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The Grosmont Railway was an early horse-drawn railway line in Monmouthshire completed in 1819. ==History== 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 gauge plateway, and was horse drawn throughout. The Act of Parliament for the railway received the Royal Assent on 20 May 1812,〔(Joseph Priestley: Priestley's Navigable Rivers and Canals, 1831 )〕 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 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.〔Helen J Simpson: The Day the Trains Came: the Herefordshire Railways, Gracewing Publishing, 1997〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grosmont Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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