| 词条 | Paddy mail |
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Originally they were operated by railway contractors, on temporary tracks laid to remove spoil from their workings, to transport workers from their "shanty villages" to the work site.[2] Many of these navvies as they were known were of Irish origin, hence the name given to the trains (see: Paddy).[3] Once the main line was built the name passed to the workmen's specials, which in many cases, were operated along the main line railways and sometimes operated by the main line companies to an exchange point where the trains were taken over by the industrial company.[3] In a time before the provision of pit-head baths it was illegal to travel in a normal service train in working clothes, so special trains were provided, usually of the railway company's most ancient coaches. There is a preserved example of such a vehicle from 1869 at the Midland Railway Centre at Butterley.[4] Most of the services were terminated due to competition from motor buses in the 1930s. One much loved line was the Southwell Paddy.[5] Since their main line demise the name has continued in use being applied to the underground man-riding trains which operate between the pit bottom and the working coal face.[6] See alsoBirley Collieries, Nunnery Colliery, Orgreave Colliery, Silverwood Colliery, Treeton Colliery. References1. ^{{cite web|title=Home time! The Paddy Mail transporting workers off the railway site.|url=http://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/Lpages/html/L3488.html|website=www.railwayarchive.org.uk|accessdate=11 January 2017|date=1 January 2000}} 2. ^{{cite magazine|last1=Fitzgerald|first1=R|editor1-last=Cooke|editor1-first=B.W.C.|title=Tempest's Blakedean Railway|magazine=The Railway Magazine|date=January 1967|volume=113|issue=789|page=43|publisher=Tothill Press|issn=0033-8923}} 3. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Piggott|first1=Nick|title=The rise and fall of king coal|date=2016|publisher=Mortons Media|location=Horncastle|isbn=978-1-911276-01-2|page=110|edition=1|chapter=Railways underground}} 4. ^Huson, S., (2009) Derbyshire in the age of steam, Newbury: Countryside Books 5. ^{{cite news|title=Looking back on final rail journey {{!}} Newark Advertiser|url=http://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/articles/news/Looking-back-on-final-rail-journey|accessdate=11 January 2017|work=Newark Advertiser|date=3 July 2009}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Elliott|first1=Brian|title=Images of the past: coalminers|date=2015|publisher=Pen & Sword|location=Barnsley|isbn=9781845631475|page=91|edition=1|chapter=4: Underground}} External links
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