Carrying Coals to Dunston: Coal and the Railway: No. 216 (Locomotion Papers) - Softcover

Manns, Ernest

9780853615606: Carrying Coals to Dunston: Coal and the Railway: No. 216 (Locomotion Papers)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853615608 ISBN 13: 9780853615606

Publisher: The Oakwood Press, 2000

Oakwood Press gloss pictorial card covered book with square bound spine. LP216 in the Oakwood Locomotion Papes Series. The detailed history of the many early waggon ways and later railways that transported vast quantities of coal to Dunston on Tyne in North East England. 2000 1st edition. 112pp of text, route maps and detail maps with numerous B&W photographs throughout. Approximately A5 size.

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Synopsis:

Carrying coals to Newcastle has long been proverbially regarded as a pointless exercise, but nevertheless virtually all the coal, which came from Newcastle and Tyneside had to be carried to the River Tyne itself before it could be exported. The waggonways and railways, which carried the coal to the shipping ports on the river were an essential link in the transport of coal from the collieries to London, the main market for Tyne coal. Dunston-on-Tyne, until recently a major port on the river, has a continuous record of railway activity, largely for the transport of coal, for more than 350 years. The coal trade, in developing the railway to overcome its local transport problems, produced a transport system which was itself to become a major industry and change the social, commercial and industrial life of the world. The story concludes with a look at preservation at the Tanfield Railway and Beamish North of England Open Air Museum. This title has an A5 format, 112 pages with more than 50 photographs, maps, etc. It has a laminated glossy cover.

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