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60045 "Josephine Butler" - 6T76 (1101 Fidlers Ferry Power Station - Parkside Colliery, which was formed of 45 empty HAAs) - Arpley Jn -1111 - 09/06/92.
Bellerophon works a miners train up the grade out of Dilhorne Colliery, on the Foxfield Railway in Staffordshire at sunrise on 29 December 2014.
Former BR Class 14 D9525, bearing the NCB Ashington North East running number '507', in charge of MGR wagons for loading, setting back alongside Ashington Colliery on 17th September 1986.
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58039 is slowly moving towards the loading bunker at Bilsthorpe colliery, it was taken from an overbridge on the closed joint LNER/Midland line which ran from a junction near Kirklington to a junction near Ollerton, part of the Nottinghamshire coal field
58039 was built at Doncaster Works, it entered service 13/03/1986. between 13/09/1986 and 30/04/1997 it carried the name Rugeley Power Station. The loco was exported to France and carried ETF livery and branding
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The colliery at Bukinje used to send its coal to the nearby Tuzla power station, but this picturesque little pit has now closed.
37175 & 37219 pass the recently closed Hatfield Colliery, with the 1Q06 Doncaster-Doncaster via Barton-on-Humber and Cleethorpes test train, 6.7.15.
For me this was perhaps more about the diagonal parallel lines created by the logs rather than the waterfall. However I did back up as far as possible and zoomed in as much as I could with a 24-70mm lens to maximize the somewhat distant waterfall.
SY 1369 shunts a train from Xinhua Colliery at the reversing point at Zhengyang Colliery on the Jixi Coal Railway. The headframe in the background shows that this colliery is accessed via a steep drift rather than a vertical shaft.
Observed by the weighbridge supervisor, Andrew Barclay 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic (W/No.488 built in 1964) positions loaded internal wagons at the coal loading screens serving Ashington colliery on 17th September 1986.
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1st Feb 1969 , Banking a coal train out of Astley Green Colliery. Its moody and gritty mono from the Harvey Scowcroft collection and I love it.
The last but one deep mining colliery in Britain was Thoresby which was sunk in 1925. This was taken during its last week of production.
The Foxfield Railway near Stoke on Trent in the Staffordshire Moorlands held its annual summer Steam Gala. I spent the day down the colliery area.
A scene at Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, about 1970. The loco on the right is a Grant, Ritchie locomotive, no.536 of 1914.
On the left, nearest to us, is Andrew Barclay, Works No. 1458, No3 Lady Victoria.
After withdrawal she was donated to the Scottish Mining Museum and after being cosmetically restored, she is on display there. The scene is now the Museum.
Grant, Ritchie was a spin-off company from Andrew Barclay formed after a disasterous fire gutted the Andrew Barclay works. An apocryphal tale relates how two of the ex-Barclay employees now forming Grant, Ritchie were seen coming out of Barclays with armfuls of plans! Certainly their locos bear many of the AB features, although the 0-4-2 wheel arrangement seen here was unusual for Barclays.
Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 saddle tank 'Caledonia Works' (W/No.1219 built in 1910) in charge of a mixed rake of wagons at Beamish colliery.
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Pennington Flash is a 70-hectare (170-acre) lake created at the turn of the 20th century by coal mining subsidence, mainly from Bickershaw Colliery. Before the flash the area contained two farms, both of which were abandoned in the early 1900s due to flooding.
From the Coastal Walk starting in Easington Colliery heading south past Fox Holes Dene to Horden Point. Taken looking down on Horden Beach
Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 saddle tank 'Caledonia Works' (Works No.1219 built in 1910) shunting the Beamish colliery yard.
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I instantly fell in love with this locomotive when I saw it shunting the yard at Resavica colliery in Serbia. 126-014 was built in 1899 by MAVAG, Budapest, for main line services. I have no idea how long it has been in industrial use.
Pure industrial "grot", as powerful Henschel 0-8-0 tank 'Anna N.2' (Works No.29884 of 1947) stands in between shunting the Deutsche Bundesbahn exchange yard at EBV Anna Colliery (Zeche Anna) at Alsdorf, near Aachen, on 19th March 1972.
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Photographed just ten minutes after an inbound biomass working (image uploaded yesterday), 60096 is seen in charge of biomass empties en route to the port at Immingham. Photo taken just west ion the former Kellingley Colliery site.
66175 rumbles through Hatfield and Stainforth station with the loaded 6H62 0815 Immingham Biomass to Drax biomass working.
The backdrop is dominated by the winding gear of Hatfield colliery which closed in 2015.
20th January 2023.
JS locomotives 8358 and 8366 are seen at Er Jing Colliery to convey the next load of coal to Nanzhan. Sandaoling, Xinjiang Province, China.
With its chime whistle echoing off the mine buildings, 'SY' 0498 blasts through Da Lu Colliery with empty spoil tipplers on the electrified Hegang system at midday on 8th January 2002.
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I set myself a challenge to take photos of old buildings before they disappear for good. This is the former site of Wardley Colliery, because I have mobility problems this is the only area I had access too.
'QJ' No.3598 passing beneath the conveyors of Qixing colliery heading passenger diagram 83, the 12:30 Shuangyashan to Shuangxing, on 3rd January 2002. At this point the train had travelled for around one hour and forty-five minutes through an interesting hilly terrain, dotted with small mines, but from this point on the surrounding area dramatically changed, opening out onto an open wind-swept plain, bitterly cold and uninspiring.
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Peter used 2 cameras during his visit to Ashington Colliery on June 1st 1959, his little 33mm square negative camera for loco 'snaps' and his 6x6 cm for the better views. This is one of the 6x6 negatives, a general view of the colliery with RSH7768/1954 (NCB 42) in steam.
We see in the foreground a couple of coaches which were used for miners 'Paddy' trains. A fine assortment of wagons are present, most fully loaded with coal.
Ashington was very much a mining area with The Bothal shaft being sunk in 1867, this was expanded to 5 coal mines in operation.
Peter Shoesmith 01/06/1959
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The decision to travel to Scotland in 1978 in search of industrial steam was a good one; to do it in the middle of winter, perhaps less so.
Being pitched out of the train at Glasgow in a blizzard was an inauspicious start, but I had made it to Bedlay Colliery, Glenboig by mid-morning, the last leg of the journey having been made on a farmer's tractor.
The good news was that there was steam, the bad news was that there was no traffic, BR being unable to access the colliery.
Thus I had to contend myself with following Hudswell Clarke 0.6.0T No.9 (895/09), mooching around the yard, with nothing to do other than round up the odd stray wagon.
Bedlay Colliery closed in 1981, steam to the end, No.9 passing to the Summerlee Heritage Park, Coatbridge
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Hatfield colliery had unexpectedly closed down at the beginning of July being unable to sell its coal as world coal prices had plummeted. Stockpiling by the power stations prior to an increase in tax on coal also meant there was no immediate demand. The pit opened in 1916 and had been expected to last through to it's centenary in 2016 befiore final closure.
On 24th April 1992, the weighbridge and yard control tower serving Ellington colliery, Lynemouth, affectionately known as "Big E". Standing on the weighbridge is Andrew Barclay 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic '20/110/711' (W/No.615 built in 1977 and rebuilt in by Andrew Barclay in 1987), and beyond in the yard is Andrew Barclay 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic '2100/521' (W/No.584 built in 1973 and rebuilt by Andrew Barclay in 1987 and Hunslet-Barclay in 1990). Located 16 miles north of Newcastle, the adjoining Ellington colliery was combined with Lynmouth Colliery, which was opened in 1909. It worked a number of coal seams extending to 15 miles beneath the North Sea, reputedly the largest undersea mine in the world. Around two-thirds of its output was despatched to the nearby aluminium smelter, with the remainder consumed by the CEGB. It was closed by British Coal in February 1994, but the mine was maintained until acquired by RJB Mining, with mining resuming in 1995. Final closure came in January 2005 after an inundation of water underground made operations unsafe. Residential housing now occupies the site.
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