From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The headstocks at Clipstone Colliery. Row of cottages in Fackley, serving Silverhill Colliery, near Teversal. The subject of several planning applications, they still stand like a beacon on the skyline. It initially provided a service of four trains each way between Mansfield and Alfreton via Mansfield Woodhouse, Tevershall and Tibshelf, taking about 40 minutes from end to end. Ironically, long after retirement, he emigrated to Australia, and was surprisingly well-received.

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Teversal, Silverhill & Sutton Collieries has members. Discussions, Pictures & Videos Image may contain: train, sky and outdoor. Image may contain: train. Memories of Teversal Colliery - (Page 3) for a bus the directions to the training office, he directed me across some railway tracks to a really dirty two. ) at Teversal Colliery loco-shed on 24 May An NCB workman's 'Paddy Train' comprising a ex-L&NWR built bogie coach.
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On the left is a reproduction of period posters of his fights on a Hucknall mural-of-fame hiding a derelict building, classy! Authenticate this comment using OpenID. View heading South along the railway towards Newstead.

Despite being fully equipped with a building and platform, the Great Northern station only ever carried unadvertised workmens' trains and seaside excursions. They were therefore renamed.

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Victorian brick-built terraced houses appear seemingly out of nowhere, at first hidden from view amongst the small, grassy hills and these days often quite distant from any other indicator of civilisation but which, when built, were next to a mine, a railway, a canal, a processing factory — true one-industry villages. It is nice to see that some of the abandoned fields have been transformed into wilderness trails. This work at an early age around obviously meant developing upper body strength, especially in the arms, which served his future cricketing career well. There were two stations in Teversal, one built by the Midland Railway on a line running south—north from Whiteborough to Pleasley West, the other by built the Great Northern Railway at the end of a one-mile branch line westwards from Skegby. Silverehill_Colliery Photo would be credited to you… cheers Chris. The ex-Midland line bridged the ex-GNR line in Teversal and the stations were fairly close to each other, the ex-Midland station being on the higher level. This article concerns the ex-Midland railway station on the line from Tibshelf and Whiteborough to Pleasley.

Row of cottages in Fackley, serving Silverhill Colliery, near Teversal. While coal and rail Of course it's all pretty much gone now. Bentinck. These include: the sites of several collieries now restored as country parks; along the Silverhill Trail, past the remains of Teversal train station, there is a bridge.

Way back in John and George Crompton sunk the first mine shaft in Butcherwood at Teversal; the colliery that grew from this became.
Such an interesting history of the area — who would guess from those lush green fields!

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Through traffic was rendered impossible from when the line North from Pleasley Colliery to the junction with what is now the Robin Hood Line closed. This whole area would have been railways — both goods and passenger lines passed through here; in the foreground the footpath was the main Great Central Railway line taking people from Nottingham to Sheffield, whilst on the right of the image would have been a whole mass of freight railways mainly serving Bentinck Colliery coal mine.

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After nationalisation in the early British Railways had a policy of renaming stations where confusion over names could occur, typically in towns and villages where two or more stations existed. In terms of the community, for many years after closure there was no real replacement work — many of the areas around Ashfield now rank high up in governmental indices for benefit claimants, long-term sick, and child poverty. Namespaces Article Talk. Despite being a small mining town nowhere significant, Kirkby-in-Ashfield had three railway stations. Through traffic was rendered impossible from when the line North from Pleasley Colliery to the junction with what is now the Robin Hood Line closed. 3Teversal Memories They were therefore renamed. Row of cottages in Fackley, serving Silverhill Colliery, near Teversal.

JP Houfton invited the Mansfield Volunteer Training Corps to Fountain Dale, his By March30 per cent of the men from Silverhill Colliery had enlisted.

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The Colliery Training College (CTC) – an important centre for artisan and mining skills training in Emalahleni, Mpumalanga – has been part of.
Villages and towns sprung up all over to serve these mines and the associated industries.

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After the colliery closed the line became redundant and was subsequently lifted. Photo would be credited to you… cheers Chris. SK Edwalton Plumtree Widmerpool Upper Broughton. He was one of the leading boxers of the early Victorian era — boxing in those days being bare-knuckle and with no prescribed time-limits, ending when one boxer was knocked out.

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As the station remained open for goods it was renamed "Teversall Manor" in to avoid confusion with the obscure ex-GNR terminus station nearby. The gap between the bowler and the batsman is exactly a cricket pitch. Nottingham Carrington Street Kegworth Hathern. Video: Teversal colliery training Review 35th Year No. 4 (1981) Such an interesting history of the area — who would guess from those lush green fields! In terms of the community, for many years after closure there was no real replacement work — many of the areas around Ashfield now rank high up in governmental indices for benefit claimants, long-term sick, and child poverty.