Colliery Lines

Coventry Colliery: misc_cc012

British Railways built 0-6-0T No 1501 is seen in steam whilst standing on the roads outside of Coventry Colliery's shed. Whilst only built in 1949, No 1501 was one of the first of the class to be withdrawn in 1961 to be sold with No 1502 and No 1509 to the National Coal Board for use at Coventry Colliery. Coventry Colliery was also known as Keresley Colliery and had its origins in 1911 when shafts were sunk by a coal mining company near Keresley and began operating in 1917. The colliery's main shafts are just outside the north-east boundary of Keresley on Newland House Farm in Exhall, but the buildings, the branch railway, and other workings have straddled the boundary on to part of the former open fields called Leightons. Two years later in 1919 the branch line to Three Spires Junction on the Nuneaton to Coventry line was built to serve the colliery.

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