Carrying Coal to Dunston - Coal and the Railway, by Ernest Manns
Book published by The Oakwood Press in 2000, 112 pages. Paperback (N6184)
Brand New Book
From the introduction: 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. The village of 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 over three and a half centuries. The history of the railways of Dunston and the Whickham/ Pontop/Tanfield region of North-West County Durham illustrates the way in which the railway fostered and maintained the growth of industry and trade throughout Victorian times and until the mid-20th century when coal and steam were the primary source of energy. 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. Contents in the book include:
Coal and the Railway
Early Coal Mining in the North East
Early Mining Methods and Transport of Coal
The Early Wooden Waggonways
The War of the Waggonways
Waggonway Construction and Operation
The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
The Brandling Junction Railway
The North Eastern Railway
Coal and Industry
The Dunston Extension and the Derwenthaugh Branch
The Waggonways in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Goods and Mineral traffic in the 20th Century
Industry at Dunston
Passenger Traffic
The LNER and Nationalisation
The End of the Coal Trade and the End of the Railway
Preservatio
Weights and Measures in the North-Eastern Coal Trade
Tonnage of Coal and Coke Shipped at at Dunston Staiths 1893 to 1926
Please note that although the book is brand new, their is very light spine roll along the left hand edge, from where the book has been stored flat.
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