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Plateway in west Wales (1803–1844)
The Carmarthenshire Railway was a horse-worked plateway built in South Wales in 1803.
History [ edit ]
The Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad was authorised under an Act of Parliament of 3 June 1802 – the first granted for a public railway in Wales – to acquire the existing Carmarthenshire Dock at Llanelly and its feeder tramroad built by Alexander Raby by 1799,[1] thus incidentally becoming the world's first dock-owning public railway company.[2] The first 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Cwmddyche ironworks down to the sea was open in May 1803 – the first stretch of public railway in use in Britain[1] – and construction ceased in 1805 when the line had reached Gorslas . The engineer was named James Barnes and the gauge was approximately 4 ft (1,219 mm ).[1]
The line ceased to operate in or before 1844 and portions of its course were utilised by the Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway , opened in 1881.[1]
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Historic Welsh railway companies
Great Western Railway
Aberdare Railway
Aberdare Valley Railway
Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway
Alexandra Docks and Railway
Bala and Dolgelly Railway
Bala and Festiniog Railway
Barry Dock and Railway
Barry Railway
Blaenavon Tramroad
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway
Brecon and Merthyr Railway
Bridgend Railway
Bristol and South Wales Union Railway
Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway
Cambrian Railways
Cardiff Railway
Cardiff and Ogmore Railway
Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway
Carmarthenshire Railway
Clarbeston Road and Letterston Railway
Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway
Corris Railway
Corwen and Bala Railway
Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway
Ely and Clydach Valleys Railway
Ely Valley Railway
Ely Valley Extension Railway
Gwendraeth Valleys Railway
Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway
Kington Tramway
Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway
Llancaiach Branch
Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway
Llanidloes and Newtown Railway
Llangollen and Corwen Railway
Llangurig branch
Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway
Llynvi and Ogmore Railway
Maerdy Branch
Manchester and Milford Railway
Mawddwy Railway
Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
Mid-Wales Railway
Monmouth and Hereford Railway
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company
Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway
Neath and Brecon Railway
Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Newtown and Machynlleth Railway
North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway
North Wales Mineral Railway
Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway
Oswestry and Newtown Railway
Pembroke and Tenby Railway
Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway
Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway
Port Talbot Railway
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Rhymney Railway
Rumney Railway
Ross and Monmouth Railway
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway
Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Chester Junction Railway
South Wales Railway
Taff Vale Railway
Tanat Valley Light Railway
Vale of Glamorgan Railway
Vale of Llangollen Railway
Vale of Neath Railway
Vale of Rheidol Railway
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
West Midland Railway
Whitland and Cardigan Railway
Wye Valley Railway
Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway
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