staiths

In 1850, Mr. William Laird urged the suitability of Liverpool for the export of coal, and there cannot be a doubt that in the natural progress of our trade, coal-staiths at Liverpool or Runcorn, supplied by direct lines from the South Lancashire field, will ship great amounts of coal ballast.

The Coal Question~ Of the Export and Import of Coal William Stanley Jevons 1865

Where there are coal-staiths, however, she can be loaded and dispatched in a day or two, with a cargo that will at least pay expenses, and find a ready sale in any part of the world.

The Coal Question~ Of the Export and Import of Coal William Stanley Jevons 1865

Any one who has sailed down the Tyne from Newcastle Bridge cannot but have been struck with the appearance of the immense staiths, constructed of timber, which are erected at short distances from each other on both sides of the river.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

Nevertheless, it was daily performing its work with regularity, dragging the coal-waggons between the colliery and the staiths, and saving the labour of many men and horses.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

The coals, when raised from the pits, are emptied into the waggons placed alongside, from whence they are sent along the rails to the staiths erected by the river-side, the waggons sometimes descending by their own gravity along inclined planes, the waggoner standing behind to check the speed by means of a convoy or wooden brake bearing upon the rims of the wheels.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

Arrived at the staiths, the waggons are emptied at once into the ships waiting alongside for cargo.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

The coals, when brought above ground, had next to be laboriously dragged by horses to the shipping staiths on the Tyne, several miles distant.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

The road is nearly eight miles in length, and the level of the collieries is eight hundred and twelve feet above that of the staiths or shipping places.

The Numbers of Carlton, Addressed to the People of North Carolina, on a Central Rail-Road Through the State. The Rights of Freemen is an Open Trade 232 p. 1828

County Durham in the early 1820s, at that time the longest railway line in the world, linking a colliery to loading staiths (short piers for pouring coal from wagons on to waiting ships) on the River Wear, and then was appointed engineer to the

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Chips and Marty and I and the faithful Chucker-out were never happier than on those staiths where there is always such an ancient and fishlike smell; we never tired of watching the miraculous draughts of silver herring being disentangled from the nets and counted into baskets, which were carried on the heads of the stalwart, scaly fishwomen, and packed with salt and ice in innumerable barrels for Billingsgate and other great markets; or else the sales by auction of huge cod and dark-gray dog-fish as they lay helpless all of a row on the wet flags amid a crowd of sturdy mariners looking on, with their hands in their pockets and their pipes in their mouths.

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865