A plateway is an early kind of railway, tramway or wagonway, where the rails are made from cast iron. They were mainly used for about 50 years up to 1830...

The Middlebere Plateway, or Middlebere Tramway, was a horse-drawn plateway on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. One of the first railways...

Plymouth Ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. First introduction of plateway (for underground use), at Sheffield Park Colliery, Yorkshire, England,...

unflanged wheels ran on L-shaped metal plates, which came to be known as plateways. John Curr, a Sheffield colliery manager, invented this flanged rail in...

used for hauling wagons, which preceded steam-powered railways. The terms plateway, tramway, dramway, were used. The advantage of wagonways was that far bigger...

Richard Trevithick for the Coalbrookdale Company, ran on a 3 ft (914 mm) plateway. The first commercially successful steam locomotive was Matthew Murray's...

gauge Railways. Plateway Press. pp. 9–19. ISBN 095111087X. Cooper, Frederick W (1989). The Calshot and Fawley Narrow gauge Railways. Plateway Press. p. 29...

524 mm), as was John Blenkinsop's Middleton Railway; the old 4 ft (1,219 mm) plateway was relaid to 5 ft (1,524 mm) so that Blenkinsop's engine could be used...

Scotland originated in Kilmarnock in 1812 as a horse-drawn 4 ft-gauge plateway and became known as the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway. The first printed...

railways of Europe, vol 2. Brighton: Plateway Press. ISBN 1871980135. ——————— (2003). Rails through Majorca. Norfolk: Plateway Press. ISBN 1871980518. Cañellas...