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Meiの旅/
目の前には、Davy’s Fried Fishと書かれた看板がある店が見えます。メニューにはフライドフィッシュ、チップス、コールスローなどがあり、海辺近くにあるので、潮風を受けながら食事ができそうです。外には、1820s Pockerley Wagonwayがあり、その先にはアペスの街並みが広がっています。
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December 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Meiの旅/
あたしは今、「1820s Pockerley Wagonway」の前に立っているよ。目の前には昔ながらの蒸気機関車が線路の上にあって、煤が少しついてて最近も使われているみたい。二人の作業員が機関車の整備をしている様子も見えるわ。この場所は屋外の鉄道ヤードみたいで、小さな建物もあるの。歴史を感じる蒸気機関車が保存されていて、見ていてわくわくするね。
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December 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Meiの旅/
あたしは今、アペスの中心部に立っているよ。目の前には「ビーミッシュ、北部の生きる博物館」があって、ここでは北部の伝統的な文化や生活様式を生き生きと感じられるんだ。すぐ隣には「1820s Pockerley Wagonway」があり、19世紀初頭の鉄道の初期技術を間近に見られて、まるでタイムスリップしたみたい。さらに、「Winding Engine」という歴史的なランドマークもあって、これはかつて鉱山で使われていたエンジンで、その力強...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
drbethkitson.bsky.social
James Meek on the ghost(s) of the industrial revolution.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It wasn’t until the beginning of the 18th century, a hundred years after Beaumont’s first wagonways, that Newcomen’s steam engine solved the flooding problem and other inventor-adventurers worked out how to use coal instead of wood to smelt iron. It was another hundred years again before it was all put together – the coal, the iron, the wagonway and the engine – and the railways proper came into being. (Wrought iron rails were developed at Bedlington Ironworks, just west of Blyth.) Not till the close of the 19th century was Blyth fully at the core of the Victorian industrial meta-machine: mining coal, shipping coal for export, building ships. This span of time could be framed, from the distance of the 21st century, as a slow, almost organic process, an accidental consequence of an aristocratic scramble to maintain grandiose agriculture-based lifestyles after a series of 14th-century catastrophes. It could be framed as five hundred years of greed, selfishness, pollution and merciless exploitation of the poor by the rich. Or – these are not mutually exclusive – it could be framed, as it usually is in this country, as the triumphant progress of British ingenuity, perseverance and practicality towards general prosperity and a liberal, enlightened nation.
December 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
3788mg.bsky.social
Lovely spot though. That wagonway must be arrow straight for about 750m
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
3788mg.bsky.social
An autumnal walk via a repurposed woodland quarry wagonway 🍂🍁🧡
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
deadmanrunning1.bsky.social
Pretty special managing to find a £600k 2 bed ground floor flat in Northumberland. You can't throw a stone in the North of England without hitting an old wagonway.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
railmaps.com.au
The bay visible above the shed is the site of a coal loading staithe that was the terminus of Australia's first railway-shaped object. In 1831, the AA Co built a 500m-long gravity-powered cable wagonway laid with cast-iron fishbelly rails, to carry coal from their 'A Pit' to the river at this point.
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
stejormur.bsky.social
Went for a ride on the world's oldest carousel. Built in 1779-80, making it 245 years old. Are there any older ridable machines anywhere in the world? A primitive wagonway cart or an ancient lift or something?
A dome shaped roof supported on pillars atop a hill A carved horse and some ornate carriages inside the pillared building
October 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
stejormur.bsky.social
Went for a ride on the world's oldest carousel. Built in 1779-80, making it 245 years old. Are there any older ridable machines anywhere in the world? A primitive wagonway cart or an ancient lift or something?
A dome shaped roof supported on pillars atop a hill A carved horse and some ornate carriages inside the pillared building
October 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
richmay.co.uk
From the top I followed the wagonways back to parkhead station and then down the Stanhope and Tyne Railway line

#auden #weardale #sdr200 #wagonway
An old railway carriage, some bikes, and a sculpture of a horse pulling a wagon at Parkhead Station Crawleyside tunnel. It's a steep drop down Crawleyside bank Old Stockton and Darlington Railway marker above the tunnel A view across Weardale
October 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
deadmanrunning1.bsky.social
It's part of both Hadrian wall walk and cycleway. Relatively flat, largely old wagonway so segregated from traffic.
Occasionally a mixed bag of surroundings - plenty of urban park bits though, some light industrial around the wagonway, some good bits of history.
September 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
elwalkfest.bsky.social
The Prestonpans 'Mini' Murals walk is a short tour of some of the wonderful artworks in the 'Pans, Scotland's Mural Town. A few places left - Sept3 - book now, www.walkfest.org.uk
#catchingthepast #JohnMuir
#Wagonway #mural #heritage
#EastLothian
#Scotland
August 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
deadmanrunning1.bsky.social
I thought that looked familiar!
Had a look through my photos: from 2021
A cycle track/old wagonway near the Tyne. A paved track with hedge on one side and trees the other. Autumn leaves scatter the path and the trees are bare. A sign spray painted in purple on sleepers used as a side wall of the path days "have a nice day"
July 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
timetunnellers.bsky.social
On this day in 1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a traveling engine for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway.
Find out more about the railway pioneer in this fantastic wee video from @susanbrownrigg.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpgG...
Time Tunnellers: George Stephenson and His Homes
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July 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
fowp.bsky.social
Recreating the Wollaton Wagonway, the world’s first railway from 1604, built by Sir Percival Willoughby 🤣

#RailwayHistory #wollatonpark #motorshow
June 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
hanrahanistan.bsky.social
particularly interesting one in 1815, when 16 people were killed by a coal train near Sunderland
also from The Globe The Journal of the Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (April 2018) the Middleton Railway, in Leeds, claims to be the world’s oldest continuously operated railway. It was built to transport coal over a distance of just under a mile, and was operating a rack and pinion steam engine – possibly the world’s first commercially successful steam railway engine – which in February 1813, John Bruce, 13, was running alongside when he stumbled and fell beneath the wheels. The teenager may well be the world’s first steam railway fatality. Then there’s the world’s first railway disaster which happened on July 31, 1815, on the Newbottle Wagonway. The wagonway was a pioneering two-mile piece of track which carried coal from Newbottle colliery to the seaport at Sunderland. It used an extraordinary engine, the Steam Horse, designed in Derbyshire by William Brunton. It had two steam-powered legs which pushed the wheeled loco along at three miles an hour. Well, that was the theory. On opening day, at Philadelphia, the Steam Horse exploded. “Upwards of 50 persons, men and children, we lament to say, have been wounded or scaled by the destructive accident,” said the Durham County Advertiser. “Three persons have already died, viz Wm Sharp, the manager of the engine, who was blown to a considerable distance and most dreadfully mangled; Wm Nesbitt, one of the overmen of the colliery, and John Holmes, a pitboy.” In fact, the toll rose to about 16 dead with around 40 injured, which meant that the Newbottle Wagonway Disaster was not surpassed in its awfulness for more than 25 years, when carriages behind a derailed locomotive at Versailles, in France in 1842, caught fire and up to 200 people died.
May 31, 2025 at 12:58 AM
tallinnstreets.bsky.social
e.g. the 6th C BCE #Diolkos wagonway (#Δίολκος, from #Greek διά, ‘across’ and ὁλκός, ‘portage’), used for pushing boats across the #CorinthIsthmus in #Greece, they didn’t really come into their own until the 1800s, and in #Russia not until 1842.
4/16
May 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
soulful-journey.bsky.social
Morning walk to the local harbour. The area was first recorded as am anchorage in 1502 with an official trust opening in 1754. The harbour saw coal, panning salt, tobacco, whisky and gin leave our small town until it finally closed in 1960. #WitchyWalks
View across the River Forth A small fishing boat is anchored near the harbour. A view across the River Forth looking over to the pylons in the distance. Replica of an enclosed coal wagon on a section of rail to mark the wagonway that transported coal from the colliery to the harbour. A view into a tunnel that is part of the wagonway.Today it is a walking and cycling route from the town centre to the industrial estate near the harbour.
April 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
harry-is-human.bsky.social
Train?

Luxury.

Round my way we have to make do with a wagonway.
March 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
ehbea2026.bsky.social
🚇 Victoria Tunnel – A hidden passage beneath Newcastle, this 19th-century wagonway turned WWII air-raid shelter is a must-visit!

There are guided tours to uncover its eerie history & underground secrets. 🌒🔦 #EHBEA2025 #HiddenNewcastle [5/7]
February 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
pineconediaries.com
The Irondale, Bancroft & Ottawa Railway (IB&O) began in 1878 as the Myles Branch Tramway, a horse-drawn wagonway connecting Snowdon Iron Mine to the Victoria Railway.
9/19 🧵
February 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
whirligig-girl.bsky.social
#Slimegirl #Train #SteamTrain #SteamEngine #SteamLocomotive

Early Mellanoid Slime steam locomotive, a Garratt-like articulated locomotive. It was so successful on the steep and sharply curved wagonway-turned-railroad it was built for that it helped define the look of articulated locos on the planet
Traditional art pencil drawing of a low-tech steam locomotive of very strange shape, with the general structure of a Garratt. A vertical 'coffeepot' boiler with wood plank boiler jacketing is slung between two engine sets, each with four small wheels and small angled cylinders. On the engine set to the left of the image is two water barrels, and on the engine set to the right of the image is a large wood fuel bunker which is also made of wood. Two figures in togas operate the controls on either side.
February 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
alexhunter1984.bsky.social
The test track was built on the former trackbed of the Seghill wagonway. The southern end of the test track ended at the Coast Road, with the northern section ending in West Allotment.
January 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
jim.londoncentric.media
stop 👏 wagonway 👏 erasure 👏
January 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM