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John Urpeth Rastrick - Works

Note - at present this list is just notes of names of projects that had some connection with JUR as I come across them.

Bridges

Chepstow road bridge, opened 24th July, 1816
28 arch viaduct over Preston Road in Brighton, also called London Road Viaduct.
Ouse Valley viaduct (with David Mocatta)

Hay Railway - designed bridge over Wye, but it wasn't built.

Canals

Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, 1835?
Designed ship canal from Lewes to Newhaven, 1838

Other

Waste heat boiler.
Plant for ironworks in Midlands and South Wales eg Chillington Iron Works near Wolverhampton, Shut Engine near Stourbridge
Stourbridge Foundry buildings for Foster & Rastrick, 1820-1
Sluice winding gear, Eardington Upper Forge, Shropshire, 1820
Sea Wall, Henbury
Cast iron girders for British Museum
Custom House, London - 1825, ironwork supplied by Foster, Rastrick & Co.

Railways

Stratford-upon-Avon to Moreton-in-Marsh Tramway, horse drawn, 1823. Authorised 1821, opened 1826.
Shutt End, 1829 - Agenoria
Kenyon & Leigh Railway, Sept 1829. Opened 1831.
Grand Junction Railway (Birmingham & Liverpool), 1831. Act 1833, opened 1837.
Dublin & Kingstown Railway, Act 1831, opened 1834.
Leeds and Selby Railway, ironwork contractor, 1831. Opened 1834
Manchester & Cheshire Junction Railway (intend to run from Manchester to join the Grand Junction Railway at Crewe), 1836. Authorised in 1837 as the Manchester and Birmingham Railway.
London and Brighton Railway (and branches) 1830s and 1840s.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, 1836. Act 1838, opened in 1842.
Bolton and Preston Railway, 1837. Act 1837, opened 1843.
West Cumberland, Furness and Morecambe Railway, surveyed 1839. Not built until 1856.
Gravesend and Rochester Railway and Canal Company, opened 1845
Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway, 1845. Opened 1850, from Colwick Junction, Nottingham to Grantham.

projected

Consulted over a proposed railway connecting to the Forest Line of the Leicester Navigation (bill withdrawn), 1833
Stourbridge - Dudley - Birmingham Railway, 1835
Manchester Connexion Railway, 1837
South Metropolitan, later Bermondsey and Lambeth, Railway, 1838
London and Horsham Railway, 1839
Manchester and Derby Railway, 1839
Leek - Stoke on Trent Railway, 1840
Stockport - Macclesfield Railway, 1840
East Anglian Railway - Bishop's Stortford to Norwich and Yarmouth, 1841
London - Cambridge - Norwich - Yarmouth Railway, 1841
Grand Connexion Railway (Worcester and Wolverhampton), 1844
The Kentish Railway, 1844
Lynn and Ely Railway, 1844
City and Camden Town (Birmingham Junction) Railway 1845
Direct London and Manchester Railway, 1845
Ely and Bury St. Edmunds Railway, 1845
Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway, 1845
Grand Trunk Railway connecting Midland and Grand Junction Railways 1845
Great County Down, Belfast, Newry and Warrenpoint Railway, 1845
Great Gwendraeth Vale and Welsh Junction Railway, 1845
Leicester, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Burton-Upon-Trent and Stafford Junction Railway, 1845
Leicester, Melton Mowbray and Boston Direct Union Railway, 1845
Lincoln and Grantham Direct Railway, 1845
Liverpool and Bolton Direct Railway, 1845
Lynn and East Dereham, 1845
Lynn and Fakenham, 1845
Manchester and Milford Haven Railway, 1845
Midland Grand Junction Railway, 1845
Northampton, Lincoln and Hull Railway, 1845
Nottingham, Erewash Valley, Amber Gate, and Manchester Railway, 1845 - became part of Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway
Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway, 1845
Nottingham, Vale of Belvoir and Grantham Railway, 1845 became part of Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway
Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Extension Railway, 1845
Rugby, Warwick and Worcester Railway, 1845
Sheffield, Wortley, Silkstone and Wakefield Railway, 1845
Southern Counties Union and Bristol, Bath and Dover Direct Railway. 1845
Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire Junction Railway, 1846

Steam Engines

Locomotives
- Catch-me-who-can (Richard Trevithick)
- Agenoria, 1829
- Stourbridge Lion
- Delaware
- Hudson
Stationary Steam Engines
- Peru (with Trevithick)
- West Indies (eg for grinding lime)

Tunnels

Thames Driftway - Vazie and Trevithick (not completed), 1808

Reports etc.

The Comparative Merits of Loco-motive and Fixed Engines as a moving power for Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1829. Rastrick was one of the judges at the Rainhill trials in 1829.
Parliamentary Select Committees
- witness for Select Committee to inquire into the state of communication by railways, Jun 28, 1839.
- witness for Parliamentary Commission to inquire into gauge of railways, Aug 12, 1845
Patent, No 3799, for a steam engine, Apr 1, 1814

Membership of Professional Societies

Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1827
Member of the Society of Arts 1833
Fellow of the Royal Society, Jan 19, 1837

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