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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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utram, an engi-neer, in adoptingthis rail on the pub-lic railway at LittleEaton, in Derby-shire, first intro-duced stone propsinstead of timberfor supporting theends and joiningthe rails. Mr. Outram, how-ever, was not thefirst who made useof stone supports, as the late Mr. Barnes employed them in foini-ing the first railroad which was laid down inthe neighborhood of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,viz.: from Lawson Main Colliery to theriver, in 1797. In my copy of the Engi-neers and Mechanics Encyclopaedia, bvHebert, now a rare book, under the headRailways it is stated: The earliest account we have of theintroduction of railways is in the Life of the Lord Keeper North, from which itappears that about the year 1670 they weremade use of at Newcastle-upon-Tyne fortransporting coals from the mines to theshipping in the river. These railways wereconstructed of timber. It is stated bysome authors that these wooden rails weresubsequently improved upon by makingledges at their sides to prevent the wagons
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as 1776, or twenty-four years before Outrambuilt his road, although Smeaton, in writingto a lady, used the expression coal-wagonroads in 1779, probably because she mightnot understand the new word. Mr. Smiles, inhis Life of Stephenson, accredits the originof the word to Outram, by dropping thefirst syllable, but we have seen that Outramdid nothing to warrant such distinction.Mr. Wood was livingat the same time,and we have seenthat in his opinionMr. Outram did noth-ing but use stone,and was anticipatedtherein by Mr.Barnes. If the useof stone was consid-ered a matter of suchprime importance bythe people of thatday, the roads shouldhave been called Barnesway, orsome equivalentword recognizing theman who did intro-duce stone, antici-pating Mr. Outramby three years!! Itherefore do notthink the word wasderived from Ou-tram. but rather fromthe old English word,o trammle. Web-sters Dictionary of1850 defined to tram-mel—1st, to catch, tointercept; 2d, to con-fine, to hamper, toshackle. It ha

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