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| locality:- |
St Helen's Pit |
| civil parish:- |
Workington (formerly Cumberland) |
| county:- |
Cumbria |
| locality type:- |
tramroad |
| 1Km square:- |
NY0030 (guess) |
| 10Km square:- |
NY03 |
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hearsay:-
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Built as a wooden waggonway in the 1730s for Lowther. It closed before 1777.
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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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Ran from Workington Harbour north and east to coal pit at St Helens , Moorhouse Guards,
and High Seaton; opened 1740. No traces remain.
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Baxter, Bertram: 1966: Stone Blocks and Iron Rails: David and Charles (Newton Abbot,
Devon)
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