Colliery & Opencast Branch Lines Past & Present
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UNESCO-Welterbe Zeche
Zollverein
Die Zeche Zollverein, auch „Eiffelturm des Ruhrgebietes“ genannt, war ein von 1851 bis 1986 aktives Steinkohlebergwerk in Essen. Benannt wurde sie nach dem 1834 gegründeten Deutschen Zollverein. Sie ist heute ein Architektur- und Industriedenkmal. Gemeinsam mit der unmittelbar benachbarten Kokerei Zollverein gehören die Schachtanlagen 12 und 1/2/8 der Zeche seit 2001 zum Welterbe der UNESCO. Zollverein ist Ankerpunkt der Europäischen Route der Industriekultur und Standort verschiedener Kultureinrichtungen sowie der Folkwang Universität der Künste.
The Zollverein colliery, also known as the "Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr area", was a hard coal mine in Essen that was active from 1851 to 1986. It was named after the German Customs Union founded in 1834. Today it is an architectural and industrial monument. Together with the immediately adjacent Zollverein coking plant, shafts 12 and 1/2/8 of the colliery have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage since 2001. Zollverein is the anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage and the location of various cultural institutions as well as the Folkwang University of the Arts.
Bestwood Colliery in all its dystopian glory.
Captured using: Samsung A22
Image created using: Topaz Labs, and Topaz Studio
Zeche Hannover
Innovation und Geschichte erleben in der Burg für den Bergbau
Mit ihrem wuchtigen Malakowturm erinnert die Zeche Hannover in Bochum an eine Burg aus dem Mittelalter. Erbaut wurde sie Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Innovativ war die Fördertechnik, die hier erfunden wurde. Sie ist noch heute weltweit im Einsatz. In der Maschinenhalle dreht sich bei Schauvorführungen die große Treibscheibe der Dampffördermaschine von 1893. Sie ist das älteste Exemplar, das man im Ruhrgebiet am Originalstandort sehen kann.
Hanover colliery
Experience innovation and history in the castle for mining
With its massive Malakow tower, the Hannover colliery in Bochum is reminiscent of a castle from the Middle Ages. It was built in the middle of the 19th century. The conveyor technology that was invented here was innovative. It is still in use worldwide today. In the machine hall, the large traction sheave of the steam hoist from 1893 rotates during demonstrations. It is the oldest example that can be seen in the Ruhr area at its original location.
Garrett No 414 shunts against the rickety backdrop of the Hwange Colliery infrastructure.
How long would those white overalls remain in their pristine condition? Management must have known there would be ‘visitors’ to the colliery that day.
Zimbabwe. June 2018. © David Hill.
Zeche Hannover
Innovation und Geschichte erleben in der Burg für den Bergbau.
Mit ihrem wuchtigen Malakowturm erinnert die Zeche Hannover in Bochum an eine Burg aus dem Mittelalter. Erbaut wurde sie Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Innovativ war die Fördertechnik, die hier erfunden wurde. Sie ist noch heute weltweit im Einsatz. In der Maschinenhalle dreht sich bei Schauvorführungen die große Treibscheibe der Dampffördermaschine von 1893. Sie ist das älteste Exemplar, das man im Ruhrgebiet am Originalstandort sehen kann.
Hanover colliery
Experience innovation and history in the castle for mining.
With its massive Malakow tower, the Hannover colliery in Bochum is reminiscent of a castle from the Middle Ages. It was built in the middle of the 19th century. The conveyor technology that was invented here was innovative. It is still in use worldwide today. In the machine hall, the large traction sheave of the steam hoist from 1893 rotates during demonstrations. It is the oldest example that can be seen in the Ruhr area at its original location.
The Foxfield Railway is a preserved standard gauge line located south east of Stoke-on-Trent. The line was built in 1893 to serve the colliery at Dilhorne on the Cheadle Coalfield.
The first day with sunshine in 2022 - in the late afternoon on the rubble dump in Herten. Something strange light today ;-)
PENTAX HD-FA 35 mm F2 AL
Zeche Hannover
Innovation und Geschichte erleben in der Burg für den Bergbau
Mit ihrem wuchtigen Malakowturm erinnert die Zeche Hannover in Bochum an eine Burg aus dem Mittelalter. Erbaut wurde sie Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Innovativ war die Fördertechnik, die hier erfunden wurde. Sie ist noch heute weltweit im Einsatz. In der Maschinenhalle dreht sich bei Schauvorführungen die große Treibscheibe der Dampffördermaschine von 1893. Sie ist das älteste Exemplar, das man im Ruhrgebiet am Originalstandort sehen kann.
Hanover colliery
Experience innovation and history in the castle for mining
With its massive Malakow tower, the Hannover colliery in Bochum is reminiscent of a castle from the Middle Ages. It was built in the middle of the 19th century. The conveyor technology that was invented here was innovative. It is still in use worldwide today. In the machine hall, the large traction sheave of the steam hoist from 1893 rotates during demonstrations. It is the oldest example that can be seen in the Ruhr area at its original location.
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery is on the northern outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, UK. It is the largest remaining colliery site in the UK. In its productive period, it was the largest mine in the North Staffordshire Coalfield. It was the first mine in the UK to produce one million tons of coal in a year. It is now an Ancient Scheduled Monument. Unfortunately, the guided tours which used to be available no longer take place.
Coal Mining Museum. Wakefield. Thank you for the private tour and photographs! For this shot I was my hands and knees, camera swinging around my neck, trying to crawl after this miner! Fun times x
Caphouse Colliery, originally known as Overton Colliery, was a coal mine in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It was situated on the Denby Grange estate owned by the Lister Kaye family, and was worked from the 18th century until 1985. It reopened as the Yorkshire Mining Museum in 1988, and is now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Caphouse was a fairly small pit, with an average of 177 men working underground, and 46 on the surface for most of its time under the NCB
100x outdoor adventures #19
The very short 'descent' from the top of the old (now long closed) Weetslade Colliery, an example of Newcastle's history as a major producer of coal. This is about half way through one of my new nine-mile routes offering a good view in all directions.
And no, I'm not referring to my forthcoming trip to the dentist (well hopefully not). Instead a carpet of valerian and a brightly coloured class 20 cab provide the colour.
Veteran class 20's 20118 and 20901 are seen edging out of the sidings at the former Kellingley Colliery site. The rake of wagons had been stored for some time so care was needed to ensure that nothing had seized. The 6Z20 stock move would convey the wagons from Kellingley Colliery - Chaddesden Sidings. Quite what they will be required for next I don't know.
Caphouse Colliery, originally known as Overton Colliery, was a coal mine in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It was situated on the Denby Grange estate owned by the Lister Kaye family, and was worked from the 18th century until 1985. It reopened as the Yorkshire Mining Museum in 1988, and is now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Caphouse was a fairly small pit, with an average of 177 men working underground, and 46 on the surface for most of its time under the NCB
The coal is taken down from Banburgh colliery to the washery at Manvers. Beautiful and rural, this is typical of the areas in the UK where coal seams are found. The towns are built around the coal mines, they live their lives and apart from the inherent danger of working in a volatile and dangerous environment far below ground nothing much changes. Until the mine closes.
There is no income, there are no jobs to fall back on and there is no money to spend in the towns shops pubs clubs and cafes. It is a disaster for several generations to come at least. As I climbed up a flat roofed brick hut to take this, two young lads on pushbikes asked me if I had come to take photos because the mine was closing. Of course I had, but I was too embarrassed to tel them that. I don't feel sad about the passing of old locomotives, the trains stay, they just change. A4's for Deltics for High Speed trains and on it goes. Each generation knows what they liked when they were young and look back with fondness at it. Nostalgia. For me that is just the passing of time but here there is something else, I feel very sad to look at these. So much more has been lost here, lives and communities have been taken apart and left to deal with the aftermath as best they can, and many can't.
March the 30th 1989.
the last few remains of the so called "Harald-shaft", closed since 1931 - colliery Kalkgrub, former anthracite mine
Walton Colliery was operated between 1890 and 1979 employing over 1500 men who produced a daily output of 2200 tonnes, now turned into a peaceful nature reserve with few signs of its industrial past.
The Zollverein colliery was an active coal mine in Essen from 1851 to 1986. It was named after the German Zollverein, founded in 1834. Today it is an architectural and industrial monument.
The fireman of Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 saddle tank, works no.1219 built in 1910, climbs aboard after setting the points at Beamish colliery.
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Part of the nature reserve and country park surrounding one of the pit heads and chimney of Pleasley Colliery, Derbyshire
The former colliery at Pleasley, Derbyshire. Now a Local Nature Reserve and Country Park with an impressive range of wild orchids to be seen.
Whiston and Wimblebury cross the Staffs and Worcs Canal on the Littleton Colliery branch with a photo charter on 14 November 1993.
BF 5992 'Foremost' a road locomotive built by John Fowler of Leeds, as their works #12906 of 1911. Seen in the colliery yard at Beamish Steam fair, April 2022
Abandoned administration building of the former anthracite mine, where my grandfather worked in 1917.
hunslet 0-6-0st whiston brings a coal train out of the woods , climbing to dilhorne and eventually travelling near to what were once the exchange sidings with british railways near blyth bridge on the steeply graded branch from foxfield colliery situated in rural surroundings near stoke on trent
apart from the cleanliness of the locomotive this is likely to have been very close to the way it once was
As a child I can remember my parents ordering bags of "foxfield best nuts" coal from the coal merchant in the 1950's, which almost certainly would have started their journey in this way