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Wallarah Colliery
Dated: c.1895
Digital ID: 10036_a027000041
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08762 stands at the end of the former Rossington Colliery branch line, with the BLS van 'Molly' during a Branch Line Society event which covered the branch line. 10/07/2022
A perfect summer morning on the 30th June 1994 as 58010 passes Meadow Farm towards Bentinck colliery with the 05.58 empties from Toton.
©Dave Peachey.
SY1320 departs Wulong colliery with a train of coal likely destined for Fuxin power station. Liaoning Province, China.
A welcome contrast from Sandaoling open pit are the coal trains working the Erjing Colliery. In this scene, JS8358 heads across the bleak barren desert in the in the backdrop of the Tian Shan Mountains, hauling a coal train to Nanzhan from Erjing Colliery. The loaded wagons from Nanshan will be despatched to the national rail network at Liushuquan. Until 2011, these trains were hauled by two JS locomotives, one at the front and a banker at the rear, with up to 60 wagons. Sadly, they are now run by diesel locomotives.
British Coal Ashington colliery on 17th September 1986, with Andrew Barclay 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic (W/No.488 built in 1964) positioning wagons beneath the coal loading screens.
© Gordon Edgar - photographer Roy Burt - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
56082 stands in the desolate remains of Silverwood colliery on 5th June 1996. To the rear of the train 56083 can just be seen. The trains required top n tailing after the remaining trackwork was 'removed' shortly after the colliery closed, including the run round facilities.
As the mine adit emits coal dust, an operator prepares to lower by rope a rake of seven mine tubs down into the adit at Xingshan colliery, Hegang, on 7th January 2002.
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A general view of Ashington colliery railway yard on 25th March 1986, with former BR Class 14 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic locos going about their everyday business. In the foreground, 'N.C.B. No.1' (ex-BR D9500) is positioning wagons in the exchange sidings, whilst sister loco '507' (ex-BR D9525) stands alongside Ashington Colliery weighbridge. The Presto Food Market alongside the railway, a chain of supermarkets established in the 1960s and largely taken over by Safeway by the 1990s, is clearly a popular shopping venue on this Tuesday lunchtime.
© Gordon Edgar - photographer Roy Burt - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
A sad corner of the Chatterley Whitfield Colliery with the headgear of the Platt shaft in the background.
NCB locos 25 & 8 head a train of loaded wagons towards the exchange sidings at Polkemmet colliery on 26/09/79
ex BR D2519 (Hudswell Clarke D1210/62) at Hatfield Colliery near Doncaster. The original photo was shot on Kodachrome slide film.
A 56 (may be 120 as it was about) engages in a spot of shunting at Wearmouth colliery,now of course home to the stadium of light and Sunderland AFC.Hope they stay up this season.
The Sentinel DG8 superbly restored by Richard Straughan i seen in the colliery yard with Coffee pot taking on some coal and water.
Freightliner Class 66, 66553 is seen passing Freightliner Class 66, 66557 near Welbeck Colliery junction. Thoresby Colliery - West Burton PowerStation and West Burton PowerStation - Thoresby Colliery.
60011 waits for the shunter to arrive at Welbeck Colliery Junction on 17th february 1996. Always liked Mainline Blue livery, and even in flat light like this, still looks pretty good.
The USA tank moves off, against the wonderfully industrial backdrop of the Kakanj colliery in Bosnia.
April 2010. © David Hill.
British Coal closed Tower Colliery on 22 April 1994 but the workforce refused to give up and after pledging £8,000 each from their redundancy money bought the pit On 3 January 1995 the Colliery re-opened under the ownership of the workforce buy out company Goitre Tower Anthracite. Having extracted the economically attainable reserves the colliery was last worked on 18 January 2008 and the official closure occurred on 25 January. The company is currently involved in a joint venture with Hargreaves to extract a further 6 million tons of anthracite from an opencast operation.
Mainline Blue 58038 departs the yard at Thoresby Colliery Junction, whilst in the yard 58019 also awaits departure time. 18th November 1996.
1988 built QJ 7204 shuffles down the yard at Xinan Colliery towards the loading bunkers. By January 2006 this locomotive was relegated to standby and shunting as the line service had already been taken over by diesels. This big beast was one of the last of this class of locomotive built but had little time left and as far as I know this was the last time it was recorded in steam. It was seen dumped a few months later.
One of the last two 7th Class locos still operating, ex-SAR 7A 990, is seen shunting at Witbank Comsolidated colliery in 1979.
Sunset at Astley Colliery this evening. Astley Colliery / Lancashire Mining Museum Has the last surviving Headgear and winding house in the whole Lancashire Coalfield.
Brodsworth Hall, near Brodsworth, 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, is one of the most complete surviving examples of a Victorian country house in England. It is virtually unchanged since the 1860s. It was designed in the Italianate style by the obscure London architect, Philip Wilkinson, then 26 years old. He was commissioned by Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson, who inherited the estate in 1859, but the original estate was constructed in 1791 for merchant and slave owner Peter Thellusson. It is a Grade I listed building
George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, bought the Brodsworth estate from Sir John Wentworth in 1713 and rebuilt the house in the Georgian style, but lost his money in the South Sea Bubble crash of 1720 and was obliged to take the position of Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. His second son Robert, later Archbishop of York, took up residence on the estate instead and made a number of improvements to the house and grounds. On his death in 1777, the house was left empty, and, after his eldest son became the 10th Earl of Kinnoull in 1787, he sold the estate in 1790 to Peter Thellusson (1737–1797) of the Swiss banking family.
Peter Thellusson had come from Geneva and settled in England, becoming a director of the Bank of England. This role saw him provide loans to slave ship and plantation owners. As these slave owners defaulted on debts, Thellusson amassed interests in Caribbean plantations and became a tobacco and sugar importer. He wrote an unusual will, unsuccessfully challenged by his family in the Thellusson Will Case, whereby his fortune was put in trust to be untouched for three generations. Peter Thellusson's grandson Arthur Thellusson, married the daughter of another Antigua slave owner, Sir Christopher Bethell-Codrington. The Thellussons were slave owners in Grenada and Montserrat as late as 1820.
One of the two eventual beneficiaries was the 5th Baron Rendlesham. The other was Peter's great-grandson Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson who, in 1859, inherited half the bequest plus the Brodsworth estate with its Georgian house. He demolished the existing house and commissioned the present one, which was built in two years between 1861 and 1863. A keen yachtsman, he also commissioned four yachts, the last two being, successively, the largest in the world. He was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1866–1867. He and his wife Georgiana left four sons, all of whom died childless, and the house therefore passed to each son in turn. The third son, Charles Thellusson, leased the mineral rights to the Brodsworth Colliery Company and also rented them the land for the construction of Woodlands model village to accommodate the miners. In addition he paid for the construction of All Saints Church (1913) for the village. He was also responsible for the introduction of electric light to the hall.
After the First World War, spiralling costs resulted in the owners closing off parts of the house. On the death of the youngest son, Augustus Thellusson, in 1931, the house passed to his nephew, Captain Charles Grant-Dalton (1882–1952). He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1942–1943.
The last resident of the house was Sylvia Grant-Dalton (wife of Captain Grant-Dalton), who fought a losing battle for 57 years against leaking roofs on the mansion and land subsidence from nearby coal mining. After her death in 1988, Her daughter, Pamela Williams, gave the Hall and gardens to English Heritage in 1990. The contents of the house were purchased by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to the ownership of English Heritage. It was decided to conserve the interiors "as found" rather than replacing or restoring them. They demonstrate how a once opulent Victorian house grew "comfortably" old.
Designed in the Italianate style by Philip Wilkinson, the Hall is constructed in ashlar limestone, some quarried on the estate, with lead and slate roofs. Stonework, windows and interior fittings were reused from the older building. The building is "T" shaped with the servants quarters forming the upright. The main block, forming the cross-bar, is 2-storey rectangular range having 9-bay frontage. The house has more than 30 rooms, ranging from grand reception rooms with original furnishings to the servants' quarters. The house is surrounded by Victorian period gardens, which are used for special events throughout the summer.
The house is noted for Charles Sabine Thellusson's collection of paintings and sculptures, including a large collection of Italian sculptures bought at the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865.
20057 trips a set of HAA's from Bolsover past the signal box on 27th April 1982.
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National Coal Board's Vulcan Foundry "Austerity" 0-6-0ST No 33 (VF 5306/1945) enroute from the Whittle Colliery descends the bank to the exchange sidings at Southside - c.1969.
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