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Wednesday, 12 January 2022

Tranent - Cockenzie Waggonway

BBC iPlayer has a recent archaeology programme with a section on Scotland's first railway, a 1722 waggonway which carried coal from Tranent to salt pans at Cockenzie.    View Digging for Britain series 9 episode 3, from about 28 mins in.   (Stills below are from this episode.)
On the route of the waggonway
An artefact from a large horse
On the archaeological dig for remains of the 1722 Tranent-Cockenzie waggonway,
with which the Tanfield waggonway has several similarities

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