Quarry tub

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Quarry tub" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

A tub or quarry tub is a type of railway or tramway wagon used in quarries and other industrial locations for the transport of minerals (such as coal, sand, ore, clay and stone) from a quarry or mine face to processing plants or between various parts of an industrial site.^[1] This type of wagon may be small enough for one person to push, or designed for haulage by a horse, or for connection in a train hauled by a locomotive. The tubs are designed for ease of emptying, usually by a side-tipping action. This type of rail vehicle is now mainly obsolete, its function having been mostly replaced by conveyor belts.

This article about mining is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This rail-transport related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e