Dear all,
Thank you for letting me join this group.
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.
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.
There is a reference to Cornwall's first railway mine system, in 1783, here;
http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=22543
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?
Best wishes
Tanya J.
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