Tyne Bridge, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A Pickfords low loader transporting a W90 walking dragline excavator across the Tyne Bridge on its journey to Whitley Bay opencast coal site. This photograph is part of a batch showing a Ransome Rapier W90 walking dragline excavator being transported through the streets of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It was on a 280 mile journey from one Laing contract at Carrington Coppice opencast coal mine in Derbyshire to another at Whitley Bay opencast coal mine
Picture No
13460440
Media ID
45378852
Size
5333px x 5580px
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Credit
© Historic England Archive / John Laing Photographic Collection / Mary Evans
Source
John Laing plc - Historic England Archive
Date
1949
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Batch Carrington Contract Coppice Derbyshire Dragline Excavator Laing Loader Newcastle-upon-tyne Opencast Pickfords Ransome Rapier Transported Transporting Tyne Whitley
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