Talk:William Jessop

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:In 1790, he founded (with fellow engineer Benjamin Outram) the Butterley Iron Works in Derbyshire to manufacture (amongst other things) cast-iron edge rails – a design Jessop had used successfully with flanged wheels on a horse-drawn railway scheme for coal wagons in Loughborough, Leicestershire (1789).
According to our own article Rail transport, edge rails have their own flanges and are used with unflanged wheels. This is backed up by our article Benjamin Outram, which picks him out as a proponent of this form of early railway, without actually using the term edge rail. This probably needs more investigation with original sources, but for now I'm removing the possible error by removing the words with flanged wheels from the above text. -- Chris j wood 13:18, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Interestingly Jessop built the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, which was authorised in 1808 and opened in 1812, to 4ft gauge, using plate rails. He then built colliery extensions, which opened in 1818 to 3ft4in gauge using edge rails, which are described (H.G. Lewin, 1925) as fish bellied rails set in iron chairs spiked to stone sleepers.Pyrotec 10:45, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible confusion on rails and flanges 

message: Jessop's edge rails were also known as fish-belly rails because of their curved shape underneath: here is one online reference which contains a drawing:  http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gansg/2-track/02track1.htm
I actually found some five-footers in my garden in Pembrokeshire, buried amongst some 200 year old coal mining debris - should I upload a photo? Sasha 22:37, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fish-Belly rails 

message: William Jessop (engineer) → William Jessop — The article was called "William Jessop" until some one move it to make way for a dab page to include two leaders of a LDS spliter group.  William Jessop was extremely notable as a canal engineer in UK.  The article "William Jessop" ought thus to refer to him.  I tried to reverse the move but could not, though I did manage to move the dab page to William Jessop (disambigation) to make way for the move back.  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:52, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support.  This subject is the primary meaning and the only William Jessop at William Jessop (disambigation). —  AjaxSmack  16:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

text: Any additional comments:
*Comment the dab page spelled with a typo, "disambiguation" is now no longer a simple redirect, because a bot fixed the double redirect.  76.66.201.179 (talk) 00:41, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support.  This subject is the primary meaning and the only William Jessop at William Jessop (disambigation). —  AjaxSmack  16:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: :Any additional comments:
*Comment the dab page spelled with a typo, "disambiguation" is now no longer a simple redirect, because a bot fixed the double redirect.  76.66.201.179 (talk) 00:41, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion