The intention was to shorten the mileage for mineral trains .
This only lasted for nine months , until the opening of the section of the L&AR from Newton to Cathcart , when nearly all of the mineral traffic ran that way .
The intention was to shorten the mileage for mineral trains , but this only lasted for nine months , until the opening of the section of the L&AR from Newton to Cathcart , when nearly all of the mineral traffic ran that way .