely thought that it was a ... I wanted to link it to the 'Wagonways' page for those (like myself) who had ... waggonways' link on this page to the 'Wagonways' page? I'm pretty new to ...
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Wagonway
Wagonway Wagonways are the horses, equipment, and tracks used ... the mines at Wollaton to Nottingham, England. Wagonways improved coal transport by allowing one horse ... coal per run - an approximate fourfold increase. Wagonways were usually designed to carry the fully ... George Stephenson successfully argued that horse drawn wagonways were obsolete and a steam powered railway ... around the middle of the 18th century, wagonways and steam powered railways that had ...
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Burry Port
... sufficient to solve the transport problems and wagonways were built to carry traffic from the ... to the canal itself. Several of these wagonways became plateways and then railways as technology ... nearby and this also was fed by wagonways. The canals continued to expand and wharves ... by a series of chaotic canals and wagonways it finally offered a way to ship ...
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Talk:Plateway
... Pt1234 16:52, 23 November 2005 (UTC) Wagonways even earlier Wagonways were even older than plateways, and sometimes ...
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Mansfield and Pinxton Railway
... Nottinghamshire quarry owners and miners had built wagonways to transport heavy goods. As larger projects ... as to what form it should take. Wagonways had developed into steel plateways, for which ...
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User:G-Man/works in progress
... in the 16th century, simple horse-drawn wagonways (also called Tramways) became popular. These usually ... these were usually known as plateways. Typically wagonways were used to transport material from a ...
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Stockton and Darlington Railway
... run in the traditional manner of the wagonways of the time. The S&DR merely ... was tolerable on completely horse-drawn traffic wagonways, but with faster steam trains it soon ...
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Leamside line
... to many private colliery branch lines and wagonways. The main engineering feature of the line ...
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Plateway
... accurately. Antecedents Even older than plateways came wagonways which used wooden rails or grooves cut ...
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Steam Horse locomotive
... the pithead to the canals, horse-drawn wagonways had been constructed and steam engines were ...
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