Colliery Lines

Newdigate Colliery: misc_newd295a

Close up of image 'misc_newd295' showing Newdigate Colliery's coal screens which could handle loading coal into both road and rail vehicles. When the colliery first opened all of the coal would have been dispatched by train whereas from the 1950s onwards a significant amount was by lorry. Lorries could serve local markets much better than railways which increasingly had to rely on servicing large scale users such as power stations etc.

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