Mine railway
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A mine railway, sometimes pit railway, is a railway constructed to carry materials and workers in and out of a mine. Materials transported typically include ore, coal, and overburden. It is little rem
Preserved typical mine train at the Museu de Les Mines d' Eschucha, Eschucha, Spain
Minecart shown in De Re Metallica (1556). The guide pin fits in a groove between two wooden planks.
Mine wagon on wooden rails from Transylvania, end of the 16th century
A preserved Dandy wagon of the Ffestiniog Railway. Before locomotives, slate trains would travel down to Porthmadog under gravity, and be pulled back up by horses
Wagonway
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A wagonway was a method of railway transportation that preceded the steam locomotive and used horses to haul wagons. The terms plateway and tramway were also used. The advantage of wagonways was that
Mine railway
…Wagonway, completed in 1604, hitherto regarded as the earliest British installation. This ran from Strelley to Wollaton near Nottingham. Another early wagonway is noted onwards. Huntingdon Beaumont, who was concerned with mining at Strelley, also laid down broad wooden rails near Newcastle upon Tyne, on which…
Benjamin Outram's Little Eaton Gangway in July 1908 with the last train of loaded coal wagons arriving.
Minecart from 16th century, found in Transylvania
A replica of a "Little Eaton Tramway" wagon; the tracks are plateways