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Originally Posted by phil
y64 m/g used as tail gate for y65 supplys went up the gate on a peice of belt fixed on a hauler rope, passed all the middler prop's keeping the roof up.
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found this photo on line; an Ashington Coal Company photo, but y64 mothergate was
much worse and soaking wet, down to crawling through small gaps in some parts!
The weight coming on a roadway:
http://www3.northumberland.gov.uk/ca...%206976-16.jpg
Old workings end up like that and are barriered off and nature is left to take its course, but y65/4 was a modern mechanised face that ended in a worse state than that during its operational phase.