Dear Tanya
Chauncy Townsend(sometimes Townshend) (d. 1770) might be of interest to you. He was a mine developer in Wales and Cornwall, and supplied copper to the East India Company. In Cornwall he had was involved with mines at St. Agnes through the 1750s. He had a daughter-in-law who was a Nankivell and a son-in-law Col. Willyams of St Columb Major. In Wales he built a large waggonway system in the 1750s (see Morgannwg vol 21 1977). While I can not say for certain, there is a possibility that Townsend would have brought this technology to Cornwall.
Yours Richard VandeWetering
On 06/27/13, Tanya <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear all,
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> Thank you for letting me join this group.
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> I am Tanya Jackson, the British Railways carriage steward of the Historical
> Model Railway society and author of British Rail: The Nation's railway, to
> be published by The History Press in October.
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> Not a lot to do with mining there, I know.
>
> The reason why I have joined this group is that I am currently writing a
> book on the railways of mid-Cornwall that grew out of the Treffry tramway
> system. This is a subject which fascinates me and has enabled me to fulfil a
> lifetime's desire to research Cornish mining.
>
> At the moment I am trying to trace the precursors of the Treffry tramway
> system.
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> There is a reference to Cornwall's first railway mine system, in 1783, here;
> http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=22543
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> M J T Lewis, in Ealry Wooden Railways, informs me that there were basically
> two cultures in terms of ealry railways in Britain, those of Shropshire and
> Tyneside. Does Cornwall feature as a "colony" (to use Lewis' term) of either
> of these?
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> Best wishes
>
> Tanya J.
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