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Roachburn Colliery
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| Location: | Brampton 10½ miles [17 km] NW of Alston |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 86, OL43) NY616597, 54° 55' 53" N, 2° 35' 55" W |
| Opened: | 1893 |
| Closed: | 1908 |
| Pits: | Air Shaft, locn: (Sheet 86, OL43) NY615597 |
| Pumping Shaft, locn: (Sheet 86, OL43) NY617598 | |
 Shaft details for Pumping Shaft |
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| Owners: | 1893 - Thompson & Sons |
| Output: | 1896 - Coal: Household. |
| 1902 - Coal: Household. | |
| Employment: | 1896 - 146 (80 below, 66 surface) |
| 1902 - 343 (258 below, 85 surface) | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Roachburn Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1912 - Little Limestone seam abandoned |
| Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Roachburn Colliery |
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Description
Roachburn Colliery, near the site of an older colliery which had worked the rise coal, is a comparatively new place and lies adjacent to Messrs. Thompson and Sons' private railway which extends from Brampton Junction on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to Lambley Station on the Alston branch railway. Three hundred persons were employed underground in the various shifts, and the daily output was about 290 tons. The coal worked lies under land owned by the Earl of Carlisle.
At Roachburn Colliery there are four shafts communicating with the seam. One of these shafts, 14 feet in diameter and 43 fathoms deep, is downcast for air, and is traversed by two cages. Another shaft, 9½ feet in diameter, in close proximity is upcast for air, and is surmounted by a fan. The remaining two shafts are a downcast for a rise section of workings and pumping shaft for the rise feeders.
Mines Inspectors Report into the 1908 Accident
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None Found
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
Armstrong, William, 18 Sep 1911, aged 43, Pump Minder, fell from cage | ||||||
Bainbridge, Walter, 16 Oct 1908, aged 41, Deputy, fall of roof stone while drawing timber | ||||||
Bell, Thomas, 07 Feb 1911, aged 43, Locomotive fireman, run over by waggon | ||||||
Gill, Robert William Armstrong, 29 Dec 1908, aged 37, Boiler Fireman, while walking to his work along the Colliery railway on a stormy morning was knocked down by a locomotive | ||||||
 |  | Hilliard, Matthew, 28 Jan 1908, aged 53, Back Overman, inrush of clay, sand, moss and water [More information ...] | ||||
| | Pattinson, Robert, 28 Jan 1908, aged 35, Deputy Overman, inrush of clay, sand, moss and water [More information ...] | ||||
Teasdale, Thomas, 14 Feb 1911, aged 58, Waggonman, fell in front of wagons | ||||||
| | Wharton, James William, 28 Jan 1908, aged 21, Hewer, inrush of clay, sand, moss and water [More information ...] | ||||
| 8 names found | ||||||
If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.
For those names marked
the text of the Mines Inspectors report into the incident is available online. Click on the
icon to display the report.
Those names marked with ,
were killed in a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have
images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque.
Click on the symbol
next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.
more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Roachburn Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Roachburn Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672)
- 1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Newcastle District (No. 2) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- Mines Inspectors Report into the 1908 Accident (Cd. 4155)
- An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910
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Related Links:
| On this site | |
| | Newspaper articles |
| | Awards for Bravery |
| | Mines Inspectorate report into the 1908 inundation which led to the closure of the colliery |
| | Images in the Memorial section for the 1908 accident where 3 lives were lost |
