IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Ashby Road, COALVILLE, LE67 3LA
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This page details the photographs taken nearby to Ashby Road, LE67 3LA by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (92 Images Found)
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Stephenson Shaft and Coalville Crossing Signal Box, Snibston Discovery Park
Snibston Colliery forms the basis of the Snibston Discovery Park with many of the buildings having scheduled monument status. The signal box has been rebuilt as part of the railway on site, but the winding gear and engine house are original, dating from 1914 with later improvements.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 4 Jun 2006
0.07 miles
2
Snibston Colliery
Now a museum that is to close at the end of July 2015. This is the downcast shaft.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Feb 2008
0.07 miles
4
Snibston Colliery
Just after it had become the Discovery Centre. I'm not sure the public access goes this far anymore.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 5 Jul 1992
0.08 miles
5
Snibston Colliery
This was when it had only just been converted to the Snibston Discovery Centre and the landscape is so typically colliery that's what I'm going to call the category. The modern museum is in the modern building on the left that resembles a furniture warehouse. The day was vile and it shows. I've boosted contrast because it really was flat.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 5 Jul 1992
0.08 miles
6
Snibston Colliery
The tandem headgear is surrounded by scaffolding for extensive maintenance.
I remember inspecting this from a large hydraulic platform in the late 1980s. The structure was severely corroded as little maintenance had been carried out since closure.
Image: © John M
Taken: 7 Mar 2014
0.08 miles
7
Former bus garage, Ashby Road, Coalville
Opened by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Ltd ("Midland Red") in 1925 and closed by Arriva Midlands in 2011, the garage appears to have had its windows replaced and its shutters repainted since 2014 - see Image - and therefore appears to be under new (if anonymous) ownership.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 24 Nov 2018
0.08 miles
8
Detail of former bus garage, Ashby Road, Coalville (1)
Opened by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Ltd ("Midland Red") in 1925 and closed by Arriva Midlands in 2011, this sign almost shows the name of its original owner.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 24 Nov 2018
0.08 miles
9
Snibston Colliery
Now part of the Snibston Discovery Museum that is due to close at the end of July 2015. This was a pit operated by George Stephenson and this tandem headstock is on the upcast shaft and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Feb 2008
0.09 miles
10
Coalville Crossing Signal Box and tandem headgear. , Snibston Discovery Park
The tandem headgear was developed by George Stephenson - of railway fame - to improve safety and productivity; the pit would no longer be dependent on a single shaft for lifting coal or in an emergency. This is one of only two still believed to exist in the UK, and is a scheduled monument. The actual structure is relatively modern, dating from 1942.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 4 Jun 2006
0.09 miles