Sentence examples for to colliery from inspiring English sources

Women from the coalfields were arrested on picket lines, addressed rallies across the UK and Europe, and chained themselves to colliery gates.

Among other exhibits is a jukebox featuring a chart rundown of the country's greatest industrial sounds, from folk songs to colliery work.

Bolt-shotcrete is considered as an effective and economical support to colliery roadway (He and Sun 2004; Jing and Li 2008).

First, in 1847, a railway line was constructed, connecting Blyth to collieries at Seghill.

Near the top of the canal, a branch was constructed in 1800, which ran towards Maesmarchog, and was connected to collieries by nearly 1 mi of tramroad.

On 29 May 1854 the Midland Railway laid a third rail along their line to Gloucester to provide mixed gauge so that it could operate standard gauge passenger trains while broad gauge goods trains could still run to collieries north of Bristol.

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.

The company bought a 0-4-0 saddlocomotivecomotive, Bradford, from the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol in 1928 to shunt wagons to the colliery siding.

Late that year Liu went to the Anyuan colliery to organize miners for what was to become a successful strike.

A spur from the Great Western line on to the S&D and continuing to Writhlington Colliery remained open for a few years after the railway's closure to passenger traffic, until the colliery closed in 1973.

Last year, the government turned its back on investing in a new combined heat and power plant, planned to be built next door to Hatfield colliery.