Benjamin Outram (1 April 1764 - 22 May 1805) was an English civil engineer. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering. ...

Born at Alfreton in Derbyshire, Outram was a civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist. Alfreton is a town in the Amber Valley, Derbyshire, although some parts of the town are in the Bolsover district and North East Derbyshire district. ... Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... Surveyor at work with a leveling instrument. ...

Benjamin began his career assisting his father Joseph Outram, who described himself as an "agriculturalist" but this covered many duties from arbitrating in the many disputes which arose from the enclosures acts to advising on land management and surveying for new mines. In this, he was scrupulously honest and well respected. The enclosure acts were a series of agricultural laws passed by Parliament in 19th century England. ...

When William Jessop was approached to design and build the Cromford Canal he therefore found an extremely able assistant in the 24 year-old Benjamin. William Jessop (23 January 1745 - 18 November 1814) was a noted English civil engineer, particularly famed for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ... The Cromford Canal ran 14. ...

Building the canal, particularly Butterley Tunnel, revealed substantial mineral deposits. It so happened that Butterley Hall came on the market and Francis Beresford, solicitor to the canal company, impressed by the young Outram's ability, bought the freehold of the hall and its estate. He leased it on a moiety to Outram until the latter had acquired enough capital for a fifty percent holding. The Eastern Portal of Butterley Tunnel in 2006 The Butterley Reservoir Adit where it enters the Butterley Tunnel about 600 yards along the tunnel from the Western Portal in 2006 The View from inside Butterley Tunnel in 2006 Tunnel Roof Supported by Timbers about 60 yards from East Portal photographed... Freehold is a term used in real estate or real property law, land held in fee simple, as opposed to leasehold, which is land which is leased. ... Look up moiety in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

This was the beginning of the ironworks, 'Benjamin Outram & Company' which began trading in 1790. The following year William Jessop and John Wright, a Nottingham banker, also became partners. The Butterley Engineering sign in 2006 The Butterley Company was an engineering works in the Ripley area of Derbyshire. ... Year 1790 (MDCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...

Outram became the leading advocate in the construction of tramways using L-section rails, which were manufactured at his ironworks together with all the waggons. His first tramway was a line, just over a mile (1.6 km) in length, to carry limestone from quarries at Crich to Bullbridge Wharf on the Cromford Canal, for use by his works. Map sources for Crich at grid reference SK350544 Crich is a village in Derbyshire. ... The Cromford Canal ran 14. ...

In 1792 he became engineer for the Nottingham Canal and in 1793 the Derby Canal, working in the meantime on the Nutbrook Canal. 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Nottingham Canal was a 14. ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Derby Canal ran 14 miles from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Swarkestone to the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre, Derbyshire, England. ... Parts of the Nutbrook Canal still have water in 2006 This is Old Furnace Lock the third on the canal near to Ilkeston, it has lost its gates but the valve gear can be seen in this image in 2006 Nutbrook Canal was a canal in England between Shipley, Derbyshire...

He is, perhaps, best known for the 44 ft (13 m) long single-span Holmes Aqueduct on the Derby Canal, which opened in February 1796 and was one of the world's first cast-iron aqueducts (it was demolished in 1971). It was cast by Benjamin Outram & Company and it predated Thomas Telford's much longer aqueduct on the Shrewsbury Canal at Longdon-on-Tern by one month. Pont du Gard, France, a Roman aqueduct built circa 19 BC. It is one of Frances top tourist attractions and a World Heritage Site. ... Year 1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... Thomas Telford (August 9, 1757 - September 2, 1834) was born in Westerkirk, Scotland. ... The Shrewsbury Canal was a canal in Shropshire, England. ... Longdon-on-Tern (also known as Longdon-upon-Tern) is a village in south Shropshire, England, situated approximately seven miles east of Shrewsbury and seven miles north-west of Telford. ...

However an important extension to the Derby Canal was the Little Eaton Gangway, which was a feeder for the Derby Canal, built on the pattern of that at Crich, and such tramways became an important part of his later canals. Some people say that the word "tramway" comes from his own surname but this is incorrect. It comes from the Low German word "traam" which mean a "beam" (of a wheelbarrow). In fact, Outram always referred to them as railways. The Little Eaton Gangway by the Little Eaton Branch of the Derby Canal Following authorisation by Parliament, work began on the construction of the Derby Canal with Benjamin Outram as the Consulting Engineer. ... The Derby Canal ran 14 miles from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Swarkestone to the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre, Derbyshire, England. ... A CLRV Streetcar in the City of Toronto. ...

I beg to differ:- "Once timber, colliery 'plate-ways' in the northeast had been improved by using cast-iron rails, at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, Mr. Benjamin Outram introduced 'props' of stone for supporting the joints and ends of the rails; and his plan was generally followed in the construction of new colliery 'plate-ways'. The roads thus formed were known as 'Outram roads'; or for brevity 'tram roads'. These were the immediate predecessors of public railways; the stone 'prop' being superseded by the wooden 'sleeper'. Many of these smaller, industrial lines were called tram-ways, leading to public tramways. So Mr. Outram gave his name to such railways and their vehicles were thus called Trams." [Quoted from my book - Great Engineers - by J.F.Layson - published in 1890.]

He was also the consulting engineer for the construction of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal which included the pioneering Standedge Canal Tunnel. In 1794 he was also responsible for the Peak Forest Canal, which included the Marple Aqueduct The climb from Bugsworth was negotiated by the six mile-long Peak Forest Tramway. Stodhart Tunnel on this tramway is believed to be the first railway tunnel in Derbyshire, Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... The tunnel entrance at Marsden The Standedge Tunnels (Standedge is normally pronounced Stannige) are four parallel tunnels that run beneath the Pennines at the traditional Standedge crossing point between Marsden and Diggle, on the edges of the conurbations of West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester respectively, in northern England. ... 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... South portal of Hyde Bank Tunnel, early 20th century Greens Hall Bridge near Disley, early 20th century The Peak Forest Canal runs from a junction with the Ashton Canal at the southern end of the Tame Aqueduct at Dukinfield through Newton, Hyde, Woodley, Romiley, Marple, Strines, Disley, New Mills, Furness... Marple Aqueduct, August 1994 Marple Aqueduct, also known as the Grand Aqueduct, carries the lower level of the Peak Forest Canal across the River Goyt at Marple, Greater Manchester, in north-west England. ... Buxworth, originally Bugsworth, which seemed to offend pious ears – hence the change – is a village in the Blackbrook valley in the borough of High Peak , Derbyshire on the edge of the Peak District of Englands Pennine Range. ... Map sources for Peak Forest Tramway at grid reference SK049800 Waggon gang, 1905 The gravity operated Peak Forest Tramway was originally planned to be about four miles long from Chapel Milton to Dove Holes, both in Derbyshire. ... A disused railway tunnel now converted to pedestrian and bicycle use, near Houyet, Belgium A tunnel is an underground passage. ...

In 1798, he was retained to complete the final section of the Ashton Canal which included the Store Street Aqueduct, among the first to solve the problem of skew arches. 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jockeys Swivel and Footbridge at Lumb Lane, Droylsden, c1900 Portland Basin, Ashton-under-Lyne, with the Tame Aqueduct in the foreground, 1962 The Ashton Canal runs six miles (10 km) from central Manchester to Ashton-under-Lyne and it rises through 18 locks to make a head-on junction... The Store Street Aqueduct in Manchester, England was built in 1798 by Benjamin Outram on the Ashton Canal. ...

Meanwhile he was building railways for the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal and was asked to advise on railways for the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal. The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is a 22 mile (35 km) long canal in England which travels between Bedworth in Warwickshire and the Leicestershire village of Snarestone. ... The Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal is isolated from the rest of the United Kingdoms canals. ...

He foresaw that, within a few years, that railways would become the principal mode of transport. In 1799, he wrote while building the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal railway at four foot two inch gauge, it appears that many hogsheads and packages require carriages . . . wider than those at Derby and Crich and it seems desirable that all extensive railways should be of the same width and that width should be sufficient to suit all the puposes of trade. The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is a 22 mile (35 km) long canal in England which travels between Bedworth in Warwickshire and the Leicestershire village of Snarestone. ...

He died of a brain fever in London in 1805. After his death, Benjamin Outram and Company was renamed Butterley Company Ltd in 1809. 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1809 (MDCCCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Reference

Schofield, R.B., (2000) Benjamin Outram, Cardiff: Merton Priory Press