 The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly streight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down...  The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer - Стр. 59авторы: Samuel Smiles - 1858 - Страниц: 486Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Henry Frith - 1895 - Страниц: 406
...of ground between the colliery and the river. They sell leave to lead coals over the ground. . . . The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...down to the river, exactly straight and parallel, . . . whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coal." i This... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1895 - Страниц: 204
...middle of the seventeenth century. In the Life of Lord-Keeper North they were thus described in 1676: "The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those... | |
 | 1895 - Страниц: 980
..." British Encyclopedia," the following extract, which belongs to a work dated 1676, is quoted : — "The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1895 - Страниц: 208
...middle of the seventeenth century. In the Life of Lord-Keeper North they were thus described in 1676: "The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those... | |
 | William Jasper Nicolls - 1896 - Страниц: 418
...Colebrookdale, in Shropshire, England. A writer in 1676 describes the old wooden railways as follows : " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlets, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | Victoria and Albert Museum - 1907 - Страниц: 468
...colliery district, and in this connection it is recorded in the life of Lord Keeper North that in 1676 " the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlcts fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | George Packer Raidabaugh - 1915 - Страниц: 64
...England, as follows : "The manner of the carriage is by laying down rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlets fitting these rails whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw 4 or 5 chaldrons... | |
 | International Railway Congress Association - 1926 - Страниц: 1366
...of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over the ground, and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect...the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky «arts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse... | |
 | Science Museum (Great Britain) - 1919 - Страниц: 518
...use by the end of the 16th century. In the Life of Lord Keeper North it is recorded that in 1676 " the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails." They were generally laid on special tracks or wayleaves leading from the collieries to the riverside... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1921 - Страниц: 988
...railway (see fig. 44) which he had seen at Newcastle during the reign of Charles II, as follows: " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five... | |
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