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Old 12-06-2013, 09:59 AM
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Default Newburgh Colliery and Broomhill Overlays

Ok, here are the overlays for Broomhill Colliery and Newburgh Colliery with Radcliffe on too. If you look at the South West corner of the Newburgh map or the North East corner of the Broomhill map you can still see the shadow of the old track bed (I labelled it as the Amble Branch line but I don't think it is...someone out there will know) running through the field!

I included an image of that too, incorrectly labelled and all!

* Please note, just found out that the Newburgh zip is too large, I'll have to upload at a later date when I have found a way to make it smaller.
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Old 12-06-2013, 10:10 AM
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Default Track bed.

That was the colliery railway which ran from Broomhill through Radcliffe to Amble, it was joined at two places by lines from Newburgh and Hauxley collieries along it's length.
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Old 12-06-2013, 01:56 PM
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The two fields in question and the one immediately across the road were never opencasted. Rumour has it that at the south east corner of the field to the left of the road there was a drift uncovered headed north towards and under the farm. In addition the drag line uncovered three full tubs of coal near the surface on the drift incline. Anyone confirm this and the drift in question?
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Old 12-06-2013, 06:59 PM
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The two fields in question and the one immediately across the road were never opencasted. Rumour has it that at the south east corner of the field to the left of the road there was a drift uncovered headed north towards and under the farm. In addition the drag line uncovered three full tubs of coal near the surface on the drift incline. Anyone confirm this and the drift in question?

Is it the East Togston Drift? we mentioned it in this post:

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/ambl...6&postcount=23
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Old 12-06-2013, 07:03 PM
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1954 map:
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Old 12-06-2013, 07:08 PM
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It probably is, I had a chat with the engineer who kindly let us look at the Radcliffe mine plans this afternoon. The opencast lads had the coal but he thinks the tubs may still be down there as it was under the field which was not dug up when they went down the incline and found them. He is also making an attempt at tracking down the opencast survey photos mentioned in another thread as well.
Excuse the pun! but he is a mine of information, telling me about the dragline uncovering the drift at Chevington at the outset and going down the steps into the first area below the surface, elf and safety would not like that sort of thing now!

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Old 12-06-2013, 07:19 PM
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Interesting to see a few fields left intact!

Here's the disused Newburgh Colliery from that 1954 map. There was a short terrace of houses there too - "Sea View" - looks like four houses on that map.
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Old 28-06-2013, 11:07 PM
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always wondered where Newburgh was, cheers
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