Not quite what you asked, but:
I know of two locations in Wales where a canal running along a hillside was
related via the necessary stone revetment to an ironworks immediately below,
with various installations incorporated into the wall. I live near one, in
Ystalyfera, where the wall has been conserved resecntly as part of a new
ASDA development, and I belive one of the Merthyr works had something very
similar.
The Ystalyfera site would date from 1838 on. The Merthyr example probably
significantly earlier.
Ian G.
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Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 1:20 PM
Subject: FW: Early C19 ore chute design
> Dear List,
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>
> Does anyone know of any published sources for the design and construction
> of
> orechutes, where they open either directly beside or under a railway?
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> I'm in the process of producing an isometric reconstruction of the 1806
> double orechutes at Morwellham Quay for my Tavistock Canal book. These
> had
> a pair of stone-constructed vertical chutes which opened directly under
> each
> of a pair of parallel lines.
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> I just wondered how unusual they were and whether parallels existed
> elsewhere?
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>
> Robert Waterhouse
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