The Denninston mine lies high in the hills behind Westport on the Denniston Plateau. The town of Denniston 1,500 inhabitants at one time soon grew up near this mine.
During its operation from October 1879 to August 1967, as many as 12 million tons of high-quality coal were mined from this mine, making it one of the most productive Zealand mines of its time. In addition to quality coal, this mine was also famous for one legendary work of mechanical engineering - Denniston Incline incline = slope, locally referred to as the eighth wonder of the world so here they indicate more places, as we found J. Every hour, 14 wagons loaded with 12 tons of coal passed along this railway. Which would not be such a stone in itself, it is only the slope of this track, which for its length of 1.7 km had to overcome an elevation of 510 meters, so it was really a lot downhill. And so these loaded coal trains picked up speeds of up to 80 km per hour. Thanks to the perfectly connected rope system, this speed and the weight of the loaded trucks simultaneously pulled the empty trucks from the bottom of the hill back up, and so on.
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