The Merthyr Tramroad (sometimes referred to as the Penydarren Tramroad due to its use by Trevithick's locomotive built at that 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. Famous as the line on which Richard Trevithick's experimental locomotive hauled the first train to carry a load (of 10 tons of iron). It was largely superseded when the Taff Vale Railway opened in 1841 and sections gradually went out of use over the two decades from about 1851.
The MerthyrTramroad (sometimes referred to as the Penydarren Tramroad due to its use by Trevithick's locomotive built at that ironworks) was a 9.75-mile-long...
happened in Merthyr in 1804, travelling 9 mi (14 km) from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Glamorganshire Canal on the MerthyrTramroad. The 1851 census...
Canal, the other Merthyr Tydfil ironworks built a tramroad to Abercynon, bypassing the upper sections of the canal. This "Penydarren Tramroad" (more correctly...
squeeze the profits of the other ironmasters led to them proposing a Tramroad from Merthyr to Cardiff, to compete with the canal. Crawshay resisted this, and...
Numerous horse-drawn tramroads were constructed in South Wales during the Industrial Revolution, chiefly between the years 1790 and 1830 and connected...
Brewers Fayre Restaurant with a Premier Inn attached. The original MerthyrTramroad, built in 1802, ran alongside the site of the modern day village, on...
"Penydarren" steam locomotive operates on the MerthyrTramroad between Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon in South Wales, following...
The Sirhowy Tramroad was a plateway built to convey the products of ironworks at Tredegar to Newport, South Wales. It opened in 1805 between Tredegar and...
Aberfan, part of the Merthyr Vale community. Below Aberfan, the river enters a wooded section, and the remains of the MerthyrTramroad are sandwiched between...
along tracks, now known as the MerthyrTramroad, carrying both iron ore and passengers, from Penydarren near Merthyr Tydfil, via Pontygwaith, south to...
ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil, Wales: Dowlais, Plymouth and Penydarren, collaborated in building the 9.5-mile MerthyrTramroad between Merthyr Tydfil and...
1990). The Archaeology of an Early Railway System: The Brecon Forest Tramroads. Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales. ISBN 9781871184051...
Retrieved 2007-12-13. Rattenbury, Gordon; Lewis, M. J. T. (2004). Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads and their Locomotives. Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society...
MerthyrTramroad, used by Richard Trevithick's Penydarren steam locomotive. This stretch has been recently upgraded, but the original stone tramroad sleepers...
Trevithick's steam locomotive could haul 10 tons of iron along the Merthyr Tydfil Tramroad from Penydarren (51°45′03″N 3°22′33″W / 51.750825°N 3.375761°W...
canal in 1839 to the dock that became Bute West Dock. In 1802 the MerthyrTramroad was opened, connecting the Dowlais and other ironworks with the Glamorganshire...
Engineered by Crawshay Bailey in 1821, this tramroad (sometimes also referred to as Bailey's Tramroad) traverses the southeastern slopes of the gorge...
Committee of the Company of Proprietors of the Oystermouth Railway or Tramroad Company, which included many prominent citizens of Swansea, including the...
built Penydarren steam locomotive operates on the MerthyrTramroad, between Penydarren in Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon in South Wales, following several...
"Penydarren" steam locomotive operates on the MerthyrTramroad between Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon in South Wales, following...
the name had changed to the Corris, Machynlleth & River Dovey Railway or Tramroad which was planned to run down the Dulas Valley and then along the north...
coal pit. Steam engine haulage was tried by Richard Trevithick on the MerthyrTramroad from Penydarren to Abercynon in 1804, but proved unsatisfactory, partly...
Charles. The tramroad was constructed between 1802 and 1805 or 1806. Branches would be built to the limestone quarries at Trefil (the Trefil Tramroad) and to...
locomotive for the narrow gauge MerthyrTramroad in South Wales (sometimes - but incorrectly - called the "Penydarren Tramroad"). The Penydarren locomotive...
"Penydarren" steam locomotive operates on the MerthyrTramroad between Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon in South Wales, following...
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