...river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky caris are made with four rollers, fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an int. menre benefit to the coal merchant." Iron tracks along the surface under a moderate...

...river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rollers, fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchant." Iron tracks' have sincebeen substituted and...

...river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rollers, fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchant." Iron tracks have since been substituted and...

...draw greater loads. A description is given of a railway in 1766, then in use near Newcastle-on-Tyne, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals. For more than a century these railways were made of the most simple construction. A flat rail...

...river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is of immense benefit to the coal merchants."* The advantage here resulted from the hard,...

...the river, exactly strait and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlcts, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coal, and it is of immense benefit to the coal merchants." These wooden roads became very common in coal...

...the rirer, exactly strait and parallel, and bulky cart« are made with rowlets, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or live chaldrons of coal, and it is of immense benefit to the coal merchants." These wooden roads became...

...river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchant." * The population of Cumberland...

...river exactly, straight and parallel : and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw four or five chaldrou of coals — and is an immense benefit to the coalmerchants." Cast-iron rails date a century...

...river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carte are made with four rowlets fitting these rails; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldron of coals." this led to a reduction of forty per cent, in the price. Charles II. in his anxiety...