 | Delaware and Hudson Company - Coal - 1925 - 932 pages
...1076, his biographer, speaking of this practice in the Newcastle district, says: 'the manner of their carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river (ic Tyne) exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails... | |
 | Delaware and Hudson Company - Coal - 1925 - 902 pages
...biographer, speaking of this practice in the Newcastle district, says: 'the manner of their cayiage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river (ie Tynel exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlots fitting these rails... | |
 | American Railway Engineering Association - Railroads - 1927 - 1494 pages
...describes a wooden railway which he had seen at Newcastle, during the reign of Charles II, as follows: "The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of...straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw 4 or 5 chaldrons... | |
 | United States National Museum - Science - 1922 - 938 pages
...railway (see fig. 44) which he had seen at Newcastle during the reign of Charles II, as follows: ¿ The ¿manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the c¿oIliery down to the river exactly straight and parallel, and bulky c!artà are made with rowleta... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1879 - 1002 pages
...description of these which we have met with is that given in the life of Lord Keeper North, published 1676. " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those... | |
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The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down... 
