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Thanks. And yes, it seems like Derbyshire genius Benjamin Outram invented them for his aqueducts.Good to know it goes back that far.

Thanks so much, so cast panels definitely have a long history before railways.

Thanks so much for your thoughts, very interesting.

Hi, I hope I may be in the right place to ask a historical question. Sorry if not. At the beginning of the railway age, there was an increasing need to store water for steam locomotives, in large rectangular tanks. The earliest survivor is an 1839 tank at York, which is about to be refurbished...