Thursday, August 05, 2004

Irony is lost as taking coal to Newcastle becomes reality

Newcastle's Tyne Dock has received its first cargo of Russian coal, and it expects to import up to 70,000 tonnes by December...
Yahoo! News - "coals to Newcastle" becomes reality

...in its heyday, the river Tyne river -- which runs through Newcastle into the North Sea -- was the largest exporter of coal in the world. Ho hum...

1 comment:

mmChronic said...

I believe quite a lot of it went through something called the Victoria Tunnel before it reached the Tyne. I wish we had some info on that. ho hum. ;)