Warwickshire's Colliery Lines

Although not a large a county Warwickshire had many industrial, colliery and mineral railways, mainly in the north of the county. The coalfields were located on the North Warwickshire coal field based on the towns of Tamworth (Note ¹) Nuneaton, Bedworth and the outskirts of the city of Coventry. In 1880 these included:

Several of the collieries were however owned and worked by one major company or colliery an example being the Hawkesbury Colliery Company which owned and operated five collieries including: Balance Colliery, Fly Colliery, Hawkesbury Colliery, New Winnings Colliery, Speedwell and Speedwell, New Winnings Collieries. The following collieries have been listed separately as we have sufficient photographs to justify their being treated separately whilst others have been aggregated together.

Note ¹ Tamworth became a Staffordshire borough from 1st April 1889.

		Colliery Locomotives [8]
		Coventry Colliery [10]
		Daw Mill Colliery [5]
		Griff Colliery [14]
		Haunchwood Colliery [8]
		Newdigate Colliery [40]

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