coal truck cable car?

Thanks, but what was the point of dumping coal in the sea?

taffy_turner said:
Yes, but that coal mine is now long gone and that beach has been cleaned up.
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Newcastle isnt like this now. There's no kind of manufacturing industry in the UK any more, and very little coal extraction.
The cable car was used for getting rid of all the waste that was removed from the ground with the coal, stuff that won't burn easily, bits of stone, etc.
In the welsh valleys they simply dumped it on any convenient hillside.

Underwater slag heap hopefully washed down by every tide.

Enjoy it while it lasts

Yes, the environment wasn't such a concern back then. Not just in the UK but in the states too. Wasn't there a river in Ohio that was so polluted it caught fire in 1969? Also, if Califonia is so environmentally fanatical, how come the top 5 most polluted US cities are in that state?

Anyway, as mentioned, the NE coastline has really been cleaned up and has some of the cleanest beaches in the UK. There's still evidence of it's industrial past, try doing a Google image search for blast beach. Such an bizarre landscape it was actually used as a filming location in Alien 3!

Well it was hardly bikini weather though! I dont imagine even if the water was pure you'd go swimming in it.