flanch

Updated: June 20, 2025

William Jessop constructed a railway at Loughborough, in Leicestershire, and there introduced the cast-iron edge-rail, with flanches cast upon the tire of the waggon-wheels to keep them on the track, instead of having the margin or flanch cast upon the rail itself; and this plan was shortly after adopted in other places. In 1800, Mr.

Samuel Smiles - Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson