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.