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1831 – First railway in Australia, for the Australian Agricultural Company, a cast iron fish belly gravitational railway servicing the A Pit coal mine. 1831 – First passenger season tickets issued on the Canterbury & Whitstable Railway. 1832 – The Leicester and Swannington Railway opened in Leicestershire. It was the first steam railway ...
A mine railway (or mine railroad, U.S.), sometimes pit railway, is a railway constructed to carry materials and workers in and out of a mine. [1] Materials transported typically include ore , coal and overburden (also called variously spoils, waste, slack, culm, [ 2 ] and tilings; all meaning waste rock).
Mining railways — industrial railways at/in mines, and from them to ore processing operations. Trains portal; Subcategories. ... Mine railway; B. Barnsley Coal Railway;
Many of the cement works and their associated chalk pits had narrow gauge railways, particularly those in the South East of England. The Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. (APCM, later Blue Circle Industries, and Lafarge) was the major producer of cement in the United Kingdom in the second half of the twentieth century and many of their plants used railways.
The Cumberland Mine Railroad is a private carrier mine railroad serving the Cumberland Coal Resources mine near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Operations on the mine and associated railroad began in November 1976. The line was originally developed by United States Steel as a source of steam coal for export to Canada. Subsequently, the mine and ...
Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania A dumper minecart used in the Basque Country, currently at the Minery Museum.. A minecart, mine cart, or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining.
Several mine railways. Origine: from 1 ft 8 in preußische Zoll = 523,2 mm. [22] 533 mm: 21 in: England: Pleasure Beach Express: 550 mm 21 + 21 ⁄ 32 in: Denmark Mønsted Kalkgruber, in a former limestone quarry, railway is preserved. Narrow-gauge railways in Europe Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark. Germany: Mine railways in Mayen: 557 mm: 21 ...
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