Corus Group
Rustfans
: serving Modellers and Historians interested in Industrial Railways
and the Iron and Steel industry. A comprehensive collection of links are
maintained in the links folder at Rustfans.
Visit Yahoo Groups and search for Rustfans.
Visit Yahoo Groups and search for Rustfans.
More local pictures of Workington
The last deep working iron ore mine in Britain
Museum which has preserved one of Workington's Bessemer converters.
Remains of early charcoal fired blast furnace in south Cumbria
Whitehaven's Haig Colliery.
General Railway photography web site with some taken at Workington in 2002
English Welsh & Scottish Railway
Consett Works past & present.
Build your own Blast furnace and animate it.
A short history of the Replogle Steel Company.
A collaboration between Phil Baggley and Bill Trengove.
Derwent
Railway Society (based in Cockermouth, Cumbria)
Image gallery
of internal user wagons
In 1886,
Peter Kirk ventured to America to seek out a new and better location.
He heard about the coal mines, iron deposits, and the new communities
on the shores of Lake Washington. Train lines were being built in the
Pacific Northwest, and he thought this new area would be perfect for a
steel mill..........
Iron Ore
and Limestone mining in Cumberland.
The activities of The Beckermet Mining Co. Ltd. and of the Limestone Quarries of the Workington Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Also a 1924 description of the Allerdale Coal Company's aerial ropeway linking Buckhill Colliery with Clifton Pit
The activities of The Beckermet Mining Co. Ltd. and of the Limestone Quarries of the Workington Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Also a 1924 description of the Allerdale Coal Company's aerial ropeway linking Buckhill Colliery with Clifton Pit
150 Years
of the Shelton works
Photo gallery
of iron ore mines in the Lindal-in-Furness area of South West Cumberland
" Major
deposits occurred around Egremont, Cleator, Cleator Moor, Ennerdale, Eskdale,
Millom and Ulverston...."
Metal mining
in Cumbria
A brief
bio.
A webpage
of old rails (for railroad) in Japan (includes Moss Bay rails)
Cumbria
Amenity Trust Mining History Society
Group dedicated
to the preservation of Workington's rail and road transport heritage.
A pictorial
study of Bethlehem Steel's PBNE railroad and the Steel Plant in Bethlehem
Pennsylvania.
Peter
Robinson's Gallery pages.