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The Llanfyllin Branch and Oswestry to Llanymynech

The Llanfyllin Branch and Oswestry to Llanymynech – Part 1 … The Llanfyllin Branch was featured in an article by Stanley Jenkins in the October 2003 issue of Steam Days magazine. [3] The immediately adjacent Tanat Valley Light Railway is...

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Henry Robinson Palmer and Early British Monorails

Henry Robinson Palmer and Early British Monorails Henry Robinson Palmer (1793-1844) was a British engineer who designed the first monorail system and also invented corrugated iron! Born in 1793 in Hackney, he was the son of the Revd Samuel...

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Early Monorail Proposals in Russia

I came across this when looking into early railways. ... Ivan Kirillovich Elmanov (Russian: Иван Кириллович Эльманов) was a Russian inventor. During 1820, in Myachkovo, near Moscow, he built a type of monorail described as a road on pillars. [3]...

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Roger Farnworth replied to the thread Stockport's Tramways.

Stockport Corporation Tramways – Part 2 (Modern Tramway Vol. 12 No. 138, June 1949) This is a second article looking at Stockport Corporations Tramways. Mersey Square was the main hub of Stockport’s tramway network and appeared as a schematic...