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" Colebrook-dale, in Shropshire, where cast-iron was indisputably first applied to the construction of bridges, and, according to the information which I have been able to obtain, it was here also that Rail-ways of that material were first constructed.... "
Struttura urbana della architettura - Page 131
by Cesare Blasi - 1824 - 85 pages
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A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General ...

Nicholas Wood - Canals - 1825 - 350 pages
...been pretty extensive, states, " I some years since visited the great iron-works of Colebrook-dale, in Shropshire, where cast-iron was indisputably first...extensive and long-established Company, that between five and six tons of rails were cast on the 13th of November, 1767, as an experiment, on the suggestion...
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A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads: And Interior Communication in General ...

Nicholas Wood - Railroads - 1832 - 664 pages
...require thirty years to discover, that, with a lighter load, they could be made to answer. formation which I have been able to obtain, it was here also...extensive and long-established Company, that between five and six tons of rails were cast on the 13th of November, 1767, as an experiment, on the suggestion...
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Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Volume 1

Railroad engineering - 1832 - 426 pages
...ndiiputably first applied in the construction of ridges, and, ' according. to the information which I iave been able to obtain, it was here also that Railways...constructed. It appears from the books of this extensive and longistablished company, that beiween five aud six ton* if rails were cast on the 13th of November....
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A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General ...

Nicholas Wood - Railroad engineering - 1838 - 830 pages
..." I some years since visited the great iron-works of Colebrook Dale, in Shropshire, where cast iron was indisputably first applied to the construction...extensive and long-established Company, that between five and six tons of rails were cast on the 13th of November 1767, as an experiment, on the suggestion...
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Osborne's London & Birmingham railway guide

E.C. and W. Osborne - Birmingham (England) - 1840 - 334 pages
...hand, Mr. R. Stephenson states, " I, some years since, visited the great iron works of Colehrook Dale, in Shropshire, where cast-iron was indisputably first...extensive and long-established company, that between five and six tons of rails were cast on the 13th of November, 1767, as an experiment, on the suggestion...
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A History of the English Railway: Its Social Relations and ..., Volume 1

John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - Railroads - 1851 - 332 pages
...Robert Stephenson, " visited the great iron works at Colebrook Dale, in Shropshire, where cast iron was indisputably first applied to the construction...that material were first constructed. It appears from their books that between five and six tons of rails were cast on the 13th November, 1767, as an experiment,...
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The History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and Its Various Branches ...

George Markham Tweddell - 1869 - 138 pages
...iron. " I, some years ago," said EGBERT STEPHENSON, " visited the great ironworks at Cole-brook Dale, in Shropshire, where cast-iron was indisputably first...that material were first constructed. It appears from their books, that between five and six tons of rails were cast on the 13th November, 1767, as an experiment,...
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Magazine of Western History, Volume 8

United States - 1888 - 722 pages
...been pretty extensive, states: "I some years since visited the great iron works of Colebrook Dale, in Shropshire, where cast-iron was indisputably first...I have been able to obtain, it was here also that the railways of that material were first constructed. It appears, from the books of this extensive...
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Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the American Railway ..., Volume 1

American Railway Engineering Association - Railroads - 1900 - 280 pages
...have been pretty extensive, states : 'I some years ago visited the great iron works of Colebrookdale, in Shropshire, where cast-iron was indisputably first...were first constructed. It appears, from the books of the extensive and long-established company, that between five and six tons of rails were cast on the...
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Railway ..., Volume 1

American Railway Engineering Association - Railroad engineering - 1900 - 252 pages
...have been pretty extensive, states : 'I some years ago visited the great iron works of Colebrookdale, in Shropshire, where cast-iron was indisputably first...according to the information which I have been able to obtam, it was here also that railways of that material were first constructed. It appears, from the...
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