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Parker Waggonway |
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Parker Pit |
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Woodagreen Pit |
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Monkwray Pit |
| civil parish:- |
Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland) |
| county:- |
Cumbria |
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tramroad |
| 1Km square:- |
NX9717 (guess) |
| 10Km square:- |
NX91 |
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hearsay:-
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John Gale, agent to Sir John Lowther, proposed using carts instead of packhorses,
to carry coal from Woodagreen Pit to Whitehaven Harbour. He built a 'coalway', a causeway
laid with wooden baulks on which the cart wheels ran. The wheels were not guided by
the baulks; this was not a tramroad in the railway sense.
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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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hearsay:-
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A ¾mile waggonway from Parker Pit to Whitehaven Harbour was opened 4 August 1738.
The Cumberland Pacquet reported it:-
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"... was considered as only something less than magic, was hailed by the acclamations
not only of all the inhabitants which the town then contained, but by people from
every part of the adjoining county ..."
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Joy, David: 1983 & 1990: Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain &Lake Counties,
The: David and Charles (Newton Abbot, Devon)
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hearsay:-
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Ran from South Harbour, Whitehaven south to Woodagreen Pit and Monkwray Pit; opened
1738. No traces remain. The tramroad was owned by Sir James Lowther; the engineer
was Spedding.
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Baxter, Bertram: 1966: Stone Blocks and Iron Rails: David and Charles (Newton Abbot,
Devon)
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Finlay, Michael: 2006: Mining and Related Tokens of West Cumberland and their Issuers:
Plains Books
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