The dandy waggon is a type of railway carriage used to carry horses on gravity trains. They are particularly associated with the narrow gauge Festiniog...
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Slate waggon or slab waggon or rubbish wagon: a small four-wheeled rail car for carrying blocks of slate out of a quarry Dandy waggon or dandy cart: an...
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wagons up the hill. On the downward journey the horses travelled in a Dandy waggon at the rear of the train. Later on, steam haulage was adopted. This narrow...
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Francisco) Dandy waggon Hay Railway List of horse-drawn railways Omaha Horse Railway Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Slate waggon Trolley...
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Horses were also used on the line, and they could haul up to four waggons. The dandy waggon was introduced in mid-1828; it was a small cart at the end of...
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Porthmadog, Wales Horses hauled empty trains uphill, and rode down in Dandy waggons under gravity power. Later replaced by steam locomotives. Patent (1838–1844)...
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munitions company, Karlsruhe, Germany Deutsche Waggon und Maschinenfabrik, a German rail and bus manufacturer Dandy–Walker malformation, a congenital malformation...
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Empty wagons were hauled back up to the quarries by horses. Loaded dandy waggons used gravity to run downhill from Blaenau Ffestiniog to the port across...
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empty waggons were hauled back up by horses, which travelled down in 'dandy' waggons. This helped expansion at the Blaenau Ffestiniog quarries, which had...
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films he made with Will Hay. His first appearance with Hay was in the film Dandy Dick (1935), but he was a significant supporting performer in Hay's films...
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Parade of 1935 (1934) Those Were the Days (1934) Boys Will Be Boys (1935) Dandy Dick (1935) The Ghost Goes West (1935) No Limit (1935) Off the Dole (1935)...
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to Yesterday (1940) - Night Watchman Laugh It Off (1940) - Sergeant Band Waggon (1940) - Commissionaire Night Train to Munich (1940) - Fisherman (uncredited)...
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professional Factory Inspectorate). Stevenson cautioned that this "new waggon-load of laws" points to a future in which our grandchildren might "taste...
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Off-Off-Broadway Tommy Newman and Mark Allen Newman and Gaby Alter Alter Band Waggon 1940 Film Various artists Various artists The Band Wagon 1931 Broadway revue...
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films such as The Early Bird, The Frozen Limits, The Intelligence Men, Band Waggon and Carry On Loving feature stars like Norman Wisdom, the Crazy Gang, Morecambe...
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wagons were hauled back up by horses, which travelled down in special 'dandy' wagons. To achieve this continuous grade (about 1 in 80 for much of the...
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eroded." He loved a world that was filled with, "a line of shunted coal waggons...wreaths of steam and a smell of gas...youths playing cards at the back...
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from the book do appear in the film, such as Blixen's work running supply waggons during the war, the farm's fire and its financial troubles, and her struggles...
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Yes You Can Harley, Ian Nice, Kevin Powell, Wickens, Rick Driscoll The Waggon 1992 B-side of "Irresistible" Harley Waiting 1978 B-side of "Roll the Dice"...
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The railway along which the coals were conveyed by horses in chaldron waggons, did not take the same route exactly, nor was it so long as the existing...
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1939 – The Lambeth Walk – Continuity and additional scenes 1940 – Band Waggon – Song: "The only one who's difficult is you" 1940 – The Middle Watch –...
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return cargo: Tyne coal could be shipped via Whitehaven and the emptied waggons used to carry Cumberland iron ore back to Tyneside. In 1848-9 both the...
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Margaret Bull Miss MJ Bull & Mrs H Stokes 1:24.2 1971 Gold Braid 8.3 C Battle-Waggon (GB) Bonny Fair, by Fair's Fair (GB) Keith Opie Rory McGovern, Matamata...
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