Hi Barry, Google, Stablehill Colliery it should bring up top of the list a PDF doc. in it is a map showing the location of Jackfied Rails. All the best Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry" <barrydeakin@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] place name in Broseley > Hi thanks for the help. In the census it looked like Trails in the earlier > ones but on reflection looks like rails in the newer censuses. As to the > Mone wood I have been sent a copy of a map showing it between the Milburgh > Tileries and a number of colliers so perhaps there was some sort of > railway > there which I cannot see. > > Regards > Barry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Knott [mailto:ken_knott@ntlworld.com] > Sent: 30 January 2010 17:03 > To: eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] place name in Broseley > > Hi Barry, > As Michael points out it should be Jackfield Rails they were the rail > lines > running North to South near Jackfield connected the mines. > > All the best > Ken > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael J Hulme" <hulmemj@googlemail.com> > To: <eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:46 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] place name in Broseley > > >> Hello Barry >> >> I think you will find your first reference should read Jackfield Rails >> rather than Trails and it was somewhere in Jackfield as the name >> suggests. I would guess this might refer to some sort of narrow gauge >> track for the movement of local material. > > > > > > REMEMBER - The question you are asking may have already been answered. > Threaded Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/Archives > > Searchable Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Ken wonderful Regards Barry -----Original Message----- From: Ken Knott [mailto:ken_knott@ntlworld.com] Sent: 01 February 2010 20:28 To: eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] place name in Broseley Hi Barry, Google, Stablehill Colliery it should bring up top of the list a PDF doc. in it is a map showing the location of Jackfied Rails. All the best Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry" <barrydeakin@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] place name in Broseley > Hi thanks for the help. In the census it looked like Trails in the earlier > ones but on reflection looks like rails in the newer censuses. As to the > Mone wood I have been sent a copy of a map showing it between the Milburgh > Tileries and a number of colliers so perhaps there was some sort of > railway > there which I cannot see. > > Regards > Barry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Knott [mailto:ken_knott@ntlworld.com] > Sent: 30 January 2010 17:03 > To: eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] place name in Broseley > > Hi Barry, > As Michael points out it should be Jackfield Rails they were the rail > lines > running North to South near Jackfield connected the mines. > > All the best > Ken > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael J Hulme" <hulmemj@googlemail.com> > To: <eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:46 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] place name in Broseley > > >> Hello Barry >> >> I think you will find your first reference should read Jackfield Rails >> rather than Trails and it was somewhere in Jackfield as the name >> suggests. I would guess this might refer to some sort of narrow gauge >> track for the movement of local material. > > > > > > REMEMBER - The question you are asking may have already been answered. > Threaded Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/Archives > > Searchable Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message