The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson: Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway LocomotiveHarper, 1868 - 501 páginas |
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... laid down at Bushey , near London ; at Castlethorpe , near Wolverton ; and at Parkside , near Liverpool . At these four troughs about 130,000 gallons of water are scooped up daily . Wherever railways have been made , new towns have ...
... laid down at Bushey , near London ; at Castlethorpe , near Wolverton ; and at Parkside , near Liverpool . At these four troughs about 130,000 gallons of water are scooped up daily . Wherever railways have been made , new towns have ...
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... laid side by side , over which more than twenty millions of passengers are carried yearly , or an average of about 60,000 a day all the year round . Since the partial opening of the Greenwich Railway in 1836 , a large extent of railways ...
... laid side by side , over which more than twenty millions of passengers are carried yearly , or an average of about 60,000 a day all the year round . Since the partial opening of the Greenwich Railway in 1836 , a large extent of railways ...
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... laid down , along which they were easily hauled . The carts were then converted into wagons , and mounted on four wheels instead of two . Still farther to facilitate the haulage of the wagons , pieces of planking were laid parallel upon ...
... laid down , along which they were easily hauled . The carts were then converted into wagons , and mounted on four wheels instead of two . Still farther to facilitate the haulage of the wagons , pieces of planking were laid parallel upon ...
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... laid down between most of the collieries on the Tyne and the places at which the coal was shipped . Roger North , in ... lay down a tram - way for the pur- pose of connecting the one with the other . A century later , Arthur Young ...
... laid down between most of the collieries on the Tyne and the places at which the coal was shipped . Roger North , in ... lay down a tram - way for the pur- pose of connecting the one with the other . A century later , Arthur Young ...
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... laid down in the coal districts of Wales , Cumberland , and Scotland . At the time of the Scotch rebellion in 1745 , a tram - road existed between the Tranent coal- pits and the small harbor of Cockenzie , in East Lothian ; and a ...
... laid down in the coal districts of Wales , Cumberland , and Scotland . At the time of the Scotch rebellion in 1745 , a tram - road existed between the Tranent coal- pits and the small harbor of Cockenzie , in East Lothian ; and a ...
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