Lambton Collieries information

Lambton Collieries was a privately owned colliery and coal mining company, based in County Durham, England. The name derives from Lambton Castle, the...

initially as a tramway from 1737, to enable coal to be transported from Lambton Collieries to the Port of Sunderland. It closed under the ownership of the National...

Lambton Colliery Railway No.29 is a preserved 0-6-2 tank locomotive built by Kitson and Company for the Lambton Colliery network in 1904. It was the first...

Church. Sherburn Hill Colliery opened in 1835, owned then by the Earl of Durham. By the 1890s it was owned by Lambton Collieries Ltd, and the pit employed...

the oldest working locomotive in the world". After Lambton Collieries merged with Hetton Collieries in 1911, the companies also amalgamated their respective...

Burn shown as "Bourn Moor" and the colliery complex which was later known as Lambton is shown as Bourn Moor Colliery. The end-19th century map shows the...

Pittington and High Pittington, which were developed for coal mining by Lambton Collieries from the 1820s. High Pittington, the larger of the two, now includes...

Henry Lambton (1697–1761), of Lambton Hall, county Durham, was a British landowner, colliery owner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons...

several collieries in the West Durham coalfield including pits at Beamish and Tanfield. In 1924, that company merged with Lambton & Hetton Collieries to form...

politician. Born in Durham, at the age of 15 he was apprenticed to Lambton Collieries whilst attending classes at Durham College of Science. In 1890 he...

Lambton. From 1883 Ralph Snowball worked at the Lambton Colliery as a miner. He worked at the colliery until June, 1884. After leaving the colliery,...

crossing of the Scottish Australian Coal Mining Company's Lambton Colliery line, to the colliery. Construction of this new line commenced in January 1874...

period leading up to full re-opening of the line, when it piloted Lambton Collieries Tank No. 29 on the Royal Re-opening Special of 1 May 1973. Following...

family to Lambton, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales. After primary education at Lambton Public School, Charlton began work at Lambton Colliery as a coal...

Strathmore. Susan Lyon, John's sister, married John Lambton in 1763. Major General John Lambton was the Member of Parliament for Durham City from 1762...