Wollaton Wagonway
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wollaton-wagonway-271-12116800
title:
Wollaton Wagonway
text:
The Wollaton Wagonway, built between October 1603 and 1604 in the East Midlands of England by Huntingdon Beaumont in partnership with Sir Percival Willoughby, has sometimes been credited as the world's first overground wagonway and therefore regarded as a significant step in the development of railways. Its primacy has been recently questioned because of a wagonway built at Prescot, near Liverpool, sometime around 1600 and possibly as early as 1594. Owned by Philip Layton, this line carried coal
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encyclopedia
description:
Railway using horses to pull coal wagons
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaton_Wagonway
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-25T09:55:37Z
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13
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