Winding engine

The town's replica of Trevithick's Coalbrookdale 1802 locomotive and the newly restored Winding Engine will be among the machines in steam.

The 200th anniversary of the miners' lamp, 160th birthday of Beamish's winding engine, and the contribution of pitman poet Tommy Armstrong will also be marked between now and Sunday.

The 200th anniversary of the miners' lamp, 160th birthday of Beamish's winding engine and the contribution of pitman poet Tommy Armstrong will also be marked between now and Sunday.

The walk is named after a local well known chimney sweep by the name of William Guest, who sadly died in September 1889 trying to access clean water in a winding engine near Haigh Lane.

And the historic winding engine will be running on Friday, November 2 at 12pm and 3pm.

I believe my grandfather Jack was among the men at the pit who operated the steam winding engine for the colliers on their long drop to the coal seams.

Learn, too, about the history of coal mining in CAERPHILLY and see the Victorian winding engine at work.

Check out Scotland's fine history right up to the present day, with highlights including the largest winding engine, films and more.

Nearby stands the Racecourse Colliery wooden pit-frame offering an evocative landmark, while the surrounding network of buildings and rail track includes a manager's office by a weighbridge and a engine house with a single-cylinder winding engine once used at a pit near Amblecote near Stourbridge.

An introduction outlines the types of buildings one may expect to encounter on the site of an old Cornish mine: not only the pumping and winding engine houses, but also the mill buildings, compressor houses and count houses, together with shafts, adits, leats and tramways.