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The furnace chimney dates back to the early 19th Century. The mine closed in the 1920's. On the left is the nascent River Dane which is also the Derbyshire-Cheshire border at this point.
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.
Je vous emmènes ce soir avec moi dans une ancienne mine de charbon désaffectée, construite au début du 19ème siècle.
Nous sommes à la fin de l'automne, il fait particulièrement froid et je m'apprête à entrer dans cet endroit au lourd passé industriel. Malgré le fait que ce lieu soit abandonné, il dispose d'un dispositif de sécurité plutôt imposant (caméras, détecteurs...), et d'un gardien vivant sur place. Tout ce système sert à le conserver des dégradations de l'homme, pour ainsi faire un éventuel musée retraçant l'histoire des mineurs.
Une fois à l'intérieur du site, un véritable jeu commence. Il consiste à esquiver le dispositif sans se faire prendre. Après avoir escaladé de nombreux obstacles, je parviens à entrer dans une salle très intéressante ,la centrale électrique.
En effet, elle servait à alimenter certaines machines de la mine grâce à un système de compression.
Lorsque je suis entré dans cette pièce, j'ai tout de suite eu en tête l'image de Charly Chaplin en train de se faire engloutir par les engrenages des machines.
Sadly Snibston colliery museum is no longer open to the public. The loco shed is one of the oldest of its kind in the UK. The site is being developed for new housing, though it should be preserved as a reminder of the mining history in this part of the country.
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
The former Pleasley Colliery site is now a volunteer run mining museum and cafe. The remaining buildings are grade 2 listed.
Like a number of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Collieries, the former industrial site has been landscaped and site sits at the centre of a country park.
The mine was operational between 1873 and 1983. The winding house pictured here bears the date 1873.
Pleasley, Derbyshire, UK
Ilford Sportsman Auto RF (a rebranded Dacora Super Dignette E-B), Kodak Plus-X, developed in Kodak Microdol X 1+3, negative scanned, digital development in Lightroom.
Colliery Row is between Fence Houses and Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham. Getting on for sixty years on, there are more roads and fewer cables - for me, the very high telegraph pole helps greatly in the balance of the composition. Notice the bus stop on the right of the light part of the image - in line of sight behind it, about 200m away, is a bus going away from us. My piano teacher lived in one of the houses on the left.
18.7.2014.
Bagnall 0-4-0ST No 2842 pulls away from the Colliery site with a short rake of mineral wagons.
Foxfield Railway.
Number 8 , Bickershaw colliery from the Brian Dobbs collection. Brian is fine, I am scanning some slides for him
Whiston and Wimblebury cross the Staffs and Worcs Canal on the Littleton Colliery branch with a photo charter on 14 November 1993.
Barclay 2260 built 1949. One of the steam railway locomotives used to shunt railway wagons around Cardowan Colliery now residing at the Scottish Industrial Railway Centre, Dunaskin.
Another scanned image taken on a day of atmospheric weather around the time the colliery closed in 1993. Like most long standing industries, the closure of this colliery, which opened in 1858 left its mark on the local community. Even now, 32 years later some would say that the village hasn’t recovered.
It was 21/07/89 on the Wankie Colliery system where we had a special train. No.3 (NBL 27559 of 1955) leads and No.2 (NBL 27558 of 1955) tails the train {Thanks to Peter Robbins for info ).
Oranje-Nassau 1 (On 1), Schacht 2, Heerlen, Limburg, Niederlande 16.05.1990.
Konzession "Oranje-Nassau".
In Betrieb von 1899 bis 1974.
Niederlande, Limburg
Looking back to the summer a pair of 20's provided on elf the local moves of the year as far as I was concerned.
With a combined age of 119 years, GBRf liveried Class 20 No 20901 and BR large logo liveried Class 20 No 2011 'Saltburn-by-the-Sea' are seen running around at Kellingley with the 6Z20 stock move from Kellingley Colliery - Chaddesden Sidings.
A view of Wulong Colliery, Fuxin, Liaoning Province, China. The mine, which had been in production since 1957, was reported to produce 2 million tonnes of coal per annum. It remained in operation until August 2016, when it ceased production due to bankruptcy. Sadly, this resulted in the immediate cessation of the steam operation at Fuxin. At the time of my visit, there were eleven SY steam locomotives in Fuxin, nine operational and two in the workshop undergoing repairs.
Being a child of the mid 1950’s, born and bred in Nottingham and working for British Rail from the mid 1970’s coal and coal mining was a familiar sight for the first thirty odd years of my life. Now it’s almost all gone with just a few reminders of the nations coal history.
There is still the “coal mountain” at one of the last coal fired power stations, Ratcliffe which I drive past fairly regularly.
This is another, the pit head (headstocks and power house) still standing at Clipstone Colliery, near Mansfield, 25th July 2019. The colliery opened in 1927 and was deepened and modernised in 1953 when all the old equipment including the old steam winders, boilers, and fan, were scrapped and the winding houses, headframes, boiler house, fan house and heapstead buildings were demolished. They were replaced by new heapsteads, headframes, a fan house, and a winder/power house located between the two shafts. The colliery briefly closed in 1993 but reopened under RJ Budge in 1994. It finally closed in 2003 after a further 4 million tons of coal had been mined and was now effectively “worked out”. The headgear and winder house became Grade II listed buildings in 2000 as the architecture of these buildings is excellent for a post war twentieth century colliery. Since closure all the other elements of the colliery have been demolished.
62-637 leaves Bukinje colliery and railway workshops. This locomotive was working the coal traffic from the colliery to Tuzla power station.
20214 & 20170 are at Sutton Colliery, although I did not know it at the time of my visit 25/07/1989 this colliery was to close 18 days later on 11/08/1989, it was closed through exhaustion of viable coal reserves. Today it is a Country Park
The colliery was situated north of Sutton-in-Ashfield,i t was reached by rail from the Silver Hill Colliery Branch which left the Erewash Valley at a junction near Tibshelf.
The train loading at Sutton was complicated in that the MGR had to be split in two, each section loaded and then coupled up to form a full train. The picture shows a loaded half train with 20214 leading leaving the loader, the pit head gear still flies the flag.
20214 was built by English Electric, it entered service new to Thornaby 20/05/1967 as D8314 it was withdrawn 09/06/1993 and lives on in preservation.
20170 was built at English Electric as D8170, it entered service 25/10/1966. The loco was withdrawn 15/11/1991 and scrapped at MC Metals (Springburn) 12/09/1993
Copyright Geoff Dowling 25/07/1989: All rights reserved
Former BR Class 14 D9531, numbered NCB D2/9531, shunting coal wagons at Ashington Colliery. Wednesday 25th January 1978. D9531 is now preserved at the East Lancs. Railway and named 'Ernest'.
Former main line locomotive 126-014 stands in the sleet outside the washery at Resavica colliery in Serbia. It was built by MAVAG, Budapest, in 1899.
Two foot gauge Andrew Barclay 0-4-0WT "Glyder" (Works No.1994) runs in front of the colliery at Beamish with a short train.
The huge power house at a former German coal mine. Although the original machinery had long gone, it was still an impressive space.
56019 is waiting to depart from Sherwood Colliery (Mansfield) with an MGR service. In the foreground is a distressed lamp hut made from corrugated iron, it is in use and the glazing at the far end is still in place but it has a few holes in it, these have been plugged with chewing gum, not hygenic but better than a draught.
56019 was built by Elecrroputere in Cravia, Romania. The loco entered service 13/05/1977. A considerable amount of rectification was needed on the Romanian class 56's before they became reliable.
Copyright Geoff Dowling 13/09/1985: All rights reserved