Mine complex based around Selby, North Yorkshire, England
Gascoigne Wood, covered conveyors, and rail wagon loading bays (2006)
Selby coalfield (also known as the Selby complex, or Selby 'superpit') was a large-scale deep underground mine complex based around Selby, North Yorkshire, England, with pitheads at Wistow Mine, Stillingfleet Mine, Riccall Mine, North Selby Mine, Whitemoor Mine and at Gascoigne Wood Mine. All coal was brought to the surface and treated at Gascoigne Wood before being distributed by rail. The primary purpose of the pit was to supply coal for electrical power generation; much of it was used in the nearby Aire valley power stations.
Mining peaked in 1993–4 at 12 million tonnes a year. The mines were acquired by RJB Mining in 1997 after the privatisation of the coal industry; loss of financial subsidy, geological problems, and low UK coal prices made the pits unprofitable by the 21st century. Closure was announced in 2002, and mining completely ceased by 2004.
Selbycoalfield (also known as the Selby complex, or Selby 'superpit') was a large-scale deep underground mine complex based around Selby, North Yorkshire...
of Selby as a market town has declined in recent decades and its short-lived prominence as the centre of the SelbyCoalfield has also waned. Selby is...
the coalfield stretches beyond the Wakefield district and other parts of West Yorkshire as far as Keighley and Kellingley Colliery and the Selby Coalfield...
discovered SelbyCoalfield. The line opened in 1983, running roughly northwest from a junction on the ECML near Temple Hirst, south of Selby, to a junction...
with the NUM on the basis that the workers could transfer to the new SelbyCoalfield. Seckar Woods nature reserve, located near the more affluent village...
Colliery closed in 1981. Many of the miners took transfers to the new SelbyCoalfield. A seven-sided stone obelisk listing the names of the seven miners...
coal was mined from beneath the village as Riccall Mine, part of the SelbyCoalfield. According to the 2011 census the parish had a total population of...
published by the Centre for Policy Studies. 29 October – Opening of SelbyCoalfield. 12 November – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son...
in Cornwall and moved to Yorkshire when her father sought work at SelbyCoalfield. For several years she helped care for her brother Matty. He had sustained...
include Acaster Selby, Naburn and Appleton Roebuck. Stillingfleet was once the site of UK Coal's Stillingfleet Mine, part of the SelbyCoalfield, which closed...
common in the 1970s, and new investments were made in sites such as the SelbyCoalfield. In early 1984, the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher announced...
in the Wakefield area, many of the miners took transfers to the new SelbyCoalfield on closure. A full history was written in the same year by the pit's...
marshalling yards in Cambridgeshire, England Whitemoor, a pit in the SelbyCoalfield, England Harap Alb, a Romanian-language fairy tale, often translated...
connection for the colliery Carolyn Baylies (1993), "10. The Yorkshire Coalfield after 1900 – opening up of the Doncaster Area", The History of the Yorkshire...
Parkhill and Walton all closed. As the Wakefield pits closed, the SelbyCoalfield was being opened, many colliers in Wakefield accepted offers to transfer...
Huskar Pit was a coal mine on the South Yorkshire Coalfield, sunk to work the Silkstone seam. It was located in Nabs Wood, outside the village of Silkstone...
of the SelbyCoalfield was brought to the surface. The Selby Diversion of the East Coast Main Line opened in 1983, passing under the Leeds-Selby Line between...
industry continued to increase, including the establishment of the new SelbyCoalfield. By the early 1980s, many pits were almost 100 years old and were considered...
In the late 1970s in the north of England, the development of the SelbyCoalfield – and the anticipated subsidence that might result from its workings –...
power stations were built during the post-Beeching era, close to the SelbyCoalfield which supplied them via Gascoigne Wood until the field's closure at...
The coal seams worked in the South Yorkshire Coalfield lie mainly in the middle coal measures within what is now formally referred to as the Pennine Coal...
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