 It has been estimated  that he walked or rode nearly during his career on the tramroad, and needed his clogs resoling once per week.In 1813, estimates were prepared to replace the tramroad by a canal but the cost of £160,000 was too much for the company at the time.In 1831 the coming of the Preston and Wigan Railway sounded the death knell for the tramroad and proposals were made to convert it into a railway or amalgamate with the new railway company.