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Original Text (Annotation: EPW006531 / 2092237)
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Coal hoist for loading export coal into the holds of ships. Each hoist had two railway lines, one at ground level, the other some feet in the air at the end of an embankment. Wagons were delivered to the bottom of the hoists by gravity, lifted to the necessary height by the hoist, tipped to discharge the coal into the ship's hold then passed to the hoist's higher level line, where they rolled away to the marshalling area, also by gravity. '