John Urpeth Rastrick - Links

Bridges

• Chepstow Bridges - road and rail, Wye and Severn

Family

• Rastrick Website
• Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: The Rastrick Family Home Page

Ironworks

Sidney Smith Castings Ltd. - formerly part of John Bradley & Co

• History -1 (JUR) (archived - no images)
• History - 2 - Agenoria (archived - no images)
• History - 3 - Stourbridge Lion

Libraries

• Goldsmiths' Library Supplementary Collections
• The collection of John Urpeth Rastrick, civil and mechanical engineer, and railway pioneer. In 1908, 250 items from the collection were bought with a grant from the Goldsmiths' Company, and incorporated into the transport history section of the Goldsmiths' Library. Contains 211 printed books of 1768-1887, mostly 1821-50 and almost all railway (with a few canal) engineering reports and prospectuses, manuscript notebooks, specifications and estimates.
• AIM25: University of London (Library - Senate House): RASTRICK, Henry (fl 1838-1884)
• The collection contains notebooks of sketches and drawings, 1838-1841; levelling books, 1840-1880; and Henry Rastrick's diary for 1884.

Locomotives

• The Stourbridge Lion
• Wayne County, Pennsylvania - The Stourbridge Line; Tourism - About Wayne County
• The Evolution of the American Locomotive.--Scientific American Supplement April 24, 1897
• -- In Search of Agenoria -- a photographic exploration of the Black Country, includes page about Agenoria locomotive
• Into history.... - plan to commemorate bicentenary of Catch-me-who-can, by Bridgnorth historian, Christopher Magner

People

• Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) - Trevithick Day site
• PPE - AWS, Scott and the School of Engineering - Christchurch NZ, possible link with JUR

Places

• Dudley MBC: History - short account of Stourbridge mentions Stourbridge Lion

Railways

• Worth Way Walk - Three Bridges -East Grinstead Railway walk, mentions JUR devising railway in 1845, but not opened until 1855.
• Grand Junction Railway - history, JUR's involvement
• Liverpool and Manchester
• MECHANICS MAGAZINE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24TH, 1829 - Rainhill Trials
• Stourbridge Junction
• Stourbridge Canals - LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILROAD BILL.Mr., John Urpeth Rastrick examined by Mr. Wm. Brougham, 1825
• London and Brighton
• LB&SCR Locomotives - Class: B2: Billinton B2 class (4-4-0) 320 Rastrick 1896-1906/1910 (London Brighton and South Coast Railway site, but no other mention of JUR
• Billinton E2 class (0-6-0T) basis for Thomas the Tank Engine - Lawson B. Billinton was the son of Rastrick engineer Robert J.Billinton

Societies

• Newcomen Society
• ICE: the Institution of Civil Engineers
• Fellow Royal Society 19/01/1837 Sackler Archive Resource - search - name Rastrick

© Carolyn Bedwell, 2002

Page compiled by carolyn
Last updated 17th June, 2006.