Rufford Colliery Rainworth 1993 please subscribe thankyou

A view around Rufford Colliery Pit Top shortly before closure.Showing the coal being discharged fron No3 shaft skip plant
DC generators used to power the winders N02 and N03 N01 shaft to the tophard was already capped and filled .Also views in the power house N03 winder the fan house also the compressor built 1922 electrified 1947 installed in the old N01 engine house .Electric shop fitting shop and baths .Lincoln Cathedral was visible on the horizon from N03 winder on a clear day 30 miles / 48km

[@paulnolan1352]

Great video, loved the big twin stage piston compressor and how Tidy everything looked. Looked like a 510 Commander in the sandpit.

[@Red4Dead13]

Hello from Hopo! As he used to work here. 😁😎 Great video.

[@brentdiamondbrown3517]

its seems along time ago

[@wishfix]

I worked at Rufford never really looked around the pit top, spent my time underground.
107s Hazel
109s Hazel
Seam closed.
155s
122s
6s
Blackshale dev
And others.
😁 Happy days.

[@mccloryjim]

Great vid, I always wondered what it looked like, iused to cart red sand out of there in the mid to late 90s for enemix, I love looking round old derelict workings imaging how it was and who worked there and what they did, thanks for sharing, I looked in the past for Rufford pit but nothing came up

[@derricktrevor3664]

pro trick: you can watch series at flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching lots of of movies during the lockdown.

[@jasearturo9181]

@Derrick Trevor definitely, been using Flixzone for since december myself :D

[@mccloryjim]

Ps was the red sand anything to do with the pit or just a separate entity, thanks agian

[@brentdiamondbrown3517]

When the sand was extracted the sand pits were used as lagoons for the slurry from the coal preperation plant

[@chriscars3578]

I worked there with a contact company. Then worked on the closer of it disgusting that everything was left under ground 😡

[@IanLanc]

@A P Yep! Fully agree with you there mate, as for salvaging everything out a pit, would still be doing it to this very day, wasn't economical to try and get everything out, many roadways accessible, but not big enough or wide enough to get stuff out, at Shirebrook Colliery there was 'Load all Dumps' ....Big low profile diesel powered vehicles, just left there, only way to get it out would be to ''back rip'' the roadways to enable the loader out, would cost millions to do that, so left as is instead, drained of all fluids, same with Dowty Chocks, just how on earth do you get them out ? You can't, so they stayed there, maybe in years to come such mines will be excavated again and they will look in awe how we/you and every other miner worked in such terrible conditions, It'll never happen in our lifetime, but in a few hundred years they'll be doing it, just like they are doing now in recovering things from WWI & WWII & old tin & lead mines.

[@stevewilkin3977]

And then if they did recover the equipment there was no onward market for it

[@project182r3]

Another great video Brent, thanks for sharing

[@brentdiamondbrown3517]

Steve Elliott cheers Steve more to come when I can find them

[@brentdiamondbrown3517]

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[@brentdiamondbrown3517]

Another video of Bilsthorpe posted hope you like it