Coaling tower
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coaling-tower-271-9684339
title:
Coaling tower
text:
A coaling tower, coal stage, coaling plant or coaling station is a facility used to load coal as fuel into railway steam locomotives. Coaling towers were often sited at motive power depots or locomotive maintenance shops. In the early years of railways, coal was shovelled by hand into locomotive tenders, the first attempt in Britain to replace manual labour by gravity in the refuelling process being found at Shildon, County Durham, where coal drops were built by the Stockton and Darlington Railw
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description:
Facility used to load coal into steam locomotives
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaling_tower
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date modified:
2023-11-01T17:46:39Z
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