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  2. Plateway - Wikipedia

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    The rails have an 'L' cross-section and the wheels have no flange. 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, though some continued later. Plateways consisted of L-shaped rails, where the flange on the rail guides the wheels, in ...

  3. Frame and panel - Wikipedia

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    Frame and panel construction, also called rail and stile, is a woodworking technique often used in the making of doors, wainscoting, and other decorative features for cabinets, furniture, and homes. The basic idea is to capture a 'floating' panel within a sturdy frame, as opposed to techniques used in making a slab solid wood cabinet door or ...

  4. History of the railway track - Wikipedia

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    History of the railway track

  5. Railway turntable - Wikipedia

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    A small turntable at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, California, US. This type of turntable with the central tower and supporting cables is called a "gallows turntable". A larger turntable with several exits, 1909. In engine maintenance facilities, a turntable was usually surrounded, in part or in whole, by a building known as a ...

  6. Merthyr Tramroad - Wikipedia

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    The Merthyr Tramroad (sometimes referred to as the Penydarren Tramroad due to its use by Trevithick's locomotive, built at the ironworks) was a 9.75-mile-long (15.69 km) line that opened in 1802, connecting the private lines belonging to the Dowlais and Penydarren Ironworks with the Glamorganshire Canal at Abercynon, also serving the Plymouth Ironworks along the way.

  7. Plate girder bridge - Wikipedia

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    Overview. In a plate girder bridge, the plate girders are typically I-beams made up from separate structural steel plates (rather than rolled as a single cross-section), which are welded or, in older bridges, bolted or riveted together to form the vertical web and horizontal flanges of the beam. In some cases, the plate girders may be formed in ...

  8. Altar rail - Wikipedia

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    Nineteenth-century wooden and iron altar rails in St Pancras Church, Ipswich. The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination, delimiting the chancel or the sanctuary and altar in a church, [1] [2] from the nave and other parts that contain the congregation.

  9. William Hedley - Wikipedia

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    William Hedley (13 July 1779 – 9 January 1843 [1]) was born in Newburn, near Newcastle upon Tyne. He was one of the leading industrial engineers of the early 19th century, and was instrumental in several major innovations in early railway development. While working as a ' viewer ' or manager at Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, he ...

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