Aldwarke Main Colliery information

Aldwarke Main Colliery was a coal mine sunk in the Don Valley, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The name "Aldwarke" refers to an area in the...

local collieries, Aldwarke Main and Roundwood. The stopping passenger service fitted in with the requirements of the shift workers at collieries and with...

Mine, named Roundwood, was set a short distance north of Aldwarke Main Colliery between the main line of the Midland Railway, north of Parkgate and Rawmarsh...

Corps. (Plumstead, SE18). Frank William Gale, Foreman Blacksmith, Aldwarke Main Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board. (Rotherham). Horace...

September 1913 Ais Gill rail accident; collision 3 December 1923 Nunnery Colliery 13 December 1926 Orgreave Paddy Mail accident 1 February 2008 Barrow upon...

so close that in 1965 British Railways built a new junction complex at Aldwarke and the current Wakefield Line now follows the former Great Central line...

and the two mainline railways serving the town Aldwarke Main and Roundwood. The last three collieries mentioned being the last of these to close, the...

downstream of Aldwarke Weir and upstream of Aldwarke Lock. It was rebuilt in 1834. In more recent times, it has been superseded by the A6123 (Aldwarke Lane) road...

Sheffield power box took over control of the line between Holmes Junction and Aldwarke Junction. The box was demolished over the weekend of 30–31 January 1988...

2015) and Sharlston. In South Yorkshire, there was Maltby Main Colliery and Hatfield Colliery (closed in June 2015) at Stainforth. The NUM was very Yorkshire-dominated...

over the North Midland line through Rotherham Masborough as far north as Aldwarke Junction (south of Kilnhurst). In 1987, the opening of a new connecting...

1850. The branch connected to the main line to Barnsley at Elsecar junction, and served Earl Fitzwilliam's colliery in Elsecar. The coal was passed to...

Freight trains carrying steel products continue using this line between Aldwarke and Stocksbridge. In 1967, it was proposed that parts of the route and...

Railway's (GCR) Sheffield Victoria - Doncaster line, between Parkgate and Aldwarke and Swinton Central. A single track line was built by the South Yorkshire...

only surviving daughter Mary Arabella married Francis Ferrand Foljambe of Aldwarke in 1774. John Thornhaugh Hewett, M.P. for Nottinghamshire from 1747 to...

Yorkshire Railway Sheffield - Rotherham line. A new connection was made at Aldwarke, where the former Midland and South Yorkshire lines ran close together...