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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).
Mine railway; B. Barnsley Coal Railway; Burma Mines Railway; C. Chemin de fer de la Rivière Romaine; Coatbridge Branch (NBR) Cumberland Railway and Coal Company; D.
39°47'45.6"N 80°09'24.6"W 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 Great Laxey Mine Railway was originally constructed to serve the Isle of Man's Great Laxey Mine, a lead mine located in Laxey.The 19 in (483 mm) gauge railway runs from the old mine entrance to the washing floors along a right of way that passes through the Isle of Man's only remaining railway tunnel (another at Dhoon West Quarry is disused) under the 3 ft (914 mm) gauge Victorian Manx ...
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.
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 Navajo Mine is a surface coal mine owned and operated by Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) in New Mexico, United States, within the Navajo Nation. The mine is about 20.5 miles (33 km) southwest of Farmington, New Mexico. The Navajo Mine Railroad has 13.8 miles (22.2 km) of track between the Four Corners Generating Station and Navajo ...
The Deseret Power Railway (/ ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ⓘ) [1] (reporting mark DPRW), formerly known as the Deseret-Western Railway, [2] is an electrified private Class III railroad [3] operating in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. It does not connect to the national rail network and has no signaling system. [3]