A plateway is an early kind of railway or tramway or wagonway, with a cast iron rail. They were mainly used for about 50 years up to 1830, though some continued later. Plateways consisted of `L` shaped rails where a flange on the rail guided the wheels in contrast to edgeways, where flanges on the wheel guide it along the track. Plateways were o.....
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(from the article `railroad`) A development of the late Middle Ages, the plateway, suggested a means to make steam-powered land transport practicable. In central Europe most of ...
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