Considerations on the Proposed Communication by a Navigable Canal Between the Town of Sheffield and the Peak Forest Canal: With Remarks and ... for Passing Over a Mountainous District - Softcover

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Excerpt from Considerations on the Proposed Communication by a Navigable Canal Between the Town of Sheffield and the Peak Forest Canal: With Remarks and Calculations Tending to Prove the Superiority of an Edge-Railway for Passing Over a Mountainous District

At the Killingworth colliery there is an edge-railway four miles in length upon which the coals are conveyed to the river; and these experiments were made with the carriages and engines in common use upon that rail Wa they cannot, therefore, involve any suc errors as frequently arise from the use of models upon a small scale.

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