Site of Baddesley Colliery Railway
Description of this historic site
The site of a railway serving Baddesley Colliery. It was constructed during the Imperial period, and is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Site of Baddesley colliery railway marked on OS map of 1887.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
For 20 years, from 1940, my home was just beside this railway, at Waste Hill, no more than 30 yards from the track, – fortunately it didn’t run at night. There were two engines hauling coal on the line, named by the then owner, Sir William Dugdale, after his sons, John Robert and William Francis. The latter engine is still in existence, and is at the Steam Museum at Blooms Nursery, Bressingham, Diss, Norfolk. There were also traces of two disused spur lines, one to serve a pit in Grendon wood, the other running via a tunnel onto Baddesley Common, to serve pits in the Baddesley Ensor village area All these pits are long gone.
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