A cobbled rail for ponies to trace waggons along the railway rail was constitute this year
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An extensive archaeological earthworks of Scotland's showtime railway rail is planned for side past times side year.
Wooden rails from the 297-year-old Tranent-Cockenzie Waggonway were uncovered inward a dig inward June this year.
Part of a cobbled Equus caballus rail for the ponies which pulled the wagons upward to coal pits at Tranent inward East Lothian was too discovered.
A community projection hopes side past times side twelvemonth earthworks powerfulness unearth approximately of the timbers used to put the railway.
The finds made this twelvemonth past times the 1722 Waggonway Heritage Group accept been listed amid Scotland's exceed 5 archaeological discoveries of 2019.
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