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Post by smshogun on May 20, 2015 8:08:15 GMT -5
No, different, but close together; they blocked off the inset for Piper and just used Waterloo level for a time and they blocked this off also, it just left the upcast shaft with Waterloo level.
Let me explain. There were about four shaft insets which was one to each level and an upper and lower Waterloo level.
All insets were eventually blocked off due to airflow and the fact that Moorgreen coal faces were going out under Hucknall, and only the lower Waterloo level remained and was called/renamed Blackshale. To get to the blackshale seam you went across the pit bottom run and turned left onto a manrider, from here it gradually went downhill as the seam dipped and they followed it, near the bottom you had the "knife edge" where the manrider road suddenly dropped steeply and you went from Waterloo seam into Blackshale seam on the same roadway; it was a 60' drop in 90' length of roadway, so it was steep and an experience the first time you rode the manrider.
As Moorgreen had an adit you could ride the belts to any seam or run up any of many of the parallel drifts.
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