Caerleon Tramroad

[1] The act further allowed anyone who owned an ironworks, quarry or coalmine to request that a tramroad or wagon road be built to link their business to the canal.

[4] Nicholas Blannin requested such a route and when it was refused he built a tramroad at his own cost, and sold a half share of it in 1795.

[2] He also continued the tramroad down to river Usk at Caerleon where he built a wharf and quay.

[2] In 1874 the Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway opened and had powers to acquire the tramroad.

The new standard gauge railway obliterated much of the tramroad although it did continue to operate for some years after south of the works at Ponthir.