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Whiteman Brickworks Tramways--Middle Swan, Western Australia

机译：怀特曼砖厂有轨电车-西澳大利亚州中天鹅

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For centuries, the winter floods have washed down clay from the Darling Range and deposited it on the meandering banks of the Swan and the Helena rivers around Midland. Whiteman Brick and its successors have been exploiting these deposits since 1886. The demand was buoyed by a preference by Western Australian homebuilders to have their homes built from brick, rather than timber. Perhaps this is because in the hot dry climate, brick homes were more able to retain the cool of the morning throughout the day whereas timber houses heated up quicker. That does not mean that there was a shortage of timber houses; rather those people who had experienced living in timber houses knew how they performed in hot weather, and buying brick was always seen as a way to escape the heat! From visiting numerous former brickworks sites around Midland it is obvious that many of them used skip rail and the ubiquitous clay hoppers from early on, although most of these rail operations were horse-drawn.
机译：几个世纪以来，冬季洪水冲刷了达令山脉的黏土，并将其沉积在天鹅河和米德兰周围海伦娜河蜿蜒的河岸上。自1886年以来，Whiteman Brick及其继承人一直在开采这些矿藏。西澳大利亚州房屋建筑商偏爱使用砖砌而非木材建造的房屋，这推动了需求。也许这是因为在炎热干燥的气候中，砖房更能够保持全天的早晨凉爽，而木结构房屋的升温速度更快。这并不意味着没有木屋。而是那些经历过在木结构房屋中生活的人知道他们在炎热的天气中的表现，而买砖头总是被视为逃避高温的一种方式！通过参观米德兰周围许多以前的砖厂站点，很明显，其中许多人从一开始就使用跳轨和无处不在的粘土料斗，尽管这些铁路操作大多数都是用马拉的。

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