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Old 15-12-2016, 12:49 PM
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Default Ferneybeds Colliery

I don't know whether anyone else has noticed but in the Public Notices section of todays Morpeth Herald (15th December) someone has applied for planning permission to re-open Ferneybeds Colliery. The application includes remove the existing cap, new winding gear, fans and two tunnels under the Mile Road. If there's any old sinkers out there that fancy coming out of retirement then you'll never get a better chance!!
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Old 15-12-2016, 02:24 PM
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That's an interesting one!

Don't know if these links will work:

https://publicaccess.northumberland....ANS-712970.pdf


https://publicaccess.northumberland....LAN-712973.pdf

[index of docs if those have failed]


Now if this was China they'd be in full production for Christmas. Here? not a snowball's chance in hell. Imagine the effect on house prices. Heaven forbid!!


Meanwhile I pay £500 for 1.5 tons of coal. I've shoved that much off a conveyor belt underground so I could get a good lie down.
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Old 15-12-2016, 02:40 PM
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I don't know what Alan and Jumpyshore will think about having a Pikrose hauler as a shaft winder.

But...he's the engineer so I'm sure it is do-able- and has been done in the past.

I have a picture....not one of these?



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Old 15-12-2016, 02:42 PM
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That advert from 1954. Those haulers looked exactly the same last time I was underground in 2004. [perhaps they were from 1954!]
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Old 15-12-2016, 03:58 PM
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That new downcast shaft will be twenty odd metres from the Mile Road.

Is this not the coal Banks is after? I sense a plot...
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Old 15-12-2016, 08:04 PM
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Not sure what the plan sketch in the pikrose advert is supposed to be? Is it being used to build a pack in the waste/goaf ? I remember something similar, a slusher we called it or 'slusher bucket' operated by something hydraulic about the size of a pikrose. Scooped up stones and rammed them into a pack at the face end.

Anyone know what I'm talking about??
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