 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...  Dictionary of dates, and universal reference - Page 435by Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1845 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | W. H. Williams - Railroads - 1923 - 40 pages
...as we find Master Beaumont had at that time expended his £30,000. In 1676 they are thus described : The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...and bulky carts are made, with four rollers fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldrons of... | |
 | 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 timber from the colliery down to the river exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlets fitting these... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 910 pages
...underneath at fairly regular intervals. As an old English writer puts it, planks of timber were laid "from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts were made RAILWAYS, ELEVATED with four rollers fitting the rails, whereby the carriage was so easy... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1844 - 572 pages
...ground, and so dear, that the owner of a rood of ground will expect 20/. per annum for this leave. 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Railway & Locomotive Historical Society - Locomotives - 1921 - 616 pages
...from the pits to the place of shipping. They are thus mentioned in 1676: "The manner of Hiecarriage is, by laying rails of timber from the colliery to...and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is >o easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of... | |
 | 260 pages
...send their coal down to the river by the help of this device. A letter written at that time says : " 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... | |
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