Coal Mine Explore , West Midlands U.K.

Follow us exploring an abandoned Coal mine , With an old railway tunnel that served as a colliery, Construction began in 1898 on the railway tunnel and it opened in January 1909.

During its use the tunnel was prone to collapsing and attempts were made to strengthen the tunnel using steel hoops but it finally closed in 1922 and in 1983 a private company
purchased the land and began to use the drift mine to mine coal.

This went on for a few years but in 1991 the colliery closed,the land was sold and the adits were sealed..

At its peak, the British coal industry employed over a million men and was one of the most important industries in the UK. Transport, power and related industries were all heavily reliant on coal. Even in the mid-1960s,
British Rail was still running on coal power (steam). In the 1970s. Coal was Britain’s lifeblood, and without it, the economy could come to a standstill.
The decline of the British coal industry started after the
First World War. But was accelerated after the Second World War, and in particular, after the miner’s strike of 1984...
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