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[Note 153.8] "The coals are shipping every day":- Pigot's 1834 Directory of County Durham says "The coals are got at a depth of from 150 to 350 yards, and are let down a railway seven miles in length, and shipped on the banks of the River Wear near Sunderland, where the company have extensive wharfs for the shipping and landing goods, and where vessels of large burden can ride in safety". [ref: http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/h027.htm] Below is part of a 1904 map of Lambton railways showing the course of Hetton Railway [ref: ttp://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland009.html]

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[Note 196.1] The song gives voice to the widespread fear that the British economy was being swamped by goods imported from countries outside the British Empire.

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[Note 196.3] "The Driver wears an orchid" :- Joseph chamberlain was a leading figure in the Tariff Reform faction. He habitually wore an orchid in his button hole and sported a monocle.

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[Note 196.2] "Another train has just come in, it makes the Powers stare" : The Tariff Reform League (see note 3 below) was formed in 1903, the year the song was published and presumably written. "The Powers" were Britain's imperialist rivals, notably Germany.

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[Note 196.5] Sandy and Pat are Stokers: Sandy; the archetypal Scot and Pat; the archetypal Irishman are cast in menial roles. By implication the English, represented by John Bull, are in charge.

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