The Grosmont Railway was an early horse-drawn railway line in Monmouthshire completed in 1819.
6-470: The Grosmont Railway was constructed as an extension of the Llanvihangel Railway from its terminus at Llanvihangel Crucorney to Monmouth Cap on the border with Herefordshire . With a length of approximately seven miles (11 km), it was engineered by John Hodgkinson as a 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm ) gauge plateway , and was horse drawn throughout. The act of Parliament for
12-620: Is designated a scheduled monument . Llanvihangel Railway The Llanvihangel Railway was an early horse-drawn railway line in Monmouthshire which operated over a 6.25 mile route between the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal and Llanvihangel Crucorney from 1814 until 1846. The act of Parliament for the railway, the Llanvihangel Railway Act 1811 ( 51 Geo. 3 . c. cxxiii), received royal assent on 25 May 1811. The line
18-701: The River Usk by means of a bridge constructed immediately adjacent to the existing road bridge , on its upstream side, but at a higher level above the river, then north past Abergavenny to the village of Llanvihangel Crucorney where it met with the Grosmont Railway . By 1829 the Llanvihangel Railway connected in turn with the Hereford Railway . Following the decommissioning of the Usk bridge for railway use, it
24-558: The Llanvihangel Railway for £21,750 and the Hereford Railway for £19,460. The new company replaced the combined tramroads with a standard-gauge steam railway. The replacement railway was built to the north of the old line, while the tramroad became a road (now part of the main A465 road between Abergavenny and Hereford). At Werngifford a major remnant survives in the form of a 360m length of tramroad embankment with stone sleepers in situ. It
30-629: The railway, the Grosmont Railway Act 1812 ( 52 Geo. 3 . c. cvii) received royal assent on 20 May 1812, construction started in 1817 and the line opened in 1819. In 1829 the Hereford Railway was completed with an end-on connection with the Grosmont Railway at Monmouth Cap and extending the line to Wye Bridge at Hereford . The Grosmont Railway was sold in 1846 to the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway Company for £16,250, along with
36-469: Was initially constructed only as far as Blaengavenny and it was 1820 or 1821 before it was extended to Llanvihangel. Its construction followed unsuccessful attempts in 1793 and 1810 to construct a canal from Abergavenny to the Wye at Hereford. Two other similar but unsuccessful tramroad schemes were also promoted in 1810. The railway was constructed from a coal wharf on the canal east by way of Llanfoist , across
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