He worked 300 yards below the pithead surface, uncoupling the chain clips of the waggons that carried the coal up from the mine.
22.
This in conjunction with easy water resource from Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar makes this region an ideal location for high capacity pithead power plants.
23.
The second tippler, located at the western end of the pithead empties via a hopper into a wagon parked on the railway siding.
24.
By 1912 temporary pithead gear was in place : a winch and boiler and a headframe from Charters Towers was installed the next year.
25.
The next morning, the Brigadier has the UNIT troops lay explosives and detonate the whole mine pithead, to the Doctor's fury.
26.
Because the explosion damaged the pit winding gear, it took time to clear the debris from the pithead to allow rescuers to begin work.
27.
On 14 October 2013, the centenary of the disaster, a Welsh national memorial to all mining disasters was unveiled at the former pithead.
28.
In 1939, pithead baths were installed at the mine; it meant miners no longer needed to walk home dirty and wet, risking illness.
29.
Gwyn Prosser describes how Railway Terrace was the first of the new streets in Cwmparc to be built near to the railway leading from the pithead.
30.
The trust erected, and maintains, a memorial on the junction of Hamstead Road and Old Walsall Road ( ), near the former pithead.
