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RAILWAYS. 



Monmouthshire, a distance of about 6.} miles. The 

 capital subscribed is 20,000. Its uses are similar 

 to those made of the Hay railway. 



1812. The Groswont Railway, or Tramroad, 

 commences at the termination of the Llaofthaogcl 

 railway, and ends at Llangua Bridge, on the road 

 between Abergavenny and Hereford, a distance of 

 nearly seven miles, in the course of which there is 

 a difference in the level of 166 feet. The capital 

 raised is 13.000. The Penrhynmaur Railway 

 commences at the Penrhynmaur coal-works, and is 

 carried to Red Wharf, in the parish of Llanbed- 

 groch, in the county of Anglesea, with a branch 

 which follows the shore of Red Wharf Bay for a 

 short distance northward. In length, it is rather 

 more than seven miles. Its capital of 10,000, 

 was provided by the earl of Uxbridge and Mr Hol- 

 land Griffith. 



1814. The Mamhilad Railway commences in the 

 parish of that name, at the bank of the Brecknock 

 and Abergavenny canal, and ends at Usk Bridge, 

 likewise in the county of Monmouth, a distance of 

 rather more than five miles. The capital 6,000, 

 in shares of 50 each. 



1815. The Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway 

 commences at the basin of the Gloucester and Ber- 

 keley canal, in the city of Gloucester, and ends at 

 the Knapp toll-gate at Cheltenham, a distance of 

 about nine miles. The capital is 50,000. 



1817. The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway com- 

 mences at Bull's head Lane in the town of Mans- 

 field, Nottinghamshire, and ends at Pinxton Basin, 

 near to Alfreton in Derbyshire, where it communi- 

 cates with a branch of the Cromford canal. A 

 branch begins about a mile and a half from Pinxton 

 Basin, and passes eastward about a mile and a half 

 to the Cromford canal, a short distance from the 

 Codnor Park works. It is 8} miles long ; capital 

 32,800. This line passes through a country abound- 

 ing with minerals. 



1818. The King ton Railway is a continuation 

 of the Hay Railway, which it joins at Parton Cross 

 in Herefordshire, and is carried to Kington in the 

 same county, and thence to the Lime-works, near 

 Burlinjob, in Radnorshire. In length, it is about 

 fourteen miles ; capital, 23,000. It is used 

 for the conveyance of coal, iron, lime, and agricul- 

 tural products. 



1819. The Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway 

 commences at the Sound at Sutton Pool, a short 

 distance south of Plymouth, and ends at Bachelor's 

 Hall, in the parish of Lydford, near to the prison, 

 erected for the custody of prisoners of war, on Dart- 

 moor ; it has a branch to the lime-works at Cats- 

 down, and altogether its length, through a very cir- 

 cuitous course, is about thirty miles. The capital 

 raised for this work was 35.000. 



1821. The Stratford and Morelon Railway Com- 

 pany was incorporated " for the purpose of making 

 and maintaining a railway or tramroad from Strat- 

 ford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, to 

 Moreton-in Marsh, in the county of Gloucester, with 

 a branch to Shipston-upon-Stour, in the county of 

 Worcester. The length of the main line is about 

 sixteen miles, and of the branch 2 miles ; capital 

 50,000. The principal use made of this railway 

 is for conveying coal, stone, and agricultural pro- 

 duce. The Stockton and Darlington Railway was 

 the first constructed public railway in England, upon 

 which locomotive steam-engines have been used as 

 the moving power. It begins near the town of 

 Stockton, on the left bank of the river Tees, whence 

 it is carried in a southerly direction for about four 

 miles. A branch is continued in the same direction 

 through Egglescliffe to Yarm Bridge, while the main 



line turns to the west, and afterwards to the north- 

 west, by the town of Darlington, whence its course 

 is nearly north to the point of junction with th 

 Clarence railway at Sim Pasture. Turning again to 

 the north-west it then passes the town of West Auck- 

 land, and ends at Witton Park colliery, about two 

 miles and a half west of Bishop's Auckland. The 

 main line is about twenty-five miles Jong, and there 

 are four branches to the west of Stockton, and a 

 fifth to the east of that town, and the whole extent 

 of railway forty miles. The extension to the Tees' 

 mouth commences at Stockton and crosses the river 

 Tees into Yorkshire, by a suspension bridge, 240 

 feet wide within the piers, and thirty feet above 

 low-water mark. The joint stock of the com- 

 pany is divided into 1,000 shares of 100 

 each, in addition to which permission is given 

 in the Acts to borrow 150,000 on bond. The 

 scheme has in every way proved eminently suc- 

 cessful. 



1824. The Redruth and Chasewater Railway 

 Company was incorporated for making and main- 

 taining a railway or tramroad from the town of Red- 

 ruth in the county of Cornwall, to Point Quay, in 

 the parish of Feock, in the same county, with se- 

 veral branches therefrom : and also for restoring, 

 improving, and maintaining the navigation of Res- 

 trongett Creek, in the same county. The main 

 line of this railway begins at the east side of the 

 town of Redruth, whence it proceeds south-easterly 

 round the mountain of Carn-Marth ; then north- 

 easterly to Twelve Heads, and then again south- 

 eastward to Point Quay, which is a small shipping 

 port at the head of Carreg-road. The length of 

 this main line is nine miles and a quarter, besides 

 which there are four branches, amounting together 

 to rather more than five miles; thecapital is 22,500; 

 and the object of the undertaking is the convey- 

 ance of the rich mineral products of the district for 

 shipment. The Monklandand Kirkintilloch Rail- 

 way begins at Palace Craig, in the parish of Old 

 Monkland, and traverses a distance of ten miles in 

 a northerly direction to Kirkintilloch, in Dumbar- 

 tonshire. There is a branch at Howes to a colliery 

 three-quarters of a mile from the main line. The 

 capital raised, in 50 shares, is 25,000. The ob- 

 ject of the projectors, which has fully succeeded, 

 was to open a means of transport for the coal and 

 iron of the district to the Forth and Clyde canal. 

 This line is also connected with the Garnkirk and 

 Glasgow, and the Ballochney railways. 



1825. The Rumney Railway Company was in- 

 corporated ' for making and maintaining a railway 

 or tramroad from the northern extremity of a cer- 

 tain estate called Abertyswg, in the parish of Bed- 

 welty, in the county of Monmouth, to join the Sir- 

 howey railway, at or near Pye Corner, in the parish 

 of Bassaleg, in the same county.' This end of the 

 line is about two miles and a half west from New- 

 port. The work takes its name from the river Rum- 

 ney, along the bank of which it runs, and the iron 

 works called by the same name, near to which it 

 begins. The length of the railway is 21f miles; the 

 capital 47,100, in shares of 100 each. It is 

 used for the conveyance of the mineral products of 

 the district. The West Lothian Railway begins at 

 the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal near Ry- 

 hall, in the parish of Uphall, and proceeds past 

 Whitburn to Shotts; its length, including two 

 branches, Ss about twenty-three miles. The capi- 

 tal raised was 40,700, in shares of '50 each. 

 The Cromford and High Peak Railway begins at 

 the Cromford canal, one mile south of Cromford, 

 and ends at the Peak Forest canal at W ha ley 

 Bridge. Its length is about thirty-four miles, and 



