Sentence examples for colliery lines from inspiring English sources

Numerous colliery lines crossed the town, but with the closure of the collieries these were no longer required.

The tramway from Leeds ran parallel to the colliery line to Hunslet Moor staithes and then headed south through Middleton Woods to a terminus on the Ring Road.

They were created with admirable foresight by the county council in the 1970s when former rail lines linking collieries, towns and stations during the industrial revolution were ripped up.

In his case, it was after 15 years as a miner, the last year of which was spent on the National Union of Mineworkers' picket line at Clipstone colliery in Nottinghamshire during the strike that led to the end of the industry.

The queues outside Easington Colliery Club were reminiscent of those lining up for broth and bread 29 years ago during the miners' strike.

On 19 January 1811, the original High Main seam at Felling Colliery was closed, but by that time the colliery had grown enormously.

The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, its first line connected collieries near Shildon with Stockton-on-Tees and Darlington, and was officially opened on 27 September 1825.

When the miners went on strike in 1984 over pit closures, Harpham joined the fight and manned a picket line for a year at Clipstone colliery, while many in Nottinghamshire worked on in protest against Arthur Scargill's refusal to call a national ballot.

The slag heap of Bold Colliery that lumped into the sky beyond the railway line, I assumed that was Vesuvius.

A branch to Perceton Colliery (a short northward spur from the Irvine - Busbie line) opened on 26 June 1848.

And fans from Nottingham can expect abuse whenever they travel to Yorkshire, a hangover from the miners' strike of the 1980s when colliery workers from Nottingham were among the first to cross the picket lines and accept the government's redundancy.