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Gypsum Mines: Gypsum Mines in England, Long Meg Mine, Kirkby Thore, Cotehill Railway Station, Scropton Tramway

Gypsum Mines: Gypsum Mines in England, Long Meg Mine, Kirkby Thore, Cotehill Railway Station, Scropton Tramway


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Chapters: Gypsum Mines in England, Long Meg Mine, Kirkby Thore, Cotehill Railway Station, Scropton Tramway. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Long Meg Mine is a disused gypsum mine just north of Little Salkeld, Cumbria in the area known as Cave Wood Valley. It was operated between 1880 and 1976. The Long Meg Plaster Company Ltd. was established in 1880, driving an underground drift upon which operations commenced in 1885. In 1886 a standard gauge extension line was connected to the site from the Settle-Carlisle Railway (a distance of around 0.35 km). The workforce in this year is recorded as being 12 (all Surface), the name of the mine Long Meg Drift and agent A.K.Busby. In 1902 the workforce is recorded as being 26 (12 Underground and 14 Surface). By 1914 however this figure had dropped to 6 (4 Underground and 2 Surface) and the mine was abandoned on an unknown date in 1914/1915. The operator at this time was the Carlisle Plaster and Cement Company Ltd. The mine was re-opened in 1922 for the extraction of anhydrite by the Long Meg Plaster and Mineral Company Ltd. This was purchased in 1939 by the British Plaster Board Ltd. (now known as British Gypsum). Until its closure in January 1976 its workforce fluctuated between 12 and 29 (4 and 22 Underground; 4 and 18 Surface). The 1 millionth tonne of anhydrite was shipped to the plant in Widnes on May 20 1959 and before closure over 5 million tonnes were extracted. The mine owned several locomotives used to shunt carts between the mine, the plaster mill and the Settle-Carlisle Railway junction. A 0-4-0 Barclay locomotive named "W.S.T." (after the plaster company's deputy chairman William Steuart Trimble) that was delivered to the site on the 10th June 1954 and was transferred in 1969 now resides at t...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=874498


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158692927
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 20
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 45 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158692927
  • Publisher Date: 16 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Gypsum Mines in England, Long Meg Mine, Kirkby Thore, Cotehill Railway Station, Scropton Tramway
  • Width: 229 mm


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