noun
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An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
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A facility that supplies coal.
Examples of colliery in a Sentence
The laying out of a colliery, after the coal has been won, by sinkings or levels, may be accomplished in various ways, according to the nature of the coal, its thickness and dip, and the extent of ground to be worked.
In a large colliery where the shafts are situated near the centre of the field, and the workings extend on all sides, both to the dip and rise, the drawing roads for the coal may be of three different kinds - (r) levels driven at right angles to the dip, suitable for horse roads, (2) rise ways, known as jinny roads, jig-brows, or up-brows, which, when of sufficient slope, may be used as self-acting planes, i.e.
One of the most important branches of colliery work is the management of the ventilation, involving as it does the supply of fresh air to the men working in the pit, as well as the removal of inflammable gases that may be given off by the coal.
The quantity of air required for a large colliery depends upon the number of men employed, as for actual respiration from zoo to 200 cub.
Meyer at the Shamrock colliery in Westphalia, where a body of men are kept in systematic training for its use at a special rescue station.
There have been several instances of this being done in the fiery pits in the Barnsley district, notably at the great explosion at the Oaks colliery in 1866, when 360 lives were lost.
The different elements making up the drawing arrangements of a colliery are - (r) the cage, (2) the shaft or pit fittings, (3) the drawing-rope, (4) the engine and (5) the surface arrangements.
Many colliery managers, however, prefer to have only two opposite guides, as being safer.
In Belgium and the north of France flat ropes of aloe fibre (Manila hemp or plantain fibre) are in high repute, being considered preferable by many colliery managers to wire, in spite of their great weight.
In one of the best-known examples, the Zollern colliery in Westphalia, the Koepe system is used, the winding disk being driven by two motors of 1200 H.P. each on the same shaft.
The surface arrangements of a modern deep colliery are of considerable extent and complexity, the central feature being the head gear or pit frame carrying the guide pulleys Surface which lead the winding roes from the axis of the it arrange= g P P to the drum.
At Cadeby Main colliery near Doncaster in 1906, 3360 tons were drawn in fourteen hours from one pit 763 yds.
A convenient digest of the evidence classified according to subjects was published by the Colliery Guardian newspaper in three quarto volumes in 1905-1907, and the leading points bearing on the extension and resources of the different districts were incorporated in the fifth edition (1905) of Professor Edward Hull's Coal Fields of Great Britain.
This subject he was led to study by the experience of a colliery engineman, who noticed that he received a sharp shock on exposing one hand to a jet of steam issuing from a boiler with which his other hand was in contact, and the inquiry was followed by the invention of the "hydro-electric" machine, a powerful generator of electricity, which was thought worthy of careful investigation by Faraday.
In order to get a practical knowledge of mining he worked for a few months as a miner at the Wiethe colliery.
Barry owes its seaport to the determination of a number of colliery owners to secure an alternative port to Cardiff, with an independent railway to it from the coalfields.
It was here that, on his invitation, James Watt constructed a model of his steam-engine, which was tested in a now disused colliery.
The colliery, which was opened in 1807, has frequently been the scene of dreadful accidents, notably on the 23rd of October 1821, when 52 lives were lost.
North British or Caledonian railway or both, are Bothwell Park, Carfin, Chapelhall, Bellshill (pop. 8786), Holytown, Mossend, Newarthill,Uddingston (pop. 7463), Clydesdale, Hamilton Palace, Colliery Rows and Tennochside.
The industrial population is employed in large collieries in the vicinity; and here, on the 7th of September 1893, serious riots during a strike resulted in the destruction of some of the colliery works belonging to Lord Masham, and were not quelled without military intervention and some bloodshed.
The coal exported is brought from the Kaiping colliery to the east of Tientsin; its output in 1885 was 181,039 tons and in 1904 28,956 tons.
The district is rich in minerals, and has large collieries, and a colliery company's institute; iron goods are manufactured.
In 1847 Lyon Playfair informed him of a spring of petroleum which had made its appearance at Ridding's Colliery at Alfreton in Derbyshire, and in the following year he began to utilize it for making both burning and lubricating oils.
Brakpan, the largest colliery in South Africa, lies midway between the places named.
He imagines that the group might continue into the future, with generation succeeding generation like a factory or colliery brass band.
Latterly the colliery provided the Ravenscraig Steelworks with coking coal.
The DMCC went on to sink a further colliery, Cadeby Main, in 1889.
Photograph taken at the ceremony to cut the first sod of the Cambrian colliery No 4 Pit.
Adjacent to the former colliery lies the Rugeley Power Station.
Stone corners mark the former entrance to Hemingfield Basin, which served the nearby colliery.
Gelli, on the other hand, is primarily a later, 2nd phase colliery settlement, dating from the late 1870s.
One of the large number of collieries in the district was called the Diamond colliery.
By the late 19th century there were extensive collieries in Talke, mainly belonging to the Talk o ' the Hill colliery Company.
But today, just a single mine, the workers ' co-op Tower Colliery, is still in business.
The checks we had for controlling access into the mine were not embossed with the colliery's name.
A married man of Birch View, Edge Green, Ashton-in-Makerfield who was the colliery fireman.
They are served by an inclined railroad, of standard gage worked by a steam haulage engine of colliery type.
Sinking the downcast shaft (Number 1 shaft) started early September 1924 after the colliery headgear had been constructed.
Mr J.W. Lowe tells me that the colliery was owned by Henry Warrington & Son who also owned an ironworks there.
Every hour through the night, he went round the whole colliery, carrying with him his lamp an ' his little wooden mell.
It is entirely inhabited by miners engaged at the colliery.
It is rare to find an old pitman, who has moved about much from one colliery to another, who is not short-winded.
Some years ago the deceased was a colliery proprietor near Wolverhampton, where he amassed considerable wealth.
A sample of about 30kg of the colliery shale was obtained.
Effects of the cessation of colliery spoil dumping on coastal processes.
He also constructed a tramroad from near Stourbridge to a colliery, for a £ 1,255 fee.
The following year he became a trapper at the Victoria Colliery.
Richard Trevithick, indeed, had in 1804 tried a high-pressure steam locomotive, with smooth wheels, on a plate-way near Merthyr Tydvil, but it was found more expensive than horses; John Blenkinsop in 1811 patented an engine with cogged wheel and rack-rail which was used, with commercial success, to convey coal from his Middleton colliery to Leeds; William Hedley in 1813 built two locomotives - Puffing Billy and Wylam Dilly - for hauling coal from Wylam Colliery, near Newcastle; and in the following year George Stephenson's first engine, the Blucher, drew a train of eight loaded wagons, weighing 30 tons, at a speed of 4 m.
He joined a Methodist society at Burslem, but business taking him at the close of 1800 to the colliery district of Harrisehead and Kidsgrove, he was so impressed by the prevailing ignorance and debasement that he began a religious revival of the district.
Still they fell far short of the requirements of the district for in 1865 the Taff Vale Railway Company opened a dock of 26 acres under the headland at Penarth, while in 1884 a group of colliery owners, dissatisfied with their treatment at Cardiff, obtained powers to construct docks at Barry which are now 114 acres in extent.