Kitty's Drift
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Kitty's Drift
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Kitty's Drift is an early 3-mile (4.8 km) railway tunnel in the west of the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was built around 1770 to transport coal underground from the East Kenton Colliery, at Kenton, to staithes on the Tyne at Scotswood. As built it was a single track waggonway with wooden rails and passing places for horsedrawn waggons. The wagonway through the tunnel was abandoned in the first decade of the 19th century, with the colliery's output being transferred to the Kenton and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty%27s_Drift
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2024-09-07T18:11:49Z
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2024-09-08T14:40:01Z
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