YORKSHIRE MAIN COLLIERY

The following picture is of the railway sideings box at yorkshire main.



The next picture is of  the original sign from the box, now on display at the railway museum in york.



The following are coal mine cars from various collierys.

















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 Post card issued in 1985.

 

WORKING ON THE COAL FACE.



A road junction support.

Modern coal cutting machine in a high face



 Driving the face machine.



 Again the face machine.



The face machine at Maltby



Face machine at Rossington.

The next picture is of clipstone colliery in nottinghamshire, recently closed.

The following two pictures are of thoresby colliery in mansfield, still working, 2005.

Bentley colliery diesel garage.

Maltby colliery sidings.

        The next picture shows a Butty tin / pay tin, these where used to collect your pay at the end of the week, you gave your number, which is on the top of the tin and your pay was handed back to you in the tin, this system ended in the 1940s in the yorkshire area and was replaced by pay packets. The tin in the picture originates from the Rossington colliery.

            Pit prop advertisement.

Harworth colliery from the top of Rossington colliery.