The Severn and Wye Railway began as an early tramroad network established in the Forest of Dean to facilitate the carriage of minerals to watercourses for onward conveyance. It was based on Lydney, where a small harbour was constructed, and opened its line to Parkend in 1810.

The Severn & Wye Railway and Canal Company was formed primarily to transport coal and iron ore from the centre of the Forest of Dean to outlets such as Lydney. Starting life as a horse-drawn tramway, it was converted to a railway in the middle of the 19th Century.

The Severn & Wye contests the rival Forest of Dean Railway's plans to construct a new harbour and line in the eastern valleys. The plan is dropped.

The Severn and Wye Railway was sanctioned by 49 Geo. III., c. 159, of June 10th, 1809, for a railway or tramway from the river Wye at Lydbrook to the river Severn at the Lower Forge or Cross Pill at Lydney - built in West Gloucestershire to allow exploitation of the mineral resources of the Forest of Dean.

2024年9月10日 · The Severn Bridge Railway “The Severn Bridge was opened for passenger traffic on 17th October 1879. That year, the Severn & Wye Railway & Canal Company amalgamated with the Severn Bridge Railway, and was incorporated under the name of the ‘Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge Railway Company’.

The Severn Bridge Railway was a railway company which constructed a railway from Lydney to Sharpness in Gloucestershire, England. It was intended chiefly to give access for minerals in the Forest of Dean to Sharpness Docks, and the company built a long bridge, 1,387 yards (1,268 m) in length, over the River Severn.

The Severn Bridge itself was an engineering achievement, but commercially somewhat of a "White Elephant". 4,162 feet in length. it consisted of 21 wrought-iron bowstring girders on concrete-filled cast piers sunk into the River Severn, with …

The history of the Severn & Wye and Severn Bridge Railway is traced in detail from its inception as a horse-drawn tramway, through its conversion into a fully-fledged railway network and the later takeover by the Great Western and Midland Railways.

In 1868 the Severn and Wye railway decided to construct a broad gauge railway from Lydney to Parkend. It opened in April 1869, marking the end of the Company’s narrow gauge era. The S&W went on to merge with the Severn Bridge Railway in 1885.

This volume describes the Severn & Wye and the Severn Bridge Railways against a backdrop of the laws and traditions of the Royal Forest and of the collieries and industries the company sought to serve.