The Shildon "coal drops" opened in 1847 and included three wooden hoppers which used gravity ... The engines hauled coal trains from Shildon known as the "cradle of the railway" to docks on ...
Shildon was a transport hub for coal mined from the Durham collieries. The S&DR built the drops to speed up the re-fuelling times of their steam locomotives that hauled coal trains from Shildon to ...