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Roachburn Colliery

Location:	Brampton 10½ miles [17 km] NW of Alston
Map Ref:	(Sheet 86) NY616597, 54° 55' 53" N, 2° 35' 55" W
Opened:	1893
Closed:	1908
Pits:	Air Shaft, locn: (Sheet 86) NY615597
	Pumping Shaft, locn: (Sheet 86) NY617598
	Shaft details for Pumping Shaft
Owners:	1893 - Thompson & Sons
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household.
	1896 - Coal: Household.
	1900 - Coal: Household.
	1902 - Coal: Household.
	1905 - Coal: Household.
	1910 - Coal: Household.
Employment:	1894 - 61 (37 below, 24 surface)
	1896 - 146 (80 below, 66 surface)
	1900 - 278 (203 below, 75 surface)
	1902 - 343 (258 below, 85 surface)
	1905 - 324 (270 below, 54 surface)
	1910 - 125 (86 below, 39 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Little Limestone Coal
	1910 - Little Limestone Coal
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Roachburn Colliery
Notes:	1912 - Little Limestone seam abandoned
	Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Roachburn Colliery

Description

Roachburn Colliery, near the site of an older colliery which had worked the rise coal, is a comparatively new place and lies adjacent to Messrs. Thompson and Sons' private railway which extends from Brampton Junction on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to Lambley Station on the Alston branch railway. Three hundred persons were employed underground in the various shifts, and the daily output was about 290 tons. The coal worked lies under land owned by the Earl of Carlisle.

At Roachburn Colliery there are four shafts communicating with the seam. One of these shafts, 14 feet in diameter and 43 fathoms deep, is downcast for air, and is traversed by two cages. Another shaft, 9½ feet in diameter, in close proximity is upcast for air, and is surmounted by a fan. The remaining two shafts are a downcast for a rise section of workings and pumping shaft for the rise feeders.

Mines Inspectors Report into the 1908 Accident

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None Found

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Armstrong, William, 18 Sep 1911, aged 43, Pump Minder, fell from cage
						Bainbridge, Walter, 16 Oct 1908, aged 41, Deputy, fall of roof stone while drawing timber
						Bell, Thomas, 07 Feb 1911, aged 43, Locomotive fireman, run over by waggon
						Gill, Robert William Armstrong, 29 Dec 1908, aged 37, Boiler Fireman, while walking to his work along the Colliery railway on a stormy morning was knocked down by a locomotive
						Hilliard, Matthew, 28 Jan 1908, aged 53, Back Overman, inrush of clay, sand, moss and water [More information ...]
						Pattinson, Robert, 28 Jan 1908, aged 35, Deputy Overman, inrush of clay, sand, moss and water [More information ...]
						Teasdale, Thomas, 14 Feb 1911, aged 58, Waggonman, fell in front of wagons
						Wharton, James William, 28 Jan 1908, aged 21, Hewer, inrush of clay, sand, moss and water [More information ...]

						8 names found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

For those names marked the text of the Mines Inspectors report into the incident is available online. Click on the icon to display the report.

Those names marked with , were killed in a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.

Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Roachburn Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Roachburn Colliery

Memorial Images:

Memorial: 1908 Roachburn Colliery Disaster

Credits

Sources:

Mines Inspectors Report into the 1908 Accident (Cd. 4155)
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Newcastle District (No. 2) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910