The Redruth and Chasewater Railway was an early mineral railway line in Cornwall, England, UK. It opened in 1825 and was built to convey the output from...
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Track gauge (redirect from Railway gauge)
4 ft 6+1⁄2 in (1,384 mm); the Redruth and Chasewater Railway (1825) in Cornwall chose 4 ft (1,219 mm). The Arbroath and Forfar Railway opened in 1838 with a gauge...
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Glasgow Central and Penzance. Cornwall portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Redruth railway station. Redruth and Chasewater Railway Padgett, David...
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Padarn Railway Reading Corporation Tramways Redruth and Chasewater Railway Saundersfoot Railway Wellington tramway system Central Funicular Fribourg...
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locomotives. It was closed from 4 March 1918. Redruth and Chasewater Railway This was opened on 30 January 1826 and was locomotive worked from 1 December 1864...
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Portreath Tramroad (category Early British railway companies)
the later Redruth and Chasewater Railway was the first true railway in the county. The Company (or its proprietors) also owned the harbour, and the use...
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List of track gauges (redirect from List of railway gauges)
Industrial Railway Record. 60. Industrial Railway Society: 49. 1975. Dart, Maurice (2005). Cornwall Narrow Gauge including the Camborne & Redruth tramway...
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limitation. When the Redruth and Chasewater Railway was opened in 1826 (as a horse-drawn railway), it was immediately successful operationally and financially...
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In 1848 he was appointed engineer and superintendent of the 4 ft (1,219 mm) gauge Redruth and Chasewater Railway in Cornwall for the next 20 years. In...
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Carharrack (section Culture and sport)
Mine and several other local tin and copper mines, is immediately east of the village. The mines were served by the Redruth and Chasewater Railway (an...
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Maritime Line (category Scenic railway lines in Devon and Cornwall)
south and passes high above the silted-up Restronguet Creek on Carnon viaduct. This valley was the route of the Redruth and Chasewater Railway down to...
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Walking Britain's Lost Railways is a British documentary television series presented by Rob Bell that first aired on Channel 5 on 21 September 2018. A...
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and copper from the mining areas a few miles to the north and there were wharves at Point Quay served by an extension of the Redruth and Chasewater Railway;...
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1830; the Redruth and Chasewater Railway complained that boats using the creek were obstructed. The south-east wall and parts of the north-east and south-west...
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engaged in the export of mined minerals and the import of mining materials and coal. The Redruth and Chasewater Railway, an early industrial line which served...
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Greenwich Hospital. In 1824 he built the Redruth and Chasewater Railway to transport the ore from Consolidated Mines and others nearby to the port at Devoran...
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It was the third public railway in Cornwall, after the Portreath Tramroad (a plateway) and the Redruth and Chasewater Railway. The northern part was on...
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Devoran (category Ports and harbours of Cornwall)
mined minerals and the import of mining materials and coal. The Redruth and Chasewater Railway, an early industrial line which served the many mines a few...
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crossed Restronguet Creek and the Redruth and Chasewater Railway near its Devoran terminus. This disused railway line now forms part of the Mineral Tramway...
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parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland). For acts passed...
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valley and the Redruth and Chasewater Railway. In the other direction, trains crossed the smaller Perran Viaduct, which was 56 feet (17 m) high and 339 feet...
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and by 1829 another three engines had to be added. In 1824 Taylor built the Redruth and Chasewater Railway to transport the ore from this mine (and other...
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Stoke-on-Trent railway station is a mainline railway station serving the city of Stoke-on-Trent, on the Stafford to Manchester branch of the West Coast...
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The Helston Railway (Cornish: Hyns-horn Hellys) is a heritage railway in Cornwall which aims to rebuild and preserve as much as possible of the former...
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The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum. Retrieved 29 December 2014. Dart, Maurice (2005). Cornwall Narrow Gauge including the Camborne & Redruth tramway. Middleton...
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Burton-on-Trent railway station is a mainline railway station located in the town of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed...
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Gwennap (section Copper and tin mining)
Poldice and Crofthandy. This was followed by the building of the Redruth-Chasewater Railway in 1824 running from Pedn-an-Drea and Wheal Buller, Redruth to...
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Stafford railway station is a major interchange railway station in Stafford, Staffordshire, England, and is the second busiest railway station in Staffordshire...
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Chacewater (section Economy and transport)
an Chas) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Redruth. The hamlets of Carnhot...
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Gloddfa Ganol (redirect from Narrow Gauge Railway Centre)
Welsh slate industry and narrow-gauge railways, situated in the Oakeley slate quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog. It opened in 1974 and closed in 1998 following...
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