Cumberland Railway and Coal Company information

Cumberland Railway and Coal Company is a defunct Canadian industrial company with interests in coal mines in Springhill, Nova Scotia, and a railway that...

Cumberland Railway may refer to: Cumberland Railway and Coal Company and associated Cumberland Railway (Nova Scotia) Cumberland Railway (1882), predecessor...

primarily a coal hauling and freight railroad, with a small passenger train operation. The WM became a property of the Chessie System holding company in 1973...

which also counted mainland Nova Scotia's Cumberland Railway and Coal Company as a subsidiary. DISCO Presidents and General Managers, 1899–1919 Presidents...

subsidiary companies, the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway and the Coal and Iron Railway. West Virginia businessman Henry G. Davis founded the Potomac and Piedmont...

Eckhart Branch Railroad. The Cumberland Coal & Iron Company, chartered in 1850, purchased the Maryland Mining Company's mines and railroad in April 1852, including...

coal that was being shipped from the Cumberland, Maryland, area. The existence of high quality semi-bituminous coal in the Broad Top Mountain region was...

The Cumberland Gap is a pass in the eastern United States through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains and near...

by the Consolidation Coal Company, and was purchased by the Western Maryland Railway (WM) in 1944. The line ran from Cumberland, Maryland to Piedmont...

Carlisle and Barrow in Furness. Coal had been mined in West Cumberland since the seventeenth century. Most of the coalfield was south of Maryport, and enjoyed...

1880s were being worked by the Cumberland Coal & Railway Company Ltd. and the Springhill & Parrsboro Coal & Railway Company Ltd. These entities merged in...

foundation, and the Cumberland Coal Company was formed, re-opening the pits in 1937. In 1947 the pits came under the nationalised body, the National Coal Board...

(supported by Lord Lonsdale and both MPs for West Cumberland) got its authorising act of Parliament, the Whitehaven Junction Railway Act 1844. The first Earl...

including "King Coal" and "British Railway of America". In 1986, N&W merged with Southern Railway to form today's Norfolk Southern Railway. The N&W was famous...

"Local and District News". Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser. 6 June 1854. p. 4. "Furness Railway Company". Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's...

Workington Railway was an English railway company (established by Act of Parliament in 1845) which built and operated a railway between the Cumberland towns...

existing railroad companies. They also wanted to ship coal and iron ore to the Northeastern US over the Cincinnati Southern Railway, which was leased...

Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The world's first public railway to use...

manufacturing and shipbuilding: Halifax Shipyards Cumberland Railway and Coal Company Sydney & Louisburg Railway, an historic railway in Cape Breton...

Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company in Western Maryland. The railroad operated from 1853 to 1863, when it was acquired by the Cumberland and Pennsylvania...

Conshohocken Railway Consolidated Traction Company Continental Passenger Railway Corry and Columbus Street Railway Cumberland Railway Danville and Bloomsburg...

There were two interlinked railways on the south shore of the Solway Firth. The Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Company was opened in 1854, following the...

customers included the Intercolonial Railway Wooden coal hopper cars; one large customer was Cumberland Railway and Coal Company in Springhill, Nova Scotia Other...

operations in Anderson County—the Knoxville Iron Company mine at Coal Creek and the Cumberland Coal Company's "Big Mountain" mine at Oliver Springs—primarily...

Massachusetts (1883), Cumberland, Maryland (1884)[citation needed], Tamaqua, Pennsylvania (1885), and Boston (1886). The Edison Illuminating Company was purchased...