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| locality:- |
Aspatria Pit No.1 |
| locality:- |
Aspatria Pit No.2 |
| civil parish:- |
Aspatria (formerly Cumberland) |
| county:- |
Cumbria |
| locality type:- |
tramroad (proposed) |
| locality type:- |
railway (later) |
| coordinates:- |
NY1464122 (etc, roughly) |
| 1Km square:- |
NY1441 |
| 10Km square:- |
NY14 |
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hearsay:-
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John Smeaton wrote a report on the collieries at Aspatria, owned by Earl of Egremont,
1755. For transport to Maryport Harbour he recommended a tramroad, a wooden waggonway,
without any canal, which would involve transhipment:-
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"... though an ingenious idea of the ready shipping and unshipping of the waggons,
containing their loading, from the canal to the waggonways, and vice versa, was communicated
to me by Mr Johnson, yet it is no ways clear to me, that in so short a navigation
any thing will be saved. ..."
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Lewis, M J T: 1970: Early Wooden Railways: Routlegde and Kegan Paul (London):: ISBN
0 7100 7818 8
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