It is intended that a Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the History of Railways in the British Isles, compiled from the
annual bibliographies published in the Society’s Journal since 1985 with some later amendments and additions, will in due
course be made available on this website. This will complement Ottley’s Bibliography of books.
Meanwhile, as a trial and to coincide with the Fourth International Early Railways Conference, here is an extract from it.
However, whereas the bibliography does not generally extend back before 1979, this extract includes many earlier articles
noted by members of the Society’s Tramroad Group. Comments on it are invited and should be sent to
bibliography@rchs.org.uk.
EARLY RAILWAYS : A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE
The scope of this bibliography may be described as the era of the industrial tramroads, usually horse-worked, operated as an
adjunct to another enterprise, such as mining or a canal, built up to about 1830–35. It excludes the early examples of the
modern public railway, invariably at least partially locomotive-worked and therefore of heavier construction, that emerged
with the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1825, but it does include a few examples of plateways of later construction.
It is classified under the following headings
General;
Early railway track generally; Locomotives pre-1825
Early railways ― South West Region
Forest of Dean; Avon & Gloucestershire and Bristol & Gloucestershire Railways; Gloucester & Cheltenham Railway
and Leckhampton Plateway; Bath stone quarries
Early railways ― South East Region
Offham Chalkpit Tramway, Sussex; Surrey Iron and Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Railways; Purfleet Railway,
Essex
Early railways ― West Midlands Region
Coalbrookdale and the upper Severn valley
Early railways ― East Midlands Region
Belvoir Castle Railway; Little Eaton Gangway; Peak Forest Railway
Early railways ― North West Region
Early railways ― Yorkshire
Middleton Colliery Railway
Early railways ― North Region
Cumberland; Wearside; Tyneside
Early railways ― Scotland
Kilmarnock & Troon Railway
Early railways ― Wales
Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire; Oystermouth Railway / Swansea & Mumbles Railway; Penydarren / Merthyr
Tramroad; Monmouthshire and Brecknockshire; North Wales
Rutways
Haytor Granite Tramroad
Suspension railways
General
ACHARD, FERDINAND and SEGUIN, LAURENT. British railways of 1825 as seen by Marc Seguin. Trans Newcomen Soc.
vol. 7 (1927) pp. 63–7.
BLEASDALE, R. E. M. A history of early waggon and rail ways. Rly Mag. vol. 69 (1931) pp. 351–63.
SMITH, RICHARD S. Huntingdon Beaumont, adventurer in coalmines. Renaissance & Modern Studies vol. 1 (1957) pp. 115–
53.
Beaumont is credited with laying down the first wooden railway in England.
GEISE, JOHN. What is a railway? Technology & Culture vol. 1 (1959) pp. 68–77.
SMITH, RICHARD S. England’s first rails: a reconsideration. Renaissance & Modern Studies vol. 4 (1960) pp. 119–34.
Re-examines all the known documentary evidence for early 17th century wooden railways in Nottinghamshire, Shropshire
and Northumberland.
CHRISTIAN, ROY. Pioneer of horse-drawn railways. Country Life vol. 131 (1962) pp. 1194, 1197.
Benjamin Outram.
MOTT, R. A. English waggonways of the eighteenth century. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 37 (1964–5) pp. 1–33.
MOTT, R. A. Tramroads of the eighteenth century and their originator: John Curr. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 42 (1969–70)
pp. 1–23.
‘Tramroads’ here refers to plateways. See also LIFFEN, JOHN, The discovery of a manuscript version dated 1795 of John
Currs’s The Coal Viewer (1797) [Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. occasional paper no. 184] (2008): ‘Mott’s 1969 Newcomen paper
remains a detailed and informative account of John Curr’s life and work, but his preference for 1778 for the introduction of
plate rails must now be finally set aside.’
HATLEY, VICTOR A. The poet and the railway surveyors: an incident in the life of John Clare. Northamptonsh. Past &
Present vol. 5 (1973–7) pp. 101–6.
The London Northern Rail Road scheme of 1824–5.
A COMPARISON between canals and horse-drawn railways. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 23 (1977) pp. 64–5.
Their relative construction costs and loads that can be drawn by a horse. Repr. from the Sheffield Mercury 26 March 1825.
THOMAS, R. H. G. The first Railway Mania. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 27 (1981–3) pp. 241–3.
In 1824.
RUTHERFORD, MICHAEL. In the beginning. [Railway reflections.] BackTrack vol. 11 (1997) pp. 539–45.
The development of the railway and the locomotive up to 1830.
GWYN, DAVID. Tredegar, Newcastle, Baltimore: the swivel truck as paradigm of technology transfer. Technology & Culture
vol. 45 (2004) pp. 778–94.
Development and spread of bogie vehicles on tramroads and early railways.
NEW, JOHN. 400 years of English railways: Huntingdon Beaumont and the early years. BackTrack vol. 18 (2004) pp. 660–5.
BAILEY, MICHAEL. The history of tracks and trains: a lesson in joined-up thinking. Proc. Instn Civil Engrs, Civil Engg vol.
158 (2005) pp. 134–42.
How the development of the steam loco & its infrastructure proceeded in parallel.
LEWIS, MICHAEL. George Overton on tramroads and railways. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 35 (2005–7) pp. 322–36.
Repr. of the principal sections of text from Overton’s Description (1825), with a biographical introduction and an appendix
on Overton’s involvement with the Plymouth & Dartmoor Rly.
Early railway track (generally)
LEE, CHARLES E. Early turntables. Rly Mag. vol. 84 (1930) pp. 450–2.
Smeaton’s design of a wooden turntable from A narrative of the building and description of the construction of the
Edystone Lighthouse with stone (1791).
BLAND, FRED. The genesis of permanent way. Edgar Allen News Jly 1935 pp. 677–9.
RIDEN, P. J. Outram’s ‘Minutes to be observed in the construction of railways’. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 18 (1972) pp.
61–4.
Reprint of the text originally published in 1801, with introductory notes.
RIDEN, P. J. The Butterley Company and railway construction, 1790–1830. Transport History vol. 6 (1973) pp. 30–52.
Supply of cast-iron rails and other components, and construction of railways, by Benjamin Outram & Co. (the Butterley
Company from 1805).
TRAMROAD gauges. Indl Rly Record no. 65 (Apr. 1976) p. 217; 72 (Aug. 1977) p. 85; 75 (Feb. 1978) p. 186.
A series of correspondence on the definition of the gauge of a plateway.
BOYES, GRAHAME. Origin of the standard gauge. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 27 (1981–3) pp. 214–5.
Comparison with the standard gauge of British army gun carriages (1757).
CORMACK, TONY. Standard gauge: the definitive answer. North Eastern Express vol. 33 (1994) pp. 30–2.
The origins of the 4ft 8½in. gauge.
TAVENDER, LEN. The origins of standard gauge. Historical Model Rly Soc. Jnl vol. 17 (2000–2) pp. 311–12, 391, 455, 498.
Locomotives pre-1825
The CENTENARY of the railway locomotive. Locomotive 12 Feb. 1904 pp. 26–9.
LINKS in the history of the locomotive. Engr vol. 109 (1910) pp. 432–3, 110 (1910) p. 564.
Blenkinsop designs.
APPLEBY MILLER, R. N. The first tug-boat. Smith’s Dock Jnl vol. 10 (1929) pp. 249–52.
Adaptation of a Wylam loco. Earlier version as: Hedley’s amphibious locomotive in Edgar Allen News Apr. 1928.
BLENKINSOP engine relics. Engineering vol. 127 (1929) p. 453.
Locos at Kenton & Coxlodge collieries.
FORWARD, E. A. Blenkinsop locomotives at the Kenton and Coxlodge collieries 1813–1815. [Links in the history of the
locomotive.] Engr vol. 149 (1930) pp. 94–5, 128–9.
APPLEBY MILLER, R. N. George Stephenson’s first experiment. [Links in the history of the locomotive.] Engr vol. 152
(1931) pp. 298–9.
MASON, W. W. Trevithick’s first rail locomotive. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 12 (1932) pp. 85–103.
APPLEBY MILLER, R. N. The ‘Newburn’ wheels, or, relics of a forgotten railway enterprise of 1813–1815. Edgar Allen
News vol. 18 (1939) pp. 473–6.
Blenkinsop locos at Kenton & Coxlodge collieries.
APPLEBY MILLER, R. N. George Stephenson’s first locomotive. Stephenson Loco. Soc. Jnl vol. 18 (1942) pp. 30–2.
TWINING, E. W. The first railway locomotive. Rly Mag. vol. 97 (1951) pp. 197–201.
Trevithick’s Penydarren loco of 1804.
FORWARD, E. A. Trevithick’s first railway locomotive: Coalbrookdale, 1802–3. [Links in the history of the locomotive.] Engr
vol. 193 (1952) pp. 266–8, 347, 442, 475.
LEE, CHARLES E. The steam locomotive in 1812. Rly Mag. vol. 108 (1962) pp. 426–8.
TONKIN, S. MORLEY. Trevithick, Rastrick and the Hazeldine Foundry, Bridgnorth. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 26 (1947–9)
pp. 171–83.
MULHOLLAND, PETER. The first locomotive in Whitehaven. Cumbrian Rlys Circular vol. 1 (1976–9) no. 7 pp. 10–12.
Re-examines the story of the trial of a loco designed by Taylor Swainson on the Croft Pit Waggonway in 1812; concludes
that it was built at Whitehaven in 1817 under Swainson’s supervision, but to Chapman’s patent.
——repr. Indl Rly Record no. 75 (Feb. 1978) pp. 177–9.
CHARLTON, L. G. The Steam Elephant. Stephenson Loco. Soc. Jnl vol. 56 (1980) pp. 330–2.
Loco designed by Wm Chapman for the Lambton collieries 1814 and rebuilt 1820 by John Buddle for the Heaton colliery.
OWEN-JONES, STUART. Trevithick rides again. Rly Mag. vol. 127 (1981) pp. 374–5, 550–1.
The background to the construction of the replica of Trevithick’s Penydarren loco of 1804.
ELLIS, GEORGE. The Coalbrookdale locomotive: a cast iron travelling engine without frames. Hist. Model Rly Soc. Jnl vol.
11 (1982–4) pp. 44–51, 126, 156.
c.1803.
ELLIS, GEORGE. Trevithick’s last locomotive. Hist. Model Rly Soc. Jnl vol. 12 (1985–7) pp. 361–3.
Was Catch Me Who Can Richard Trevithick’s last loco?
DAGLISH, RICHARD. A Yorkshire Horse. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 31 (1993–5) pp. 123–31.
The Blenkinsop patent locos built by Robert Daglish for the Orrell Colliery, 1812–16.
RUTHERFORD, MICHAEL. Heroes, villains and ordinary men. [Provocations.] BackTrack vol. 9 (1995) pp. 528–34.
The historiography of early loco engineers.
BARNES, ROBIN. Coalbrookdale & Penydarren revisited: a bi-centennial note. BackTrack vol. 17 (2003) pp. 492–6, 554–7,
622–6; 18 (2004) p. 188.
Trevithick locos.
ADDYMAN, J. F. Richard Trevithick’s influence on early locomotive development in the north east of England. North
Eastern Express vol. 44 (2005) pp. 27–9.
CLARK, E. F. A missed connection? Links: the bulletin of the Newcomen Soc. no. 194 (June 2005) pp. 12–14.
Between Trevithick’s Catch-Me-Who-Can and the Middleton Rly.
HILL, NORMAN. Timothy Hackworth’s essential place in early locomotive development. North Eastern Express vol. 45
(2006) pp. 39–45.
Early railways ― South West Region
A FLANGE railway in North Cornwall. Rly Mag. vol. 51 (1922) pp. 73–4.
The Bude sand rly, a 4ft gauge plateway for carrying sand from the beach to the Bude Harbour & Canal.
RAILWAY relics in West Cornwall. Rly Mag. vol. 79 (1936) pp. 142–3; 84 (1939) p. 415.
The Poldice Tramway (1809) and its preserved inspection carriage.
WILLIAMS, B. Y. and LEE, CHARLES E. The Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 74 (1934) pp. 179–83, 422–
3, 457–8; 80 (1937) pp. 217–18.
HALL, R. M. S. The Lee Moor Tramway. Rly World vol. 22 (1961) pp. 318–21, 346–8.
ELTON, ARTHUR. The pre-history of railways with particular reference to the early quarry railways of North Somerset.
Somersetsh. Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. Proc. vol. 107 (1963) pp. 31–59.
BLUHM, R. K. The Radstock branch of the Somerset Coal Canal, with a note on William Ashman’s locomotive. Indl Arch.
vol. 3 (1966) pp. 245–50.
Includes the Radstock Tramway.
GILSON, R. G. and QUARTLEY, G. W. Some technical aspects of the Somerset Coal Canal tramways. Indl Arch. vol. 5
(1968) pp. 140–4, 153–61.
MESSENGER, M. J. Early Cornish mineral railways. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 22 (1976) pp. 74–8.
20 lines listed from the period 1808–30.
——repr. with an amending note. Jnl Trevithick Soc. no. 5 (1977) pp. 70–5.
PAAR, H. W. The Redbrook tramroad incline, in the Wye Valley. Gloucestersh. Indl Arch. Soc. Jnl 1977–8 pp. 30–3.
Monmouth Rly.
POPPLEWELL, LAWRENCE. The tunnels of the Middlebere plateway, Purbeck, Dorset. Bulln Subterranea Britannica no. 16
(1982) p. 9.
LEWIS, C. A. Tyrwhitt’s North Devon wharf. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries vol. 35 pt. 7 (Spr. 1985) pp. 256–7.
A correction to H. G. Kendall, The Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway (1968), Jean Hall, Railway landmarks in Devon (1982)
and Eric Hemery, Walking the Dartmoor railroads (1983).
SMITH-GROGAN, G. The Portreath Tram Road Company. Indl Rly Record no. 131 (Dec. 1992) pp. 68–71; 135 (Dec. 1993)
pp. 238–9; 137 (June 1994) p. 320; 141 (June 1995) p. 484.
Brief history of the line, also known as the Poldice Tramroad, 1809–84.
AYLMER, AUDREY. History revealed: the Neet breaks its banks, December 1999. Old Cornwall vol. 12 no. 9 (2001) pp. 33–
6.
Sand tramway on Bude beach temporarily revealed.
CROSBIE-HILL, BILL. The Caen Hill horse railway. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 34 (2002–4) pp. 358–63, 482–3, 633–5.
Temporary railway linking Devizes to the partly-completed Kennet & Avon Canal, 1802–1810.
SHEPHERD, ERIC. The Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway. [Vanished railways of Dartmoor, pt 2.] Dartmoor Mag. no. 72 (Aut.
2003) pp. 22–3.
――The Lee Moor Tramway. [pt 6.] no. 76 (Aut. 2004) p. 25.
Forest of Dean
MORRIS, T. E. R. The Forest of Dean tramroads. Locomotive vol. 37 (1931) pp. 26–9, 59–60, 96–7, 128–30.
DOWN, C. G. Narrow gauge wagons: the Bixslade Tramroad. Indl Rly Record no. 77 (June 1978) pp. 248–9.
PAAR, H. W. Parkend’s covered way. Forest Venturer [Dean Forest Rly Presrvn Soc.] no. 27 [1978] pp. 4–7.
The bridge across the Severn & Wye Rly that gave access for tramroad wagons to the top of the Parkend blast furnaces.
CLISSOLD, GORDON and STANDING, IAN. Mr Teague’s railway: some new information. Gloucestersh. Soc. for Indl Arch.
Jnl 1980 pp. 51–60.
Supplements the account in H. W. Paar, The Great Western Railway in Dean (1965).
BROWN, A. An account of the Bullo Pill Tramroad railway 1809–1872. Gloucestersh. Local Hist. Bulln no. 44 (Aut. 1981)
pp. 13–18.
STANDING, IAN. Forest of Dean tramroads: some notes on construction & rail. Gloucestersh. Soc. for Indl Arch. Jnl 1982
pp. 43–7; 1983 p. 1.
Remains of trackbed, sleeper blocks & rails of Teague’s tramroad and the Monmouth Rly.
STATHAM, IAN. Bullo Pill Tramroad: an exposure near Bilson. Gloucestersh. Soc. for Indl Arch. Jnl 1982 pp. 35–7.
Excavation of track remains.
ANSTIS, RALPH. The Birch Hill tramroad. New Regard of the Forest of Dean no. 2 (1986) pp. 52–5.
A short 20th cent. plateway, using steel rails on stone blocks, in the Forest of Dean, probably for carrying stone.
ANSTIS, RALPH. The Teague tramroads. New Regard of the Forest of Dean no. 3 (1987) pp. 4–24.
Tramroads built by James Teague for carrying coal from his pit to Lydbrook on the R. Wye, 1795–1815.
STANDING, IAN. The industrial heritage of Bixhead and Bixslade in the Forest of Dean. Gloucestersh. Soc. for Indl Arch. Jnl
1987 pp. 17–32.
Refs to, & maps of various dates showing, the Bicslade tramroad of the Severn & Wye Rly.
POPE, IAN. The Bicslade tramroad. New Regard [Forest of Dean Local Hist. Soc.] no. 13 (1998) pp. 20–38.
3ft 8in. gauge plateway branch of the Severn & Wye Rly, built 1812.
YOULES, TONY. Tramroad remains in the Forest of Dean. Gloucestershire Soc. for Indl. Arch Jnl 2000 pp. 19–26; 2002 pp.
37–43.
A survey undertaken for the Sites & Monuments Record of Gloucestershire County Council.
JOHNS, BRIAN. Brockaditches. New Regard [Forest of Dean Local Hist. Soc.] vol. 17 (2002) pp. 19–30.
Study of an area near Parkend, incl. remains of a tramroad branch of the Severn & Wye Rly.
Avon & Gloucestershire and Bristol & Gloucestershire Railways
TREW, A. R. F. The old Bristol and Gloucestershire Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 25 (1909) pp. 452–9.
Includes the Avon & Gloucestershire Rly.
BAXTER, B. The Avon and Gloucestershire Tramroad as it is today. Rly Mag. vol. 71 (1932) pp. 431–4; 72 (1933) pp. 149,
298; 74 (1934) pp. 149, 302–3.
GENTRY, P. W. The Bristol coal tramroads. Railways vol. 13 (1952) pp. 182–5, 210.
The Avon & Gloucestershire and Bristol & Gloucestershire Rlys.
CLINKER, C. R. The Avon and Gloucestershire Railway. Bristol Indl Arch. Soc. Jnl vol. 14 (1982) pp. 22–4.
BARBER, ROSS. The dramway. Avon Conservation News no. 21 (Sept. 1985) pp. 10–11.
THOMAS, KEITH. Wagons of the A.& G. Dramway. Bristol Indl Arch. Soc. Jnl vol. 21 (1989) pp. 23–7.
THOMAS, KEITH. Discoveries in Poplar Road. Bristol Indl Arch. Soc. Jnl vol. 22 (1990) pp. 3–4.
Avon & Gloucestershire Rly chairs & stone block sleepers uncovered.
PIMPERNELL, JIM. An archaeological survey of Avon Wharf, Bitton, South Gloucestershire. BIAS Jnl (Bristol Indl Arch.
Soc.) no. 39 (2006) pp. 4–20.
Gloucester & Cheltenham Railway and Leckhampton Plateway
KLAPPER, C. F. The Leckhampton flange railway. Rly Mag. vol. 49 (1921) p. 349.
—— The Leckhampton and Gloucester tramroad. Rly Mag. vol. 51 (1922) p. 472–3.
BAXTER, B. The route of the Gloucester & Cheltenham Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 99 (1953) pp. 117–21, 133.
BICK, D. E. An early Gloucestershire Railway. Newsltr Gloucestershire Soc. for Indl Arch. no. 5 (July 1965) pp. 32–6.
The Gloucester & Cheltenham Rly.
BICK, D. E. Tramplates of the Gloucester & Cheltenham Railway. Indl Arch. vol. 3 (1966) pp. 201–8.
BICK, D. E. The tramroad inclines of Leckhampton Hill. Newsltr Gloucestershire Soc. for Indl Arch. no. 10 (Aug. 1967) pp.
17, 19–21.
CONWAY-JONES, HUGH. The excavation of a tramroad siding at Gloucester Docks. Gloucestersh. Soc. for Indl Arch. Jnl
1983 pp. 38–42.
Remains of the Gloucester & Cheltenham Tramroad.
WILSON, RAY. The industrial archaeology of Leckhampton Hill. Gloucestershire Soc. for Indl Arch. Jnl 2001 pp. 35–46;
2002 pp. 64–6.
Includes tramroads and inclines.
Bath stone quarries
WARREN, J. G. H. An eighteenth-century railway at Bath. Proc. Somerset Arch. Soc. vol. 74 (1928) pp. 150–1.
ELLIS, GEORGE. Prior Park tramway: an early industrial gravity line at Bath in Avon. Hist. Model Rly Soc. Jnl vol. 11
(1982–4) pp. 238–43.
POLLARD, DAVID. Bath stone quarry railways 1795–1830. Bristol Indl Arch. Soc. Jnl vol. 15 (1983) pp. 13–19.
BREAKSPEAR, MIKE. Firs and Byfield stone mines, Combe Down, Bath. Jnl Cerberus Spelaeological Soc. vol. 22 (1994)
pp. 94–100.
Underground quarries begun by Ralph Allen, with some details of his inclined tramway linking them to the R. Avon.
Early railways ― South East Region
Offham Chalkpit Tramway, Sussex
An inclined plane connecting the Offham chalk pits to the Papermill Cut from the Sussex Ouse Navigation (1809)
ROBBINS, MICHAEL. The first Sussex railway. Rly Mag. vol. 117 (1971) pp. 355–7, 505.
EVANS, TOM. George Shiffner and the Offham Chalkpit Tramway. Sussex Indl Hist. no. 15 (1985–6) pp. 15–17.
——MARTIN, R. G. The Offham Chalkpit Tramway and incline: a survey and description. Sussex Indl Hist. no. 15 (1985–6)
pp. 11–15.
Both papers repr. in Indl Arch. Review vol. 9 (1986–7) pp. 189–94.
Surrey Iron and Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Railways
[PALEY, W. B?] The early railways of Surrey. Engr vol. 89 (1900) pp. 7–8, 57–8.
BING, F. G. The Grand Surrey Iron Railway. Proc. Croydon Natural Hist. & Scientific Soc. vol. 10 (1927–9) pp. 74–93.
LEE, CHARLES E. Early railways in Surrey. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 21 (1940–1) pp. 49–79.
CROYDON Canal tramway. Rly Mag. vol. 93 (1947) p. 184.
Linked the canal basin at Croydon to the Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Rly’s depot.
The ROUTE of the C.M. & G. R. Rly Mag. vol. 93 (1947) pp. 185, 253–6.
――SURREY Iron Railway. vol. 93 (1947) pp. 327–9.
――The WORLD’S first public railway. vol. 94 (1950) pp. 134–5.
Each article includes detailed route maps.
TOWNSEND, CHARLES E. C. Further notes on early railways in Surrey. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 27 (1949–51) pp. 51–68.
LANE, A. W. The Surrey Iron Railway: the first public railway. Proc. Croydon Natural Hist. & Scientific Soc. vol. 12 (1956–
8) pp. 276–80.
GRAVETT, K. W. E. and WOOD, ERIC S. Merstham limeworks. Surrey Arch. Collns vol. 64 (1967) pp. 124–47.
The opening of the Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Rly stimulated considerable expansion of the limeworks.
THARBY, W. G. The world’s first public railway. Local History Records [Bourne Soc.] vol. 7 (1968) pp. 26–8.
Excavations on course of Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Rly.
[THARBY, WILLIAM G.] The gauge of the Surrey Iron Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 113 (1967) pp. 465–6.
DENTON, D. T. The Grand Surrey Iron Railway. Pelobates vol. 5 (1968) pp. 14–15.
THARBY, W. G. Merstham: the Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Railway (TQ 299539). Surrey Arch. Collns vol. 65 (1968)
p. 121.
Brief report of excavation of a length of track, which enabled the gauge of this rly and the Surrey Iron Rly to be definitely
established as 4ft 6in. between centres of locating pins.
BEAN, K. W. Plate rails at Godstone. Indl. Arch. vol. 7 (1970) pp. 160, 184–9.
Details of rails found in an underground quarry at Quarry Dean, near Godstone, Surrey.
MONTAGUE, E. N. Wheels from the Surrey Iron Railway found at Mitcham. Surrey Arch. Collns vol. 68 (1971) p. 183.
THARBY, W. G. The Surrey Iron Railway. Surrey vol. 6 (1971) pp. 100–4.
LANE, PHILIP. Croydon, Merstham and Godstone discoveries. Rly World vol. 33 (1972) pp. 354–5.
SHENTON, J. Merstham: Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Railway, Quarry Dene. Surrey Arch. Soc. Bulln no. 89 (1972) pp.
5–6.
GRAY, ADRIAN. The decline of the Merstham tramway. Brighton Circular 1976 pp. 33–5.
The end of the Croydon, Merstham & Godstone tramroad, 1836–43.
BAYLISS, DEREK A. The Surrey Iron. Rly Mag. vol. 124 (1978) pp. 328–31.
SOWAN, P. W. The Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Railway’s projected but unbuilt extensions to Reigate and Godstone.
Brockham News new ser. vol. 3 (1979) pp. 2–4.
——repr. in Newsltr, Unit 2 Cave Research & Exploration 1979 no. 1 pp. 9–11.
OSBORNE, BRUCE E. Early plateways and firestone mining in Surrey: an interim report. Proc. Croydon Natural Hist. &
Scientific Soc. vol. 17 (1981–8) pp. 73–88.
Plate rails of the Surrey Iron Rly, Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Iron Rly, and associated quarry tramways.
SOWAN, PAUL W. The southern terminus of the Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Railway. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol.
27 (1981–3) pp. 159–67.
BURGESS, PETER. Quarrying tools and other artefacts from Chaldon and Merstham quarries, Surrey. Bulln. Subterranea
Britannica no. 23 (1987) pp. 26–9.
Incl. underground haulage in these 17th/18th cent. mines & possible remains of an early tramway wagon.
KIRKPATRICK, GRAHAM. The Surrey Iron Railway. Rlys South East vol. 1 (1987–9) pp. 157–9.
BURGESS, PETER. The use of plate rails in the Godstone firestone quarries. Proc. Croydon Natural Hist. & Scientific Soc.
vol. 18 no. 4 (1994) pp. 102–7.
Incl. rails from the Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Iron Rly and rutways.
BAYLISS, DEREK. Was the Surrey Iron Railway the first public railway? Croydon Natural Hist. & Scientific Soc. Bulln no.
102 (Mar. 1997) pp. 2–3.
The case for the Lake Lock Railroad being the first is in no. 110 (Mar. 2000) pp. 5–6.
SOWAN, PAUL W. The modern world begins for Croydon! 200th anniversary of the Surrey Iron Railway. Newsltr Surrey
Indl Hist. Group no. 132 (2003) pp. 14–18.
SOWAN, PAUL W. The Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Iron Railway: a new solution (in 1805) to an old problem. Newsltr
Surrey Indl Hist. Grp no. 145 (2005) pp. 7–8.
SOWAN, PAUL W. The Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Iron Railway: a short chapter in a long story. Local History Records
[Bourne Soc.] vol. 45 (2006) pp. 53–71.
SOWAN, PAUL. The Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Iron Railway reaches Reigate at last ― about two centuries late.
Brighton Circular vol. 32 (2006) pp. 134–5.
Rails etc preserved.
——repr. in Indl Heritage vol. 32 no. 1 (Smr 2006) pp. 15–17.
Purfleet Railway, Essex
3ft 6in gauge tramroad at Purfleet, opened 1805.
The PURFLEET Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 96 (1950) pp. 279–80, 495.
WATSON, GORDON. When Purfleet was owned by the Whitbread family. Essex Countryside vol. 27 no. 273 (Oct. 1979) pp.
36–8.
Incl. early 19th cent. tramways at the Purfleet chalk quarries.
PAAR, H. W. The first railway in Essex. Indl Rly Record no. 97 (Dec. 1983) pp. 126–7.
MR WHITBREAD’S quarry. Archive no. 24 (Dec. 1999) p. 63.
Early railways ― West Midlands Region
BARRIE, D. S. The Stratford & Moreton Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 76 (1935) pp. 113–18; 90 (1944) p. 51.
HOLLICK, J. R. The Caldon Low Tramways. Rly Mag. vol. 80 (1937) pp. 434–40.
BROWN, KENNETH. Stafford’s first railway. Rly Mag. vol. 85 (1939) pp. 333–5.
Stafford Railway Coal & Lime Co’s line from the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, 1805–14.
JOHNSTONE, J. D. The Consall plateway. Rly Mag. vol. 95 (1949) pp. 14–16; 96 (1950) p. 180.
NORRIS, JOHN. By horse and steam to Shipston-on-Stour. Rly Mag. vol. 103 (1957) pp. 160–4, 171.
Stratford & Moreton Rly.
COLEMAN, V. H. The Kington Railway. Trans Woolhope Naturalists Field Club vol. 38 (1964–6) pp. 16–26.
LEAD, PETER. The proposed inclined plane at Newcastle-under-Lyme. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 20 (1974) pp. 68–9.
Evidence shows that the plateway connecting the Newcastle-under-Lyme Canal and Newcastle Junction Canal was never
built.
LEAD, PETER. The Stafford Railway, 1805–1814. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 20 (1974) pp. 23–5.
LEAD, PETER. Tramroads on the Potteries coalfield. Jnl Staffordshire Indl Arch. Soc. no. 5 (1974) pp. 1–18.
VAN LAUN, JOHN. Rise and fall on the Kington Railway: problems of determining gradient. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol.
29 (1987–9) pp. 291–7.
The FIRST iron rails? Ironbridge Quarterly 1990 no. 4 p. 13.
VAN LAUN, JOHN. A tramroad company seal. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 32 (1996–8) pp. 132–4.
Hereford Rly (1826).
BUTCHER, CLIVE. An old railway project at Stourbridge. Blackcountryman vol. 34, no. 4 (Aut. 2001) pp. 65–6.
A proposal of c.1812 for a horse-drawn line from the Stourbridge Navigation to Halesowen.
KIRKHAM, LES. The Mow Cop tunnel and tramways of the north Staffordshire-Cheshire border. Mining History [Peak
District Mines Hist. Soc.] vol. 15 no. 1 (Smr 2002) pp. 56–9.
Field research of the 1803 and 1832 tramroads.
Coalbrookdale and the upper Severn valley
The COALBROOKDALE tramroad. Locomotive vol. 23 (1917) pp. 243–5.
BLAND, FRED. Early tramways: the Horsehay Iron Co., Salop. Edgar Allen News vol. 11 (1933) pp. 190–2.
CHALONER, W. H. and BIRCH A. The first cast-iron rails: new evidence. Rly Mag. vol. 97 (1951) pp. 632–3.
At Coalbrookdale in 1767.
WILLIAMS, W. HOWARD. Report on the remains of an old tramway at Donnington Wood. Trans Shropshire Arch. Soc. vol.
55 (1954–6) p. 171.
WILSON, E. A. Search for old tramway from Drill Colliery to the Shropshire Union Canal. Shropshire Mag. vol. 9 no. 6 (Oct.
1958) pp. 12–14.
TRINDER, BARRIE. Early railways in east Shropshire. Shropshire News Letter no. 39 (Dec. 1970) pp. [6–7].
Plateways and edge-railways.
DOWN, C. G. Narrow gauge wagons: plateway wagons. Indl Rly Record no. 73 (Oct. 1977) pp. 102–7; 76 (Apr. 1978) p. 215.
Description & drawings of wagons from Coalbrookdale, Horsehay and Madeley Wood preserved at the Ironbridge Gorge
Museum.
TUCKER, D. GORDON. The Coalbrookdale Railway, 1767–68. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 27 (1981–3) no. 3 pp. 2–6.
JONES, N. W. A wooden waggon way at Bedlam Furnace, Ironbridge. Post-Medieval Arch. vol. 21 (1987) pp. 259–62.
Constructed c.1760.
PRINGLE-SCOTT, RAY. The Trial enigma. Wilkinson Studies vol. 2 (1992) pp. 10–20.
Tracing the route of the 1759 tramroad from the New Willey ironworks, near Broseley, to the R. Severn, said to have been
used for launching John Wilkinson’s first iron boat, the Trial.
NAIR, G. and POYNER, D. The coming of coal: industrial development in a south-Shropshire parish. Midland Hist. vol. 18
(1993) pp. 87–103.
A study of the village of Highley on the R. Severn. Incl. details of tramroads to Billingsley colliery, 1795–1812, and
Stanley colliery, c.1807–24.
Early railways ― East Midlands Region
MARKHAM, CHRISTOPHER A. The iron roads of Northamptonshire. Jnl of the Northamptonsh. Natural Hist. Soc. & Field
Club vol. 12 (1904) pp. 239–70.
JOHNSON, H. BUTLER. An Elizabethan railway. Rly Mag. vol. 51 (1922) pp. 414–19.
Huntingdon Beaumont’s Wollaton railway.
BROWN, KENNETH. Northampton’s first railway. Rly Gazette vol. 70 (1939) pp. 502–3.
LEE, CHARLES E. Swannington: one-time railway centre. Rly Mag. vol. 85 (1939) pp. 1–9.
Ashby Canal tramroads, Coleorton Rly and Leicester & Swannington Rly.
——CLINKER, C. R. and BIDDLE, GORDON. Swannington and Ticknall today. Rly Mag. vol. 98 (1952) pp. 263–6, 254–5.
GRAND Junction Canal railways. Rly Mag. vol. 87 (1941) pp. 390–2.
Two temporary railways ― over Blisworth Hill and to Northampton ― used until those sections of canal could be built;
and two proposed such railways to Aylesbury and St Albans.
BAXTER, BERTRAM. Early railways in Derbyshire. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 26 (1947–9) pp. 185–97.
BIRKS, JOHN A. and COXON, PETER. The Mansfield & Pinxton Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 95 (1949) pp. 224–33, 406.
HEWISON, C. H. Two early railways at Eckington. Rly Mag. vol. 95 (1949) pp. 158–9, 341.
Connecting Bramley Moor coal pits to the Chesterfield Canal, and Comberwood ironstone mine and colliery to Renishaw
ironworks.
CLINKER, C. R. and BIDDLE, GORDON. Swannington and Ticknall today. Rly Mag. vol. 98 (1952) pp. 263–6, 254–5.
HADFIELD, CHARLES and CLINKER, C. R. The Ashby Canal: importance of its tramroads. Modern Transport vol. 71 no.
1845 (7 Aug. 1954) p. 5.
ABBOTT, ROBERT. The railways of the Leicester Navigation Company. Trans Leicestersh. Arch. & Hist. Soc. vol. 31 (1955)
pp. 51–61.
——repr. Indl Rly Record no. 81 (Mar. 1979) pp. 361–7.
SHELDON, J. B. A hot collation: or, the opening of the Swadlincote–Ashby Canal railway. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 4
(1958) pp. 109–11.
HATLEY, VICTOR A. The Blisworth Hill railway, 1800–1805. Northamptonsh. Antiq. Soc. Reports & Papers vol. 64 (1962–
3) pp. 14–26.
Temporary plateway between two sections of the Grand Junction Canal.
RIDEN, PHILIP J. Tramroads in north-east Derbyshire. Indl. Arch vol. 7 (1970) pp. 373–96.
History, descriptions & maps of 10 tramroads leading to, or in the vicinity of, the Chesterfield Canal. With gazetteer
expanding entries in Bertram Baxter, Stone blocks and iron rails (1966).
RIDEN, P. J. Plate rails at Codnor Park. Indl Archaeology vol. 10 (1973) pp. 77–82.
Stone blocks and Outram cast-iron rails found at Codnor Park wharf, Cromford Canal.
STEVENSON, PETER. The Denby Colliery and Belper Tramroad. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 20 (1973) pp. 1–13.
Branching from the Little Eaton Gangroad.
——The Belper and Morley Park (or Denby Colliery) tramroad. Derbyshire Miscellany vol. 6 (1973) pp. 183–97.
HYDE, JOHN. The Ashby–Ticknall tramway. Derbyshire Life & Countryside vol. 40 no. 1 (Jan. 1975) pp. 28–9.
TURNOCK, DAVID. Tracking down industry’s transport. Country Life vol. 166 (1979) pp. 470–1.
Ticknall tramway.
PALMER, MARILYN and NEAVERSON, PETER. The Ticknall lime industry and its transport system. Leicestersh. Indl.
Hist. Soc. Bulln no. 10 (1987) pp. 5–21; 12 (1989) pp. 5–16.
The Ashton Canal tramroads.
RIDEN, PHILIP. The ironworks at Alderwasley and Morley Park. Derbysh. Arch. Jnl vol. 108 (1988) pp. 77–107; 109 (1989)
pp. 173–9.
Refs to tramways from Marehay collieries to Morley Park, and Morley Park to Hartshay wharf on the Cromford Canal.
RICHARDSON, CHRISTINE. Rail ways to the water. Brindley’s Triumph no. 3 (Nov. 1995) pp. 8–11.
Tramroads serving the Chesterfield Canal.
MARTIN, DAVID. The High Peak railroad 1815. Derbyshire Miscellany vol. 15 no. 5 (Spr. 2000) pp. 143–51.
Duke of Devonshire’s projected railway for carrying limestone from his Peak Forest quarries to his Woodlands Estate north
of Hope, authorised 1816 but not built.
BRUMHEAD, DEREK. A note on the Thornsett Hey coal tunnel, New Mills. Manchester Region Indl Arch. Soc. Newsltr no.
101 (Nov. 2002) pp. 6–7.
Belvoir Castle Railway
POTTER, G. W. J. The Belvoir Castle edge-railway. Rly Club Jnl new ser. vol. 2 (1903).
LEE, CHARLES E. The Belvoir Castle Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 82 (1938) pp. 391–4; 87 (1941) p. 284.
BONSER, J. R. A recent exploration of the Belvoir Castle Railway. Rly Observer vol. 25 (1955) p. 111.
GOTHERIDGE, IVOR. Rails to Belvoir Castle. Rly Mag. vol. 117 (1971) pp. 478–9.
Little Eaton Gangway
The LITTLE Eaton Gangway. Rly Mag. vol. 86 (1940) pp. 183–5.
POTTER, ERIC. In search of Outram’s railway. Ad Rem 1953 pp. 4–11.
LELEUX, SYDNEY A. Little Eaton Tramroad. Indl Rly Record no. 25 (June 1969) pp. 90–3; 79 (Oct. 1978) p. 317.
LEAD, PETER. Leonard Lead and the Little Eaton Tramroad. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 19 (1973) pp. 45–8.
The duties of the toll collector and agent at Little Eaton, 1810–21.
Peak Forest Railway
TAYLOR, GEORGE. The Peak Forest Canal tramway and quarries. Great Central Railway Jnl vol. 1 (1905–6) pp. 122–3,
148–9.
BLAND, FRED and CARR, DAVID. An ancient stone tram-road from Dove Holes to Bugsworth. Edgar Allen News vol. 6 no.
63 (Aug. 1927) pp. 17–19.
BAXTER, B. Peak Forest Tramway. Locomotive vol. 35 (1929) pp. 188–90.
FRANK, D. L. The Peak Forest Tramroad. Rly Mag. vol. 87 (1941) pp. 337–9, 367.
An OLD Derbyshire tramroad, wagon and rails. Edgar Allen News vol. 31 (1952) p. 187.
CLOWES, PETER. The Peak Forest limestone tramway. Rly Mag. vol. 109 (1963) pp. 611–17; 110 (1963–4) p. 200.
LAMB, BRIAN. Peak Forest Canal and Railway. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 10 (1964) pp. 58–61.
LAMB, BRIAN. The Bugsworth complex of the Peak Forest Canal and Railway. Derbyshire Miscellany vol. 4 (1968) pp.
156–8.
FINDLOW, ALAN J. and BAINES, DON. The Peak Forest Tramway, 1796–c.1927. Archive no. 3 [Sep. 1994] pp. 25–32.
FINDLOW, ALAN J. and BAINES, DON. The Bugsworth waggon tipplers: an illustrated study of a transhipment device.
Archive no. 6 (June 1995) pp. 23–6.
For transferring limestone from the Peak Forest Tramway to the Peak Forest Canal at Bugsworth basin.
LAMB, BRIAN. The Derbyshire termini of the Peak Forest Canal and Railway. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 32 (1996–8)
pp. 104–7.
LAMB, BRIAN. The development of wagons used on the Peak Forest Railway 1796 to 1925. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol.
33 (1999–2001) pp. 31–9.
LAMB, B. The Peak Forest Railway, 1797 to 1928. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 33 (1999–2001) pp. 466–79, 640–1; 34
(2002–4) p. 121.
WHITEHEAD, PETER J. Conservation of a sector of the Peak Forest Tramway at Upper Dove Holes Dale, High Peak,
Derbyshire. One Seven Four [Inland Wwys Protection Soc.] Oct. 2006. pp. 9–16.
Early railways ― North West Region
BANKES, JOYCE H. M. Records of mining in Winstanley and Orrell, near Wigan from the 16th century to the 19th century.
Trans Lancash. & Chesh. Antiq. Soc. vol. 54 (1939) pp. 31–64.
pp. 57–60 describe introduction of steam locos on Orrell colliery rly, 1812.
COTTON, C. The Preston and Walton Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 84 (1939) pp. 190–1; 86 (1940) p. 168.
Tramroad connecting the two parts of the Lancaster Canal.
BIDDLE, GORDON. The Lancaster Canal tramroad. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 9 (1963) pp. 88–97.
HOPKINS, J. C. A fieldwork note on the Congleton Railway c.1807. Transport History vol. 4 (1971) pp. 245–51.
NEWBY, BILL. Tramways in the Douglas valley. North Western Soc. for Indl Arch. & Hist. Jnl vol. 2 (1977) pp. 9–13; 3
(1982) p. 30.
13 industrial tramways feeding the Leeds & Liverpool Canal between Parbold and Gathurst.
JERMY, R. C. Flaybrick Hill tramway: Wirral’s first railway line. Wirral Jnl vol. 2 no. 1 (Spr. 1984) pp. 38–40; no. 3 (Aut.
1984) p. 15.
From Flaybrick Hill quarries to Wallasey Pool, c.1815–65.
[BURNLEY, K.] Mysterious Wirral: what was this old trackway at Caldy? Wirral Jnl vol. 4 no. 3 (Aut. 1988) pp. 29–31.
Speculation on the existence of an early tramway from Caldy quarries to a quay on the R. Dee.
LAMB, BRIAN. The railway at Marple 1797–1811. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 32 (1996–8) pp. 406–15.
A temporary plateway linking two sections of the Peak Forest Canal past the uncompleted locks.
Early railways ― Yorkshire
LEE, CHARLES E. Heck & Wentbridge Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 81 (1937) pp. 375–7; 82 (1938) pp. 224–225, 204; 89 (1943)
p. 308.
HEWISON, C. H. The Silkstone Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 81 (1937) pp. 159–62.
[HEWISON, C. H. and LEE, CHARLES E.] The Worsborough Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 89 (1943) pp. 191–3; 92 (1946) p. 304.
GOODCHILD, JOHN F. An eighteenth century railway tunnel. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 5 (1959) p. 51.
On the Flockton railway. Attributed here to the 1770s, but see Lewis, Early wooden railways (1970) p. 148.
BIDDLE, GORDON. The Skipton Rock Railway. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 40 (1967–8) pp. 171–3.
Built by the Leeds & Liverpool Canal from the Springs Branch Canal to Haw Bank quarry, both leased from the Earl of
Thanet of Skipton Castle.
LONG, HILARY. The Bowling ironworks. Indl Arch. vol. 5 (1968) pp. 171–7.
——DODSWORTH, CHARLES, Further observations on the Bowling ironworks. vol. 6 (1969) pp. 114–23.
DODSWORTH, CHARLES. Recent uses of horse plateways in West Yorkshire. Indl Arch. vol. 7 (1970) pp. 131–43, 154.
Later 19th cent. plateways in the Bradford, Dewsbury, East Ardsley, Morley, Spenborough, Low Moor and Halifax areas.
DODSWORTH, CHARLES. The Low Moor ironworks, Bradford. Indl Arch. vol. 8 (1971) pp. 122–64.
Incl. refs to wooden & iron tramroads and later tramways.
KIRKWOOD, S. Wibsey’s railway project of 1802. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 20 (1974) pp. 19–23.
Proposed feeder to the Calder & Hebble Navigation. Repr. from the Cleckheaton Guardian 16 June 1905.
MEDLICOTT, IAN R. John Curr and the development of the Sheffield collieries, 1781–1805. Trans Hunter Archl Soc. vol. 12
(1982) pp. 51–60.
MORLEY, MICHAEL C. The Kepwick Railway. Indl Rly Record no. 98 (Feb. 1984) pp. 178–82.
3¼ mile horse-worked tramway with a self-acting inclined plane, from a quarry to limekilns in Over Silton, N. Yorkshire,
1833–93.
MARTIN, DAVID. The 1770s Newcastle coal road in Sheffield. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 33 (1999–2001) pp. 487–91.
Details of the Sheffield wagonway from the survey records of William Fairbank, 1772–8.
Middleton Colliery Railway
PALEY, W. B. The first railway Act. Locomotive 1910 pp. 49–50, 76.
LEE, CHARLES E. The first steam railway. Rly Mag. vol. 81 (1937) pp. 393–7; 83 (1939) pp .62–4.
RIMMER, W. G. Middleton Colliery, near Leeds (1770–1830). Yorksh. Bulln of Economic & Social Research vol. 7 (1955)
pp. 41–57.
SHARMAN, FRANK A. The first railway Act? Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 21 (1975) pp. 47–9.
Middleton Colliery Act 1758.
MAY, BARBARA C. Waggonways and staiths: the impact of the Middleton Colliery on the township of Hunslet, c. 1750–
1800. Publns Thoresby Soc. 2nd ser. vol. 3 (1993) pp. 38–66.
Way-leaves & traffic of the Middleton Colliery railway.
Early railways ― North Region
Cumberland
LEE, CHARLES E. The Brampton Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 88 (1942) pp. 139–43, 149.
The first part of this article deals with the earlier Tindale Fell Rly, built c.1798.
BAXTER, B. Early waggonways in Cumberland. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 7 (1961) pp. 81–4, 99, 105–9.
HARRIS, ALAN. The Tindale Fell waggonway. Trans Cumberland & Westmorland Antiq. & Arch. Soc. vol. 72 (1972) pp.
227–47.
WARD, JEAN E. John Spedding’s accounts of horses used in the Whitehaven collieries etc, from 1715 onwards. Trans
Cumberland & Westmorland Antiq. & Arch. Soc. vol. 89 (1989) pp. 181–6.
Incl. refs to the waggonway.
HAIR, NICK and COTTON, JULIAN. Excavations at Parton Colliery. Trans Cumberland & Westmorland Antiq. & Arch. Soc.
vol. 100 (2000) pp. 241–60.
Includes evidence of waggonways at this 19th cent. industrial site near Whitehaven.
GRAY, NORMAN H. The Whitehaven to Parton waggonway. Cumbrian Rlys vol. 7 (2001–3) pp. 10–11.
SCOTT-HINDSON, BRIAN, ed. by Albyn Austin. Early wooden waggonways at Whitehaven. Cumbrian Rlys vol. 8 (2004–6)
pp. 4–10.
——GRAY, NORMAN H. The waggonways and inclines of Whitehaven. pp. 11–14.
Wearside
PALEY, W. B. Centenary of the Hetton railway. Locomotive vol. 28 (1922) pp. 329–32.
DUKE of Wellington’s early railway journey. Rly Mag. vol. 94 (1948) pp. 55–6.
On the Marquis of Londonderry’s waggonway in 1827; with drwg of the carriage made for him.
SILL, MICHAEL. The diary of Matthias Dunn, colliery viewer, 1831–36. Local Historian vol. 16 (1984–5) pp. 418–24.
Refs to rival rly proposals to serve Hetton collieries. [There is a complementary article, with insignificant refs to transport:
The journal of Matthias Dunn, 1831–1836: some observations of a colliery viewer. In STURGESS, R. W. (ed), Pitmen,
viewers and coalmasters: essays in north east coal mining in the nineteenth century. [n.p.]: North East Labour Hist. Soc.,
1986. pp. 55–80. Also repr. in Durham Univ. Jnl vol. 81 (1988) pp. 87–99.]
BANHAM, JOHN. Arthur Mowbray, adventurer or entrepreneur?: a North East businessman in the Industrial Revolution.
Durham County Local Hist. Soc. Bulln.
pt 1, 1755–1819. no. 48 (May 1992) pp. 27–47.
pt 2, The Hetton Coal Company. no. 49 (Dec. 1992) pp. 45–68.
Mowbray, as superintendent of a number of colliery estates and then as manager of the Hetton Coal Company, was one of
the key personalities in the politics of mining and transport of coal in the Durham coalfield, c.1785–1825.
LEWIS, M. J. T. The Lambton D Pit wood waggonway. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 32 (1996–8) pp. 545–7.
Discovery on the site of Lambton coke works.
RENNISON, BOB. A rare find: a wooden wagonway unearthed. Newsletter (Panel for Historical Engineering Works) no. 73
(Mar. 1997) pp. 1–2.
Lambton waggonway.
AYRIS, I. M. Wooden waggonway remains at the former Lambton D Pit, Fencehouses, Tyne & Wear. International Mining &
Minerals vol. 1 no. 5 (May 1998) pp. 136–8.
AYRIS, IAN, NOLAN, JOHN and DURKIN, ANDREW, with additional contributions from Eric Clavering, John Elliott,
Chris Goldsmith, Michael Lewis and Jim Rees. The archaeological excavation of wooden waggonway remains at Lambton D
Pit, Sunderland. Indl Arch. Review vol. 20 (1998) pp. 5–22.
GLOVER, GAVIN. Rainton Bridge South waggonway. Indl Arch. Review vol. 27 (2005) pp. 235–44.
Archaeological investigation of 18th cent. remains at Houghton-le-Spring.
Tyneside
LEE, CHARLES E. An ancient underground railway. Rly Mag. vol. 90 (1944) pp. 275–6.
From East Kenton colliery to the Tyne at Scotswood (‘Kitty’s Drift’), c.1770–1810.
A RAILWAY under the Tyne. Rly Mag. vol. 90 (1944) p. 246.
From Wallsend to Jarrow, (1802 ?).
LEE, CHARLES E. The world’s oldest railway: three hundred years of coal conveyance to the Tyne staiths. Trans Newcomen
Soc. vol. 25 (1945–7) pp. 141–62.
Tanfield Waggonway, etc.
APPLEBY MILLER, R. N. William Chapman, civil engineer of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Willington, his locomotive of
1812 and the Heaton wagon-way of 1813. Edgar Allen News vol. 24 (1946) pp. 622–3, 637–9, 654–5, 665.
Earlier version in Heaton Works Jnl vol. 2 no. 4 (1936).
LEE, CHARLES E. Tyneside tramroads of Northumberland. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 26 (1947–9) pp. 199–229.
CHARLTON, L. G. The Wylam wagonway. Stephenson Loco. Soc. Jnl vol. 27 (1951) pp. 328–30.
LEE, CHARLES E. The wagonways of Tyneside. Archaeologia Aeliana 4th ser. vol. 29 (1951) pp. 135–202.
SKEMPTON, A. W. and ANDREWS, A. Cast iron edge-rails at Walker colliery 1798. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 48 (1976–7)
pp. 119–22.
CHAMBERLAIN, A G. The Victoria Tunnel: notes. In Trust (Tyne & Wear Indl Monuments Trust) no. 7 (June 1978) p. [6].
Spital Tongues colliery waggonway, Newcastle upon Tyne.
ELLIS, JOYCE. The poisoning of William Cotesworth, 1725. History Today vol. 28 (1978) pp. 752–7.
An incident arising from animosity between Tyneside coal and waggonway owners.
ELLIS, JOYCE. A bold adventurer: the business fortunes of William Cotesworth, c.1668–1726. Northern Hist. vol. 17 (1981)
pp. 117–32.
Although this makes only passing references to waggonway wayleaves, it provides useful background to their history.
MANN, JOHN. Causey Arch: a note. Archaeologia Aeliana 5th ser. vol. 12 (1984) pp. 223–6.
Bridge on the Tanfield Waggonway, built 1727.
EDGAR, HERBERT WILLIAM. The Coxlodge Waggonway from Jubilee Colliery to Gosforth Colliery: a consideration of the
transition from horse-drawn to steam locomotive haulage. Tyne & Tweed no. 44 (1989) pp. 61–70.
GOODCHILD, JOHN. ‘These grand affairs’: the development of the Mickley colliery. British Mining no. 61 (1998) pp. 110–
18.
The colliery, with a wooden waggonway to Stella staiths, operated from 1766 to 1781.
CHAMBERLAIN, ALEXANDER. The Victoria Tunnel in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Industrial Heritage vol. 17 no. 3 (Aut.
1999) pp 6–9.
Spital Tongues colliery waggonway.
Early railways ― Scotland
BROWN, KENNETH. The first railway in Scotland: the Tranent–Cockenzie wagon-way. Rly Mag. vol. 82 (1938) pp. 1–4,
146, 225.
BROAD, HARRY. Rails to Ayr: 18th and 19th century coal waggonways. Ayrshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. 13 (1981) pp.
99–144.
Histories & remains of the Auchincruive, Wallacetown, Craigie and Holmston waggonways.
MULLAY, SANDY. Did Scotland lead the way. Scots Mag. new ser. vol. 118 (1982–3) pp. 90, 92, 94.
Suggests that Scotland’s earliest waggonway was built in 1606 near Inveresk.
FERGUSON, NIALL. William Dixon: a traditional Scottish coalmaster at work. True Line no. 23 (Nov. 1988) pp. [2].
Polloc & Govan Rly.
Kilmarnock & Troon Railway
LEE, CHARLES E. The Kilmarnock & Troon Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 84 (1939) pp. 63–4, 217–18; 85 (1939) pp. 268, 357; 96
(1950) pp. 58–9.
OLDEST multispan railway viaduct at Gatehead on Kilmarnock and Troon Railway. Scots Mag. new ser. vol. 131 (1989) pp.
503–4.
KIRKPATRICK, GRAHAM. The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway. BackTrack vol. 6 (1992) pp. 41–8.
PAXTON, R. A. Conservation of Laigh Milton viaduct, Ayrshire. Proc. Instn Civil Engrs, Civil Engng vol. 126 (1998) pp. 73–
85.
4-arch viaduct carrying the Kilmarnock & Troon Rly over the R. Irvine. Revised from: Conservation of the 1811 railway
viaduct at Laigh Milton, Scotland. Historical Studies in Civil Engng [Japan Society of Civil Engineers] no. 16 (1996) pp.
1–16.
Early railways ― Wales
VAN LAUN, JOHN and BICK, DAVID. South Wales plateways 1788–1860. Antiquaries Jnl vol. 80 (2000) pp. 321–31.
REYNOLDS, PAUL. The London & South Wales Railway scheme of 1824/25. South West Wales Indl Arch. Soc. Bulln no. 95
(2006) pp. 3–7.
——repr. in Welsh Rlys Archive vol. 4 (2005– ) pp. 51–3.
Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire
BEVAN, THOMAS. The tram-roads. [Glamorgan communications, 3.] Glamorgan Historian vol. 3 (1966) pp. 188–200.
GREEN, HARRY. Parson’s [sic] Folly: the Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway. Neath Antiq. Soc. Trans 1977 pp. 78–88.
Title should read Parsons’.
VAN LAUN, JOHN. Tramroads in the Clydach. Bristol Indl Arch. Soc. Jnl vol. 10 (1977) pp. 20–2.
JAMES, BRYNMOR. Echoes of a tramway long ago. Country Quest, vol. 19 (1978–9) pp. 21–3.
The Duffryn Llynfi & Porthcawl tramroad.
REYNOLDS, P. R. Scott’s tramroad, Llansamlet. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 26 (1980) pp. 85–95.
Built c.1818.
REYNOLDS, PAUL. An early tramroad locomotive at Llansamlet: further evidence. S. W. Wales Indl Arch. Soc. Newsltr no.
33 (May 1983) pp. 6–7.
A locomotive on Scott’s tramroad c.1833.
REYNOLDS, P. R. Improved tramplates from Llanelli. S. W. Wales Indl Arch. Soc. Bulln no. 38 (Feb. 1985) pp. 5–8.
REYNOLDS, PAUL. Parsons, the first Port Talbot Railway (1838) and the upper Afan valley. Afan Uchaf vol. 8 (1985) pp. 1–
11.
BUCKLEY, W. KEMMIS. Memories of an old retainer: Llanelli in the early nineteenth century. Carmarthensh. Antiquary vol.
22 (1986) pp. 82–6.
Transcription of five letters dated 1887–8, two containing personal accounts of the Carmarthenshire Rly of 1802.
HALE, MICHAEL. The Graigola tramroad. S. W. Wales Indl Arch. Soc. Bulln no. 65 (1996) pp. 5–9.
Colliery tramroad of 1831, feeder to Swansea Canal.
REYNOLDS, PAUL. The 1838 Gwaun-cae-Gurwen Railway: an abandoned feeder to the Swansea Canal. Jnl Rly & Canal
Hist Soc. vol. 32 (1996–8) pp. 500–5.
——repr. in S. W. Wales Indl Arch. Soc. Bulln no. 83 (2002) pp. 6–10.
TANN, PETER. The Tappenden tramroad to the Neath Canal, 1800–14. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 32 (1996–8) pp. 88–
102.
TANN, PETER. The Tappendens and the Abernant Iron Company, 1801–15. Morgannwg vol. 40 (1996) pp. 40–63.
Involvement of the banking family in the ironworks at Aberdare. Assesses their managerial / financial competence,
including decisions regarding the tramroad to the Neath Canal.
REYNOLDS, PAUL. Scott’s Pit: new evidence from the north of England. South West Wales Indl Arch. Soc. Bulln no. 74
(1999) pp. 11–19.
Includes material on Scott’s railway and the 1819 locomotive.
Oystermouth Railway / Swansea & Mumbles Railway
The OLDEST railway in the world (the Swansea and Mumbles Railway). Rly Mag. vol. 23 (1908) pp. 1–7.
JENNINGS, J. The Swansea and Mumbles Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 52 (1923) pp. 318–19.
LEE, CHARLES E. The Swansea and Mumbles Railway. Rly Mag. vol. 64 (1929) pp. 169–73, 271–5.
LEE, CHARLES E. The first passenger railway. Rly Mag. vol. 86 (1940) pp. 481–4, 528.
PHILLIPS, J. R. S. The earliest passenger carrying railway vehicle? – a note. Transport History vol. 5 (1972) pp. 152–4.
GABB, GERALD. A temporary extension of the Oystermouth Railway. Gower vol. 29 (1978) pp. 3–10.
——A second extension of the Oystermouth Railway. Gower vol. 31 (1980) pp. 36–42.
SMITH, DONALD J. M. The Swansea & Mumbles Railway. Transport History vol. 10 (1979) pp. 109–13.
GABB, G. F. The birth pangs of the Oystermouth Railway. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 27 (1981) pp. 2–8.
LLEWELLYN-JONES, FRANK. Wales and the origins of the railway revolution: contributions of Wales to world technology.
Trans Cymmrodorion 1983, pp. 115–31.
Origins of the Oystermouth Rly and the Penydarren locomotive, 1804–7.
GILHAM, JOHN. The beginning of the Swansea & Mumbles. Tramway Review vol. 20 (1993–4) pp. 257–63; 21 (1995–6) pp.
72, 155.
A lucid exposition of the complex chronology of the Oystermouth Tramway and its successors.
Penydarren / Merthyr Tydfil Tramroad
MERCER, STANLEY. Trevithick and the Merthyr Tramroad. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 26 (1947–9) pp. 89–103.
EARLY tramplates. Rly Mag. vol. 94 (1948) p. 412.
The PENYDARREN Tramroad. Rly Mag. vol. 97 (1951) pp. 206–7, 350, 735, 782.
LEWIS, M. J. T. Steam on the Penydarren. Indl Rly Record no. 59 (Apr. 1975) pp. 1–36; 61 (Aug. 1975) p. 94; 65 (Apr. 1976)
pp. 216-17; 74 (Dec. 1977) p. 147; 76 (Apr. 1978) p. 214.
The Penydarren Tramroad and the locos used on it.
ROWSON, STEPHEN. When did the Merthyr Tramroad become the Penydarren Tramroad? Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 34
(2002–4) pp. 310–15.
JONES, STEPHEN K. 1804: the year of Trevithick’s dragon. Archive no. 44 (Dec. 2004) pp. 57–64; 45 (Mar. 2005) pp. 23–4.
Its trials on the Merthyr Tramroad.
Monmouthshire and Brecknockshire
ELLISON, F. B. The history of the Hay Railway 1810–1864. Trans of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club 1936–8 pp. 76–
87.
ELLISON, F. B. The Hay Railway 1810–1863. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 18 (1937) pp. 29–42.
The BRYN Oer Tramway. Rly Mag. vol. 81 (1937) pp. 217–18; 82 (1938) pp. 289–90.
LEE, CHARLES E. The Sirhowy Valley and its railways. Rly Mag. vol. 85 (1939) pp. 203–8, 261–8.
The tramroad era, up to their conversion into railways.
SOME Usk tramroads. Rly Mag. vol. 84 (1939) pp. 272, 300–1.
Notes on Bailey’s Tramroad, Bryn Oer Tramroad and Brynmawr–Llangattock Tramroad.
MORRIS, E. H. and ELLISON, F. B. The Hereford and Abergavenny tramroad. Trans of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field
Club vol. 30 (1941) pp. 97–105.
——repr. in Rly Mag. vol. 103 (1957) pp. 599–605.
The TREVIL Railroad. Rly Mag. vol. 87 (1941) pp. 254–5.
MORRIS, E. H. The Abergavenny–Hereford tramroads. Rly Mag. vol. 93 (1947) pp. 138–41, 152–3, 351–4.
The Llanfihangel Rly, Grosmont Rly and Hereford Rly.
MORRIS, E. H. The Abergavenny and Hereford tramroads: some of the earlier history of the undertaking. Trans of the
Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club vol. 32 (1947) pp. 65–72.
CLINKER, C. R. The railways of west Herefordshire. Trans of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club vol. 35 (1955–7) pp.
286–93.
RATTENBURY, P. G. Survivals of the Brinore Tramroad in Brecknockshire. Jnl of Indl Arch. vol. 1 (1964–5) pp. 173–83.
JONES, OLIVER. The Sirhowy tramroad and its locomotives. Presenting Monmouthshire no. 20 (1965) pp. 34–44.
JONES, OLIVER. The Sirhowy–Ebbw Vale tunnel. Presenting Monmouthshire no. 31 (Spr. 1971) pp. 21–6.
RATTENBURY, P. G. Tramroads of Pontypool (Mon.) in pre railway days. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 18 (1972) pp. 64–
8.
LEWIS, JACK. The Penllwyn tramroad. Presenting Monmouthshire no. 38 (Aut. 1974) pp. 9–10.
A tramroad feeder to the Monmouthshire Canal, opened in 1824.
TAMPLIN, RICHARD and TEULON, ALAN. General history of Garnddyrys Iron Works. Presenting Monmouthshire no. 37
(Spr. 1974) pp. 38–50.
Refs to Hill’s Tramroad from the iron works to the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal.
VAN LAUN, JOHN. The Hay Railway: the passing of an early railway Act. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 22 (1976) pp. 2–
10.
RATTENBURY, GORDON. The Cwm Ffrwd Rail Road. Gwent Local Hist. no. 42 (1977) pp. 12–21.
VAN LAUN, JOHN. Excavation on the Hay Railway. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 23 (1977) pp. 83–6.
Excavation of rails at a farm crossing.
FAIRS, G. L. Recent discoveries about the Hay tramroad 1816–1868. Transport Hist. vol. 10 (1979) pp. 13–20.
LOWE, JEREMY and LAWLER, MARTIN. Landscapes of the iron industry at Blaenafon, Gwent. Landscape Hist. vol. 2
(1980) pp. 71–82.
Incl. tramroads.
RATTENBURY, GORDON. Cwm Dee Rail Road. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 27 (1981–3) pp. 98–102.
A tramroad feeder to the Monmouthshire Canal, c.1795–1870. Earlier version in Jnl S.E. Wales Indl Arch. Soc. vol. 2
(1976) pp. 49–56.
RATTENBURY, GORDON. Jones’ tramroad, Risca. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 27 (1981–3) pp. 288–90.
A tramroad feeder to the Monmouthshire Canal, built in 1799.
RATTENBURY, GORDON. Penllwyn tramroad. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 27 (1981–3) pp. 189–97.
A tramroad feeder to the Monmouthshire Canal, opened in 1824.
RATTENBURY, GORDON. The Trevil Rail Road Company. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 29 (1987–9) pp. 454–69.
History of the tramroad from the Trevil limestone quarries to ironworks in the Ebbw Vawr valley, c.1793–1963.
RATTENBURY, GORDON. Hall’s Tramroad. Jnl Rly & Canal Hist. Soc. vol. 29 (1987–9) pp. 170–83.
Built 1809–14 as a feeder to the Monmouthshire Canal. Later leased by the GWR and converted to a standard gauge rly.
Earlier version in Jnl S.E. Wales Indl Arch. Soc. vol. 3 no. 1 (1978).
BELL, STEPHEN. Abergavenny and Hereford tramroad. Welsh Rlys Archive vol. 1 (1990–4) pp. 27–9.
DAVIES, G. J. History of Penllwyn Tramroad. Welsh Rlys Archive vol. 2 (1995–9) pp. 114–15.
Transcribed from a report dated Feb. 1934 from the District Engineer’s Office, Abergavenny. This tramroad was vested in
the Sirhowy.
EDMONDS, TIM. The Hay Railway. BackTrack vol. 9 (1995) pp. 93–8.
A survey of the remains.
ELLIOTT, KIRSTEN and SWIFT, ANDREW. On the track of the Caerleon Tramroad. Archive no. 32 (Dec. 2001) pp. 2–17;
33 (Mar. 2002) p. 47.
JONES, NIGEL and HANKINSON, RICHARD. Brinore Tramroad, Talybont on Usk (SO 11 13 to SO 11 22). Archaeology in
Wales vol. 44 (2004) pp. 196–7.
Summary report on archaeological survey of the route of the tramroad, incl. brief history.
SWIFT, ANDREW and ELLIOTT, KIRSTEN. Hijacked by Chartists: an incident from 1839. BackTrack vol. 17 (2003) pp.
110–11.
On the Sirhowy Tramroad.
ELLIOTT, KIRSTEN and SWIFT, ANDREW. Merlin’s railroads. BackTrack vol. 19 (2005) pp. 366–7.
The newspaper Monmouthshire Merlin and the introduction of steam on the local tramroads.
North Wales
BROWN, KENNETH. Anglesey’s ghost railway. Rly Mag. vol. 86 (1940) pp. 391–3; 87 (1941) pp. 36–7; 89 (1943) p. 310.
Authorised 1812 but not built.
DAVIES, A. STANLEY. Early railways of the Ellesmere and of the Montgomeryshire Canals, 1794–1914. Trans Newcomen
Soc. vol. 24 (1943–5) pp. 141–6.
JAGGERS, K. A. Slates from Llanberis. Rly Mag. vol. 120 (1974) pp. 380–4, 446–50.
The first part of the article deals with Mr Assheton-Smith’s, or Padarn, Tramroad (1824–43) which preceded the Padarn
Rly.
GRENTER, STEPHEN. A wooden waggonway complex at Bersham ironworks, Wrexham. Indl Arch. Review vol. 15 (1992–
3) pp. 195–207.
——The Bersham ironworks. Current Arch. vol. 12 (1993–5) pp. 332–5.
Incl. discovery of a section of wooden waggonway.
GREENLY, DAVID. An eighteenth century waggonway. Hist. Model Rly Soc. Jnl vol. 15 (1994–6) pp. 245–7.
Wooden waggonway track excavated on site of Bersham ironworks, near Wrexham.
EDMONDS, TIM. Early narrow gauge railway tunnels in north Wales. BackTrack vol. 9 (1995) pp. 535–6.
HEDGER, DAVID. The Embankment tramway. [From the museum shelves.] Ffestiniog Rly Mag. vol. 15 (2000–3) pp. 351–3.
The tramway used from 1808 in constructing the Cob at Portmadoc and its rails.
GWYN, DAVID. Anglesey’s ghost railway revisited. Trans Anglesey Antiq. Soc. 2002 pp. 16–22.
Proposed railway in Anglesey coalfield, 1811.
GWYN, DAVID. Rail access to Penrhyn Quarry, 1801–1866. Festiniog Rly Heritage Grp Jnl no. 70 (Smr 2002) pp. 22–33.
Rutways
OWEN, J. S. Rutways before railways on the Yorkshire coast, with details of twelve sites between Saltburn and Scarborough.
Cleveland Indl Archaeologist no. 18 (1986) pp. 23–32.
Cart ‘rutways’ associated with the ironstone & alum industries, cut in the foreshore rock along the N. Yorkshire coast. Late
18th/early 19th cent?
——repr. with amendments, in Cleveland ironstone: a memorial to John Owen, Cleveland Indl. Arch. Soc., 1998 pp. 75–9.
——A transport curiosity: trackway transport on a tidal foreshore. Jnl Transport Hist. 3rd ser. vol. 8 (1987) pp. 210–15.
——Trackway transport on a tidal foreshore. Stephenson Loco. Soc. Jnl vol. 64 (1988) pp. 168–73.
——An alternative form of guided transport on the Yorkshire coast. Jnl Trevithick Soc. no. 18 (1991) pp. 126–33.
With photos of a Cornish coastal rutway. See also Trevithick Soc. Newsltr no. 76 (Feb. 1992) p.12; 77 (May 1992) p.10; 79
(Nov. 1992) pp. 2–3 for correspondence on Cornish rutways.
——A rutway at Redcar. Cleveland Indl Arch. Soc. Newsltr no. 60 (July 1994) p. 12.
OWEN, JOHN. Rutways in Dorset. Cleveland Indl Arch. Soc. Newsltr no. 49 (Mar. 1990) pp. 6–7.
Used for moving wagons of stone at Dancing Ledge and Winspit quarries.
SMITH-GROGAN, GEOFF. Rutways: the earliest industrial railways? Industrial Rly Record no. 145 (June 1996) pp. 138–42;
149 (June 1997) pp. 349–50.
A chronological survey of the development of rutways from 6th cent. B.C. Italy to the Haytor Granite Rly.
SMITH-GROGAN, GEOFF. Rutways and stone tramroads. Jnl of the Trevithick Soc. vol. 25 (1998) pp. 24–32.
11 Cornish coastal sites identified.
Haytor Granite Tramroad
HOPWOOD, H. L. An early Devonshire tramroad. Rly Mag. vol. 42 (1918) pp. 181–2; 80 (1937) p. 299.
LEE, C. E. The HAY Tor Granite Tramroad. Rly Mag. vol. 82 (1938) pp. 376–7, 459; vol. 92 (1946) pp. 316–17.
LEE, CHARLES E. The Haytor Granite Tramroad. Trans Newcomen Soc. vol. 35 (1962–3) pp. 237–41.
PRESS, MARTIN H. The Haytor granite railway. Edgar Allen News vol. 36 (1957) pp. 15–16.
CAPLAN, N. A Dartmoor railway. Rly World vol. 19 (1958) pp. 201–3.
The HAYTOR Granite Tramway. Indl Arch. no. 4 (1967) pp. 288–9.
BEAVIS, DEREK. The Templer Way. BackTrack vol. 4 (1990) pp. 226–9.
Route of the Haytor Granite Tramway.
HARRIS, HELEN. The Haytor Granite Tramway and Stover Canal. Tamar no. 17 (1995) pp. 27–30.
HUNTER, MARILYN. In a class of its own. Dartmoor no. 7 (Wtr 1999) pp. 16–19.
Suspension railways
ASHBY, J. B. The first suspension railway. Rly Mag. vol. 96 (1950) pp. 270–2.
H. R. Palmer’s rly at Cheshunt (1825).
CARLEY, JAMES. A railway on a new principle: the proposed Tunbridge Wells, Snodland and Edenbridge suspension
railway. Bygone Kent vol. 19 (1998) pp. 397–402.
A scheme of 1825.
PAYE, PETER. The Palmer suspension railway. BackTrack vol. 16 (2002) pp. 560–1.