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Windsor Colliery was a coal mine in the village of Abertridwr, Caerphilly.

Opened in 1895, it amalgamated with the Nantgarw Colliery in 1974, and closed in 1986. Ty'n y Parc (Welsh for "house on the park") housing estate now occupies the site.

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Windsor Colliery

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Windsor Colliery was a coal mine in the village of Abertridwr, Caerphilly. Opened in 1895, it amalgamated with the Nantgarw Colliery in 1974, and closed...

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Ynysybwl

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resultant sinking of Lady Windsor Colliery by the Ocean Coal Company on 16 June 1884 gave birth to new coal town. Lady Windsor Colliery opened in 1886, with...

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Lady Windsor Colliery

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51°38′20″N 3°21′32″W / 51.639°N 3.359°W / 51.639; -3.359 Lady Windsor Colliery was a coal mine located in the village of Ynysybwl in South Wales. Opened...

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Mining in Wales

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Garw/Ffaldau Colliery Gresford Colliery (closed 1973) Great Western Mine Groesfaen Colliery, Bargoed. Sunk 1902, closed 1968. Hafodyrynys Colliery Lady Windsor Colliery...

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Windsor Colliery Halt railway station

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Windsor Colliery Halt railway station served Windsor Colliery in the village of Abertridwr, in the historic county of Glamorgan, Wales, from 1943 to 1964...

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Universal Colliery

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Wales. Started in 1891, it became a ventilation facility for the Windsor Colliery in 1928 before complete closure in 1988. Senghenydd, and neighbouring...

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Rhymney Railway

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station, extensive colliery sidings and a locomotive shed. Passenger traffic ceased in 1964. The line continued to serve Windsor Colliery at Abertridwr until...

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Abercynon Colliery

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Retrieved 13 March 2009. "Lady Windsor Ynysybwl". Welshcoalmines.co.uk. Retrieved 29 May 2016. "BBC - Wales - Lady Windsor Colliery". Archived from the original...

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Nantgarw

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and the unit merged with Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr, Caerphilly from 1975. By 1979, the combined Nantgarw/Windsor Colliery employed around 650 men,...

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Abercynon

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Lady Windsor Colliery at Ynysybwl. Known as the Abercynon Lady Windsor Colliery, it closed in 1988. A memorial marks the location of the colliery in the...

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Ynysybwl branch line railway

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then called Aberdare Junction). In fact the colliery development was limited, but the Lady Windsor Colliery became productive in 1886 and had a large output...

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Nantgarw Colliery

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and the unit merged with Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr, Caerphilly from 1975. By 1979, the combined Nantgarw/Windsor Colliery employed around 650 men,...

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Deep Navigation Colliery

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Deep Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in South Wales, that operated from 1872 until 1991. Located next to the co-developed village of Treharris in the...

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Locomotives of the Great Western Railway

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was sold to the Ocean Coal Co Ltd in August 1932 for use at the Lady Windsor Colliery in Ynysbwl; it was scrapped in 1956. B 0-6-2T 25 6–20, 23–32 198–201...

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Taff Vale Railway

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November 1959. Lady Windsor Colliery continued in business, served from the Stormstown direction, until closure of the colliery on 26 March 1988 and...

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PD Ports

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Rhymney Iron Company, the Windsor Colliery, collieries from Lewis Morthyr, the Great Western Colliery Company and the Nantgawr Colliery; all acquired in the...

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Senghenydd

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urbanised in the 1890s, when the Universal and Windsor collieries were sunk in this region. The Universal Colliery at Senghenydd suffered the first of two major...

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Abertridwr railway station

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Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station Windsor Colliery Halt   Great Western Railway Rhymney Railway   Penyrheol Halt...

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Senghenydd railway station

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Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station Terminus   Rhymney Railway   Windsor Colliery Halt Line and station closed...

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Company town

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Grand Falls-Windsor was built as a company town in central Newfoundland...

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Aber railway station

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trains). The latter opened in 1894 and was used for both freight (to Windsor Colliery near the terminus) and passenger services. The Senghenydd branch passenger...

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Barry Railway Class A

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703) was withdrawn in May 1932 and sold to Ocean Coal Co Ltd at Lady Windsor Colliery in Ynysybwl; it was scrapped in 1956. No. 3 (GWR 702) was withdrawn...

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1907 in Wales

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of 14 crew. 5 March – Six miners are killed in a shaft accident at Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr. 19 March – The National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth)...

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Oaks explosion

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caused by firedamp ripped through the underground workings at the Oaks Colliery at Hoyle Mill near Stairfoot in Barnsley killing 361 miners and rescuers...

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Middleton Railway

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operate successfully. Three other locomotives were built for the Middleton colliery, and the railway was locomotive-operated for more than twenty years. A...

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Glenrothes

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development of a newly established National Coal Board 'super pit', the Rothes Colliery. The mine closed early in its life and the town's economy thereafter transitioned...

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