Grosmont Railway
The Grosmont Railway was a British railway company based in Monmouthshire in Wales .
The company was founded on May 12, 1812. The eleven-kilometer horse-drawn tram planned by John Hodgkinson connected the places Llanvihangel Crucorney and Monmouth Cap near Grosmont . In Llanvihangel Crucorney there was a connection via the Llanvihangel Railway to Abergavenny . The 1067 mm (3 feet, 6 inch) track opened in 1818/1819. With the Hereford Railway built in 1829 , the route was continued to Hereford .
The line was built for 16,250 pounds. Shareholders of the Grosmont Railway were among other things Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort and Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny .
In 1846 the Grosmont Railway was acquired by the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway . This built its railway line between the namesake places on the track bed.
literature
- Christopher Awdry: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Stephens, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Helen J. Simpson: The day the trains came . the Herefordshire railways: the people who built them and who rejoiced when they arrived. Gracewing Publishing, 1997, ISBN 978-0-85244-374-3 , pp. 51 ( Google Books ).