In common with many collieries on the Lancashire Coalfield, women, known as " Pit brow lasses " were employed on the surface to sort coal on the screens at the pit head.
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In 2000 to coincide with the new uniform, the band adopted the now familiar Pit Head Wheel emblem and renamed the band to Highley Colliery Band, to reflect the mining heritage of its home village.
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All onsite shunting and movement between pit head and the coal washing plant was undertaken by privately owned shunters, the traffic for which greatly increased after the consolidation of coal extraction of the three pits to Bickershaw.
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The station has 4 units of 210 MW, 3 units of 500 MW and 2 units of 500MW . Durgapur and Padmapur Collieries of WCL are the pit head mines from where the coal is transported by Ropeway.
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In September 2016, the levelized tariff in US $ for solar electricity has fallen below 2.5 cents / kWh which is cheaper than the fuel cost incurred by pit head coal based power plants in India.
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Discover giant machines such as the pit head winding gear and a Cornish beam engine, fantastic structures like the powerhouse and a vast brick kiln as well as coal wagons, a steam crane and much more besides.
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The Government and British Coal were easing the miners concerns at the pit head level and in their news sheets, saying their pension holiday would not affect the long term finances of the miners final salary pension payments.
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There were some 600 or 700 men and boys below and it took 2 hours to safely evacuate them all, using a neighbouring shaft . According to a report in the Tamworth Herald the pit head working were almost entirely destroyed.
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The concept of dividing the country in to regions by clubbing few states, emerged in seventies to envisage pit head super thermal power stations nearer to coal mines and to supply the generated power to far flung areas by high voltage transmission lines.
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Pit head baths, a canteen and medical centre designed for the Miners'Welfare Committee by architect C . Kemp, were built in 1935 36 at a cost of over ?4, 000 ( ?| 0 } } as of ).
