EARLY RAILWAYS GROUP (formerly TRAMROADS GROUP) OCCASIONAL PAPERS

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1 EARLY RAILWAYS GROUP (formerly TRAMROADS GROUP) OCCASIONAL PAPERS Free copies of these papers are available by to members of the Society 1980 OP No. of pages 1 John van Laun In search of "Crawshay Bailey's engine" 2 2 John van Laun An 18th century railway on Clee Hill 1 3 John van Laun Staffordshire RO Aqualate Hall papers D/1788/P.26/108b (1769 railroad at Aberavon, West Glamorgan) 1 4 John van Laun Milestones on the Llanvihangel Railway 1 5 John van Laun Brecon, Hay and Whitney Canal 1 6 John van Laun Bye laws, orders and regulations for the government and good order of the railway [Hay Railway] 4 7 Michael Lewis From Merthyr to Newcastle in P G Rattenbury A proposed Lancashire plateway, Michael Lewis Crawshay Bailey's engine again 3 10 Michael Lewis The Foxton tramroad? 1 11 P G Rattenbury Tramroads of the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal: an addendum C A Watkins Buildings associated with the Brinore Tramroads 4 13 John van Laun Plan of the wharfs, rail road... near Langroyney Forge' 1 14 Paul Reynolds Where was the first Fforchdwm level? 4 15 Paul Reynolds An early tramroad locomotive at Llansamlet, Swansea: further evidence 2 16 B Osborne The Union wharf weight from Merstham 2 17 L Popplewell Tunnels of the Middlebere plateway, Dorset S R Hughes A proposed tramroad locomotive of a Rodney Weaver Claypon's locomotive: further comment 1 18b P G Rattenbury Claypon's locomotive: further comment 1 18c Michael Lewis Claypon's locomotive again 1 19 Paul Reynolds Ynyscedwyn incline on Claypon's tramroad, Paul Reynolds The Brynmawr-Newbridge tramroad mail coach of Rodney Weaver The 1840 Neath Abbey drawing of Claypon's locomotive 3 22 Harry Paar Some thoughts on Claypon's 1840 locomotive 3

2 Gurney's steam carriage at Merthyr: 1830 letter of W. Crawshay 2 23a Roger Kidner Steam tramroad locomotives (Gurney engines at Hirwaun, south Wales) 1 24 Harry Paar Measuring the rails for the Monmouthshire tramroad 3 25 Harry Paar Bibliography of tramroad items in Industrial Railway Record 2 26 Grahame Boyes John Martin's Paddington-Denham railway plan of Harry Paar Stone blocks John van Laun The Glamorganshire Canal basin at Merthyr Tydfil in Paul Reynolds Improved tramplates in the Llanelli region, Paul Reynolds The first Port Talbot railway, Harry Paar Granite railways: a railway aberration? 3 32 Tim Smith The Commercial Road stoneway 2 33 Grahame Boyes Some books relating to waggonways of Northumberland and Durham 2 34 Paul Reynolds The end of the Cefn Rhigos incline in the Vale of Neath 1 35 Harry Paar Reference to early railways in the Railway Magazine 6 36 The Bertram Baxter collections: a brief guide P G Rattenbury Some further published tramroad references 2 38 Alun Richards Tracing a tramway by botanical anomaly 1 39 Paul Reynolds The 1838 Gwaun-cae-Gurwen railway: an abandoned feeder to the Swansea Canal Harry Paar Some recent publications 1 41 Harry Paar More funny tramroads and railways 1 42 Paul Reynolds The mystery of the disappearing tramroad waggon at Preston 2 43 H J Compton The Baxter photographic collection: a catalogue Blake Tyson A horse-drawn waggonway at Whitehaven in 1683(?) P G Rattenbury An acrimonious dispute on the Penydarren Tramroad 1 46 Brian Mills Some thoughts on the term `sleeper' 1 47 Brian Mills The Sirhowy Tramroad: a 1906 source 3 48 Harry Paar Review of: Ralph Anstis, `The Teague Tramroads' (article in New Regard (the journal of the Forest of Dean Local History Society)) 2 49 P G Rattenbury Some further thoughts on sleepers 1 50 Scheduled tramroads in south Wales (Cadw listing) 2 51 The discovery of an early wooden waggonway at Ironbridge 1 52 Preserving major tramroad sites 1

3 [Withdrawn] 53a [Withdrawn] 54 P G Rattenbury James Barnes, the contractor for the Merthyr Tramroad 1 55 John van Laun Wooden railways on and around Clee Hill 3 56 Derek Bayliss The family of John Curr 1 56a Harry Paar An anecdote concerning John Curr 1 57 Information requested on the Tardebigge tramroad near Redditch Grahame Boyes New light on some Tyneside waggonways 2 59 Roger Kidner North Kent's only tramroad 1 60 Paul Reynolds James Anderson's Recreations in Agriculture 3 61 Paul Reynolds Benjamin Outram's Minutes 3 62 Paul Reynolds T.G. Cumming, Illustrations of the Origin and Progress of Rail and Tram Roads 4 63 Grahame Boyes The tramroads of Poynton collieries, Cheshire 1 64 John van Laun Rutways in the Mediterranean: a preliminary inventory 4 65 John van Laun Tramroad studies: an extension of interests (Photograph of peat-hauling on wooden monorail, c.1915) 1 65a Roger Kidner Mono-rails and other unusual railways 1 65b Harry Paar Not too early wooden railways in Australia and Canada 2 66 Roger Kidner Chirk Castle and the tramroads 3 67 Harry Paar The Purton Pill Steam Carriage Road: review of a new book Harry Paar Curves and brakes 3 69 Grahame Boyes The Pest-Kobanya railway, P W Sowan Further information on underground plateways at Godstone, Surrey 3 71 M W Keef/ How were horse-drawn wagons braked on a tramroad? H W Paar Further correspondence between M.W. Keef and H.W. Paar 2 71a Brian Lamb Horse-drawn waggon brakes: how? Evidence from the Peak Forest Tramway 2 72 Kenneth Brown Dram Roads (extract from Railway Magazine, March/April 1944) Paul Reynolds et al Canal tramroads at Tardebigge, Worcestershire 5 74 Paul Reynolds (Miscellaneous comment and information) 2 75 Brian Lamb The Peak Forest Tramroad on a cigarette card 1 76 P M Hughes A fresh look at the canal and tramroads in the region of Tremadog 4 77 Roger Kidner William Chapman's plateway locomotives 1 78 Paul Reynolds (Miscellaneous comment and information) 1 79 Matthew Searle The Baxter collection [An update of paper 43, describing material deposited at Birmingham] 2

4 Harry Paar Some recent publications 1 81 Paul Reynolds Miscellaneous (including a partial circulation of a list of tramroad and railway opening dates received from the Railway Chronology Group and a note on early wooden railways in Cumbria) 4 82 P M Hughes A quarry wagon wheel (a discovery at Gorseddau quarry, north Wales) 1 83 Roger Kidner South Wales tramroads in letters (material from the National Library of Wales) 2 84 Paul Reynolds Tramroad conservation in south Wales (press reports etc.) Grahame Boyes Railway Bills not enacted, Paul Reynolds (Miscellaneous comment and information) 3 87 Roger Kidner Wooden plateways in New Zealand? 1 88 Philip Scowcroft The tramroads of the River Don limestone quarries 2 89 J R Thomas The Latchcraft wooden way: was it the first in Flintshire? 3 90 John van Laun Rutways at Agrigento, Sicily 2 91 Harry Paar Tramroad wheels in the Forest of Dean 2 91a Angus Watkins/Harry Paar Trucks versus waggons Paul Reynolds Miscellaneous news and reports 2 93 Bill Bleasdale Lancaster Canal Tramroad bridge, Preston 2 94 Roger Kidner Crawshay Bailey in the Aman Valley 2 95 P J G Ransom The Lancaster Canal Tramroad and the earliest steam-powered inclined planes 2 96 Harry Jack Stone sleepers without holes 3 96a Harry Paar Stone sleepers without holes: a comment on Harry Paar An early source (Encyclopaedia Londinensis ) 1 98 Harry Jack A wooden waggonway in east Fife 2 99 Roger Kidner Tramroad gauges (Comment on a query in an earlier members' circular) Tony Jervis Halbeath Tramroad, Fife. Pt. I R J Haydon Cosher Bailey again: some notes on tramroad songs and engines Michael Lewis Stone sleepers without holes Michael Lewis Trucks versus waggons John van Laun Fluxing quarries in the south Wales iron belt [map] 2 104a John van Laun Fluxing quarries on the northern outcrop [additional] Michael Hale The Graigola Tramroad Michael Lewis Railway gauges at Ffestiniog Angus Watkins Crawshay Bailey: a plea for correctness Tim Edmonds Ticknall Tramway, April Paul Reynolds Samuel Homfray's coal trains: the Sirhowy Railway in

5 110 Michael Lewis Bogie waggons on Welsh tramroads Brian Lamb The Peak Forest Canal Company quarry wagon "174" in the National Railway Museum at York Hugh Compton A mysterious tramroad wagon Roger Kidner The Middlebere Tramroad, Dorset Tim Edmonds The Mineral Tramways Discovery Centre [Cornwall] P J G Ransom Origins of the bogie Harry Paar Bogie wagons on Welsh tramroads Michael Lewis Origins of the bogie Harry Paar A wooden railway in Australia: addendum to 'Occasional Paper' 65b Alec Pope Twelve-wheeled tramroad wagons: some thoughts Paul Reynolds A haunted tramroad [Parsons' Folly, Neath] Tim Edmonds The Belvoir Castle Railway - March John van Laun Combined tie-bars and chairs for use underground C A Watkins A tie-bar from Bailey's Daren Disgwylfa Tramroad? Derek Bayliss Was the Surrey Iron Railway the first public railway? Michael Hale Applications to the Monmouthshire Canal Company for tramroads Harry Paar Forest of Dean tramroads: some recent publications John Wooldridge Exploring the Trubshaw Railway Roger Kidner More on cast iron sleepers Brian Lamb Captain Booth's dry bread tramway (Convict-powered tramroad intasmania) Brian Lamb The Duke of Bridgwater's Canal Works - transcribed by Brian Lamb from Abraham Rees's Cyclopaedia Angus Watkins Was the Bicslade Tramroad nationalised in 1947? R. Ross Cunningham Remains of an early railway at Portpatrick Allan Brackenbury Comments on 'Occasional Papers' 124 and Roger Kidner Passenger carriages on tramroads Paul Reynolds International Early Railways Conference, Durham, September Allan Brackenbury Tramroads and railways to the Macclesfield Canal Allan Brackenbury The route of the Congleton Railway Andy Guy/ Joseph Tregelles Price on tramroad practice in south Wales: a Paul Reynolds letter of 1818 transcribed by Andy Guy; notes by Paul Reynolds Paul Reynolds The 1819 locomotive on Scott's railway, Llansamlet, Swansea: further evidence Paul Reynolds Underground wooden channel rails at Llansamlet in the 18th century Harry Paar Sir Richard Phillips, A Dictionary of the Arts of Life and Civilization (London : Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, c1834) 2

6 142 Harry Paar/ Charles E. Lee, The Evolution of Railways Michael Lewis (Railway Gazette, 1937) (Ottley 216) Harry Paar Early portable tramroads Colin Chapman The Duffryn Llynvi and Porth Cawl Railway: gauge and mixed gauge Grahame Boyes The guide-wheel railway system of Joseph von Baader Grahame Boyes Collieries and early railways in the north-east: guide to primary research sources (to c.1830) John Heath The Aston-on-Trent tramway Tim Edmonds Some current research into Maltese rutways Roger Kidner Another wooden railway (Invercargill, New Zealand) Paul Reynolds John Thomas's painting of Homfray's coal trains now restored Harry Paar/ Definitions of early railway terms 2 Paul Reynolds Tim Edmonds Milestones of the Hay Railway Harry Paar Review of B L Jackson, Isle of Portland railways. Vol David Bick Some thoughts on the design of permanent way Roger Kidner Queries on a pioneer U.S. railroad [Mauch Chunk] Paul Reynolds Tramroad locomotives in south Wales Paul Reynolds Two otherwise unknown locomotives on the Sirhowy Tramroad Harry Paar An echo of the Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway Michael Lewis Tramroad locomotives in south Wales: addenda and corrigenda Michael Lewis/ Locomotives on the Sirhowy Tramroad in Paul Reynolds 161 Harry Paar et al. Tramroad locomotives in south Wales: addenda and corrigenda Stephen Rowson Steam on Sir Christopher Smith's tramroad Stephen Rowson When did the Merthyr Tramroad become the Penydarren Tramroad? David E.M. Lindsay Waggonways of Scotland Harry Paar The Mauch Chunk and Allegheny Portage Railroads (U.S.A.) Alec Pope A few thoughts about the John Thomas painting of trams on the Sirhowy Railway at Pillgwenlly, Ian Pope A few further thoughts about the John Thomas painting of trams on the Sirhowy Railway at Pillgwenlly, Paul Reynolds Some press reports of Monmouthshire tramroad locomotives in the 1830s John van Laun Crawshay Bailey's engine again Mike Chapman A Somerset gravestone Michael Lewis/ A proposed railway at Merthyr Tydfil, John van Laun 172 David Gwyn John Thomas's Plain Representation 3

7 Paul Reynolds Review of Raymond E. Bowen, The Burry Port and Gwendreath Valley Railway and its Antecedent Canals. Volume 1, The Canals (Oakwood Press, 2001) John van Laun Still in search of the first all-iron rail: the textile connection Alan Robinson Some thoughts on Mr Chaster's Tramroad John van Laun John Thomas's Plain Representation: the horses Roger Kidner The last significant plateway? David Gwyn Early wrought-iron rails at Hafodlas quarry, Nantlle Michael Lewis George Overton on tramroads and railways Michael Lewis An American in Pontypool, Harry Paar Old catalogues of early railway literature John van Laun Early railways at Wilsontown ironworks, south Lanarkshire (NS ) Michael Lewis A primitive railway in China John Liffen The discovery of a manuscript version dated 1795 of John Curr's The Coal Viewer (1797) T P Cooper The Hamstead tramway Paul Reynolds George Bush's Alltwen railroad Michael Lewis A new type of cast-iron rail A milepost from the Caerleon tramroad Paul Reynolds A waggon lift at Edinburgh in 1824? John Wooldridge In the footsteps of Bertram Baxter: 1. Gleedon Hill tramroad, Shropshire Paul Reynolds A further note on wind power, supplementing that in the circular of April Martin Fairbrother/ John Curr's The Coal Viewer and the introduction John Liffen of his iron plate railways Michael Lewis A sixteenth-century railway painting Michael Lewis The earliest railway bridges 3

8 195 John Wooldridge In the footsteps of Bertram Baxter: 2. Tarbatch Dingle tramroad John Wooldridge In the footsteps of Bertram Baxter: 3. Benthall Railway, Shropshire John Wooldridge In the footsteps of Bertram Baxter: 4. North Stafford Railway or Consall Plateway, Staffordshire Andy Guy Sails, rails and Quakers Tim Edmonds Early experiments with interlocking concrete sleepers Michael Lewis Curr, Butler and Outram: the childhood of the plateway Don Steggles/ The Monmouthshire Canal Company tramroad trials, 1849 Michael Lewis (annotations by Michael Lewis) John Wooldridge In the footsteps of Bertram Baxter: 5: Sutton Wharf Tramroad, Shropshire Stephen Rowson Celebrating the Doctor s Tramroad Tim Edmonds Cornish Update: the Mineral Tramways Discovery Centre and Tramway Trails Tim Edmonds The Portreath Tramroad two hundred years on Stephen Rowson Another Blue Plaque for a tramroad site in South Wales Michael Lewis Wheels to Newcastle: waggonway materials from the New Forest around Pre-Construct Harraton Waggonway 2 Archaeology Ltd 209 Michael Lewis Nineteenth-century newspapers online Paul Reynolds A bit of excitement on the Monmouthshire Canal tramroad Michael Lewis How did the plateway cross the road? Paul Reynolds Caldbeck Mine: a query Michael Lewis A locomotive might-have-been Paul Reynolds The origins of railway passenger traffic Andy Guy and Cleaning plateways 2 Stephen Rowson Andy Guy Brunton and Boilers Paul Murray Thompson Matthew Murray s locomotive design for the Stockton & Darlington Railway: an addendum to OP Andy Guy A journey on the Kilmarnock & Troon in Paul Reynolds The Birmingham & Liverpool Railway Andy Guy Wooden waggonways to Stella Andy Guy Billy and Dilly at Wylam Martyn Taylor-Cockayne Josias Jessop s Railways Observed 6

9 Paul Reynolds An early waggonway in the lower Swansea valley Michael Lewis A wooden waggonway wash hole at Wallsend Michael Lewis A South Wales railroad in Grahame Boyes Some early Early Railway enthusiasts Grahame Boyes NER hanging buffers and the Tanfield Branchs curved inclines Grahame Boyes A late survivor of the Surrey Iron Railway Andy Guy The Czar of Russia and a London waggonway 7