Haydock Collieries information

46250°N 2.650250°W / 53.46250; -2.650250 Haydock Collieries were collieries situated in and around Haydock on the Lancashire Coalfield which is now in...

as 'Yickers' . Haydock was one of the United Kingdom's richest areas in coal and coal mining, Haydock Collieries had up to 13 collieries working at one...

killed. The Wood Pit was one of at least 20 collieries in the area operated by the mining company Haydock Collieries. It consisted of the Ravenshead mine and...

January 1869, retrieved 30 November 2017 (subscription required) "The Haydock Colliery Explosion", Bolton Evening News, British Newspaper Archive via Findmypast...

1985. The Sankey Canal was built principally to transport coal from Haydock Collieries and Parr to the growing chemical industries of Liverpool, although...

Haydock railway station served the village of Haydock, formerly in Lancashire, now in Merseyside, England. The station was on the Liverpool, St Helens...

complicate matters, there was also a branch line from Richard Evans's collieries at Haydock which had a curve to join the L & M in the Manchester direction...

In 1947 when the industry was nationalised, there were 108 collieries Parkside Colliery in Newton le Willows was the last pit to be sunk in Lancashire...

Railway Legacy. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-7655-5. "Haydock to pay homage to Isle of Wight Freshwater". Steam Railway. No. 555. 29...

Wood Pit, Haydock. The site was restored by Lancashire County Council between 1981 and 1983 and opened to the public. Little trace of the colliery or its...

south east of Stoke-on-Trent. The line was built in 1893 to serve the colliery at Dilhorne on the Cheadle Coalfield. It joined the North Staffordshire...

North colliery. Coalbrook North colliery was one of the underground collieries of Clydesdale (Transvaal) Collieries Limited and was situated near Sasolburg...

Haydock Park railway station was a railway station adjacent to Haydock Park Racecourse, formerly in Lancashire and now in Merseyside, England. The station's...

connections to collieries in the district. The line was promoted by 19 sponsors who were mainly Wigan-area coal merchants and colliery owners. They wanted...

Helens Central Liverpool–Wigan line Haydock Haydock Colliery Tunnel Bickershaw and Abram Ashton-in-Makerfield Haydock Park Park Lane Halt Golborne South...

Helens Central Liverpool–Wigan line Haydock Haydock Colliery Tunnel Bickershaw and Abram Ashton-in-Makerfield Haydock Park Park Lane Halt Golborne South...

heavily loaded, but sporadic, passenger trains through the station were for Haydock Park racecourse. The station was demolished in 1977 to be replaced by Culcheth...

Helens Central Liverpool–Wigan line Haydock Haydock Colliery Tunnel Bickershaw and Abram Ashton-in-Makerfield Haydock Park Park Lane Halt Golborne South...

Helens Central Liverpool–Wigan line Haydock Haydock Colliery Tunnel Bickershaw and Abram Ashton-in-Makerfield Haydock Park Park Lane Halt Golborne South...

Winstanley, Ian G (1989). Weep Mothers, Weep: The Wood Pit Explosion, Haydock, 1878. Landy. ISBN 0-9507692-4-X. Gardiner, Ann, ed. (1998). Exploring...

1965, and to a scrapyard in Haydock. In 1968, a new connection ("spur") was built connecting a Shell oil terminal in Haydock, and scrapyard, to the West...