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Post by bulwellbrian on Jun 22, 2011 13:25:16 GMT -5
I have noticed that almost all contributors are mining men, but I haven't found anything about what happened to the coal once it came up the shaft or drift.
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Post by John on Jun 22, 2011 13:55:45 GMT -5
Cliftons went next door to feed the boilers at the North Wilford Power Station.
Cotgrave's met a similar fate on the Merry go Round train to a large power station.
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Post by shropshirebloke on Jun 22, 2011 14:10:06 GMT -5
Our's (Granville, Shrops) mainly went by merry go round to Ironbridge power station about 5 miles away, although quite a bit went for landsale as house coal.
A few miles away at Lea Hall in Staffs (where quite a few of the lads went after Granville closed in 1979), the coal was fed directly to the neighbouring power station via a conveyor over the railway.
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Post by Wheldale on Jun 22, 2011 16:09:50 GMT -5
Wheldale and Kellingley collieries sent some of their coal by barge.
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Post by dazbt on Jun 23, 2011 2:30:44 GMT -5
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Post by dazbt on Jun 23, 2011 2:38:30 GMT -5
One use of Welsh anthracite was as a part of water filtration systems, exported to and used in many countries throughout the world and if I recall correctly much of it to Saudi Arabia.
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Post by Wheldale on Jun 23, 2011 5:32:57 GMT -5
What's the difference between coal and gravel for a filter? I believe Betws sold a lot of their product as filter material.
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Post by dazbt on Jun 23, 2011 5:41:07 GMT -5
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Post by bulwellbrian on Jun 23, 2011 10:57:54 GMT -5
The market for coal changed significantly from nationalization to the 1990's, as the house coal market declined because of smokeless zones, the railways turned to diesel trains and gas works were repaced by natural gas. There was a big increase in coal to power stations.
The lost markets were those with the better prices.
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Post by bulwellbrian on Jun 23, 2011 13:04:08 GMT -5
I wouldn't think that proportionaly much welsh anthracite went to non combustion uses, most was for domestic boilers & stoves.
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Post by dazbt on Jun 23, 2011 13:47:06 GMT -5
I wouldn't think that proportionaly much welsh anthracite went to non combustion uses, most was for domestic boilers & stoves. I couldn't swear to it but, I believe that the during the last 4 or 5 years of production from Betws the majority of its output went for 'conversion' to a filtration system company, I recall that some sort of processing company set up a factory in Ammonford purely using Betws output, especially the ultimate quality Peacock seam anthracite. I could be wrong ........... I usually am !! |
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Post by dazbt on Jun 23, 2011 13:54:20 GMT -5
One third (or more) of Maltby colliery output is used for converting to high quality metallurgical coke at Monkton Coking plant at Royston near Barnsley.
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Post by shropshirebloke on Jun 23, 2011 16:16:44 GMT -5
I wouldn't think that proportionaly much welsh anthracite went to non combustion uses, most was for domestic boilers & stoves. I know that after it became a co-op Tower Colliery marketed their anthracite as "Stovesse" - Stovesse Two was superb in roomheater stoves - I wish I'd got a few tons in the coalshed! They also marketed it for filtration purposes, but I've got no idea what the relative market shares were. |
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Post by bulwellbrian on Jun 24, 2011 4:40:26 GMT -5
If I remember correctly the NCB produced Anthracite as Stove Nuts, Stovesse Nuts, Beans, and Grains and the fine stuff as Anthracite Duff.
Stove Nuts and Stovesse were for stoves Beans & grains for gravity fed boilers.
The Anthracite came from opencast as well as deep mines. There is probably still some Anthracite opencasted in South Wales.
I didn't know that Tower produced anthracite. I thought that most of its output went to Aberthaw power station.
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Post by shropshirebloke on Jun 24, 2011 5:27:07 GMT -5
They appear to have worked a variety of different types of coal at different times and from different seams. As well as the coal for Aberthaw they also produced high grade coking coal and the anthracite already mentioned.
After the worker buy-out the company was known as Goitre Tower Anthracite Ltd.
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Post by bulwellbrian on Aug 15, 2011 10:04:59 GMT -5
I was looking at a DVD on driving a steam loco on the North Norfolk Railway when the question was asked where did the coal come from, the answer was Daw Mill colliery in Warwickshire.
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Post by mineruk on Aug 16, 2011 13:34:02 GMT -5
I remember the 5 quarter at Kimblesworth which was used for household it was a very good househole coal. The coal lorries used to arrived at 6, 30 am waiting for the for the coal, to be mined out of the dirft that was at 8,30 am
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