Victoria Tunnel (Newcastle)
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The Victoria Tunnel is a subterranean wagonway that runs under Newcastle upon Tyne, England, from the Town Moor down to the River Tyne. It was built between 1839 and 1842 to transport coal from Leazes
A lit section of the Victoria Tunnel near the Ouse Street entrance
Entrance, Claremont Road.
Collier (ship)
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A collier is a bulk cargo ship designed or used to carry coal. Early evidence of coal being transported by sea includes use of coal in London in 1306. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, coal w
Victoria Tunnel (Newcastle)
…built until 1873). Building a staithe here would require paying the keelmen to take the coal downstream of the bridge before it could be loaded into the colliers, thereby significantly reducing the profit margin on each load of coal shipped. Permission to build the tunnel was granted in 1838 and work started the…
The royal yacht Royal Escape, formerly a collier called Surprise, built before 1651
Victoria, a steam powered collier built in 1924
A collier has been deliberately beached so that the cargo of coal can be unloaded into carts and taken for sale.
Coal whippers unloading a collier. Four men climb up a step set on the collier's deck, holding ropes that go to a pulley fastened above and then down to a basket in the hold. They jump off the step, holding the rope, and their weight lifts the basket out of the hold. It is then tipped into a chute that leads into the barge alongside.