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ANIMAL & MECHANICAL HORSEPOWER

Post-WW2 Quayside Freight Management

Richard Beckett

It is believed that this photo shows the first import of timber into Newhaven port after the end of WW2. Note the use of horses to haul the wagons, a great saving on the cost of using shunting locomotives.

Horse & Crane Power on the railway

Newhaven Maritime Museum

This page was added by Richard Beckett on 06/11/2008.

Comments about this page

What a picture. It hadn't moved on much when I was collecting timber from the Baltic saw mills yard in the early sixties. I wonder how a London Midland and Scottish wagon ended up at Newhaven docks, and pulled by a horse as well.

By Terry Howard
On 19/02/2011