Pictorial Parade No. 195 - After Ninety Years

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Pictorial Parade No. 195 - After Ninety Years

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This fondly-remembered Pictorial Parade plunges down the famously steep grade of the Denniston Incline. The cable railway was the key means of transporting ‘black gold’ from the isolated Denniston Plateau to Westport. The engineering marvel fell 518 metres over just 1670 metres. It brought down 13 million tonnes of coal and many hardy families, despite notorious brake failures. This film was made just before the mine and railway ceased operating, as “old king coal” was supplanted by oil. Dire...

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1967

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national film unit / nfu / mining / incline / coal / denniston incline / westport / mount rochfort plateau / west coast / coaster / granity / stockton / charleston / railways / railway / hamilton county bluegrass band

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