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Fully-fitted; a pair of 20s brings a train of loads for Avenue down the branch from Rufford; Sept 1981.
Class 20 105 & Hudswell Clarke works no 895 built 1905 'No 9' at Bedlay Colliery. Andrew Barclay 2296 built 1952 can be seen in the background. The original photograph was taken on Kodachrome slide film with an Ashai Pentax Spotmatic 2.
From left to right HE 3823/54 'Warrior', RSH 7135/44 'Gwyneth' & HE 3776/52 'Bickershaw' on shed at Bickershaw Colliery, Leigh. The original photo was taken on Kodachrome slide film. 1014
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR GREAT COMMENTS
NO BLACK COAL
No black coal carpeting hills and earth
No colliery winding gear wheel
No clanking noise of machinery
No cries of trapped souls in coal tunnels
Now green grass with trees and wild flowers
Now wheel so still and full of beauty
Now the serenity of the hills
Now cries of birds and spirits past
By Henrhyde
Location ---Aberdare Country Park
Northern view of Aberdare Country Park showing former pit winding gear of Nant-y-Melyn Colliery .
The Dare Valley is a beautiful glacial valley. It includes all of the classic features of a south Wales mining valley - a spectacular glacial cwm at the head of the valley (with peat bogs above), alder woodlands, pastures, old coal tips and remodelled coal waste, conifer plantations and classic mining villages. It provides excellent examples of post-industrial biodiversity, at a variety of sites, including some of the oldest-established remediation areas for public use in S Dare Valley Country Park was the first country park in England and Wales to be created from land ravaged by industry.
Set in 500 acres of countryside. The Park was opened in December 1973. It was built on land reclaimed from over a century of coal mining in the area. The land reclamation took two years and involved the clearing of coal tips and re-routing of the River Dare.
Nineteen pits and drift mines once tore open the land and the countryside was black.
The woodland has regenerated and wildlife abounds. Wild flowers colour the hillsides in the spring and summer while Herons, Coots, Dippers and Cormorants make their home in the lake. The Park features two artificial lakes (an upper and lower) with a cascade on the Dare down to the lower lake
There are many historical remnants of the coal mining past to be seen in the Park, including colliery coal trams, and pit winding gear which forms part of a monument in the northern part of the Park. In 1985 a Visitor Centre was established at the Park.
Two railway lines operated in the area by rival companies. The Dare and Aman Branch of the Vale of Neath Railway reached the local Bwllfa Colliery in 1857. This railway reached Cwmdare from Gelli Tarw near Llwydcoed, crossing the Gamlyn Viaduct at Penywaun and Dare Viaduct. Both viaducts were designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The second line to Cwmdare was built by the Taff Vale Railway and followed a route near the River Dare from a junction close to Aberdare. This line was opened in 1866.
Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange is now the Scottish National Mining Museum. The colliery was sunk by the Lothian Coal Company in 1890 and came into production in 1894. It was closed in 1981.
Colas Class 37, 37116 is seen leaving Thoresby Colliery junction working top and tail with 37057. 3Q18 08:17 Derby R.T.C - Derby R.T.C.
From left to right HE 3823/54 'Warrior', RSH 7135/44 'Gwyneth' & HE 3776/52 'Bickershaw' on shed at Bickershaw Colliery, Leigh. The original photo was taken on Kodachrome slide film. 1015
Xingshan colliery 4-wheel overhead electric loco 06 heading a rake of empty mine tubs past the front of the mine offices, in the falling snow on 7th January 2002.
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Colas Class 37, 37116 is seen leaving Thoresby Colliery junction working top and tail with 37057. 3Q18 08:17 Derby R.T.C - Derby R.T.C.
On the run back down from the colliery screens to the exchange sidings at Maerdy, D3000 was parked up semi derelict on a disused section of track. Seen from the cab of 08361.
Lewin 18 shunts chaldron wagons in the Beamish Colliery yard whilst Peckett 1370 simmers outside the shed.
58033 in Trainload Coal livery stands in the headshunt at Welbeck Colliery Jn after arriving with a set of empties from Toton. This was the view out of the signalbox window, not too much thought of composition back in those days! 14th April 1994. This loco was the only one of the class I never managed to get on slide film, all my shots of it are on print.
Freightliner Class 47, 47830 (D1645) "Beeching's Legacy" is seen arriving at Thoresby Colliery Junction at the start of the High Marnham Test Track. The train crew are doing a route learner on the test track to learn the route for the commissioning of a new HOBC (High Output Ballast Cleaner) that is going to be commissioned on the test track.
0K47 07:23 Leeds Midland Road - High Marnham.
Trainload Coal liveried class 56 locomotive 56128 leads Pathfinder Tours "The Trent-Wreake", across the 1963 built viaduct having just gained access to the 1.5 mile branch to Cotgrave Colliery at Rectory Junction.
Traffic along this branch had already ceased at the time of our visit, a victim of the declining coal traffic and pit closures.
The tour also visited Calverton Colliery and Gedling Colliery, destinations that are now lost to railways.
13th February 1993
It really was fun to stand around in the snow at Dongchang Colliery watching the servicing of the locomotives at shift change. At this point the it was time to return to duties and SY 1058 makes a brisk start heading for the washery at Beichang.
Clipstone Colliery
Nottinghamshire
UK
1 April 2009
As I cannot go out with my camera under the current Covid-19 restrictions I've been trawling through the back catalogue for uploads. Here is a shot of the headstocks of Clipstone Colliery take eleven years ago. They still stand today awaiting a decision on their future.
DRS 37402 ‘Stephen Middlemore’ on the 2C40 08:42 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness service at Parton on Monday 20 June 2016. The finger post points the way through former colliery gates to link with the official route of the England Coastal Path.
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Misc 28
Wankie colliery #7 was an ex-Rhodesia Railways 19th Class. Originally used through Botswana, they were equipped with high capacity water tenders. Seen here approaching the colliery with the slag heap in the background.
Here are the rest of the Cwmbran colliery pictures. This one is just a detail of one of the brick channels for the water flow, but I like the contrast provided by the ferns.
58003 is seen in the head shunt at Kiveton Colliery on 1st May 1995. The colliery ceased mining in 1994, with the stockpile taking quite a while to be removed.
Freightliner Class 66, 66617 is seen at Thoresby Colliery with a light engine move to the High Marnham test track to move the new HOBC around.
0Y37 06:27 Doncaster Up Decoy - Thoresby Colliery Junction.
This wet and murky day was in keeping with the mood of the era before mass decimation of the coal mining industry. Yorkshire Engine 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic DL9 (W/No.2887 of 1963) at Whitwell Colliery on 16th March 1983; coal production ceased there in June 1986 after 96 years of production, the site being cleared in 1987.
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This is Pathfinders 'Trent Wreake' in Calverton Colliery on the 13th February 1993.
58046 left with the last coal train on the 20th May 1999.
The National Coal Mining Museum for England. Very interesting place indeed. We got to go down a deep pit coal mine. Incredible, but no photos unfortunately. Anything powered by battery is forbidden.
58027 crawls along the loading line at Kiveton Colliery whilst the dump trucks get busy loading the black stuff, 10th March 1994.
08510 entering the exchange sidings at Manvers Main colliery, with a train of empty MGR wagons. 18th September 1985.
Freightliner Class 47, 47830 (D1645) "Beeching's Legacy" is seen arriving at Thoresby Colliery Junction at the start of the High Marnham Test Track. The train crew are doing a route learner on the test track to learn the route for the commissioning of a new HOBC (High Output Ballast Cleaner) that is going to be commissioned on the test track.
0K47 07:23 Leeds Midland Road - High Marnham.