 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
 | Metallurgy - 1862 - 456 pages
...introduced in the north of England between 1632 and 1049. In 1676 they are described as being made by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel. Within the last twenty years, railways, formed with hard-wood timber alone, or of timber covered with... | |
 | William Galt - Railroad law - 1865 - 462 pages
...annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying lines of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four romlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Industries - 1872 - 1318 pages
...land damages for railroads. Roger North, writing in the year 1676, describes these tramways thus : " 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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Industries - 1872 - 1318 pages
...for land damages for railroads. Roger North, writing in the year 1676, describes these tramways thus: "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 rowlcts fitting... | |
 | Richard Fynes - Coal miners - 1873 - 340 pages
...Guildford. " The manner of the carriage of coals is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rowlers fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | Archaeology - 1873 - 670 pages
...first used? Roger North gives the following description of one railway at Newcastle, in 1680 : — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these... | |
 | Society of Engineers (London, England) - Engineering - 1874 - 266 pages
...Speaking of the conveyance of coals, he thus describes the " wagons and wagon ways," as he calls them : " 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, or wheels fitting... | |
 | 1874 - 270 pages
...Speaking of the conveyance of coals, he thus describes the "Wagons and wagon ways," as he calls them : "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, or wheels fitting... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - Transportation - 1877 - 652 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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 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... | |
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