Railway Mania

30: Pit to Port Part 1 (with Nick Richardson)


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The birthplace of the railway is often said to the be coalfields of North-East England. We are joined by Nick Richardson in this first half of a two-part episode.
Nick sets the scene as we discuss the landscape, the technology, and the people of the coal mining communities.


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