Fruitless attempts have been made to discover Trevithick's high pressure tram engine, first locomotive to run on rails; event took place Feb 21 1804, along tramway from Penydarren Ironworks to canal basin at Abercynon, in South Wales; after 1841 tramway was used by three iron companies as feeder to Taff Vale Railway and as means of internal communication. From paper before Newcomen Soc.
Trevithick and merthyr tramroad
Engineer
Engineer ; 185 , n 4810 ; p 326
1948
Article (Journal)
English
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