caption: During the final decades of steam working, tall concrete coaling towers were built in many places. These discharged coal straight downwards rather than allowing it to be tipped in from the side and were filled by hoists. Loaded wagons would be lifted up and physically rotated at the top of the tower, as this model on <PERSON>'s Brockley Acres layout demonstrates. Sadly all these concrete coaling towers have been demolished apart from the one at Carnforth ( formerly part of the <PERSON>... Towers, Acre, Trains, Concrete, Layout, Animation, Building, Places, Top
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