WRITHLINGTON GROUP TRAMWAY AND COLLIERIES
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- Continuing the exploration of the Somerset coalfields, next stop is the Writhlington (with an R) tramway this includes upper and lower Writhlington Collieries and Foxcote with Braysdown colliery thrown in.
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I'm a really old bloke, spent much of my life there, I know every inch of the place..... been living in Barcelona for too long. Bloody hell I miss all the green, gurt miss it I do. Thanks … I could smell it for sure.
I believe the concrete building is an explosives store for the mine. There's an earlier example in the middle of a field on the hill above Middle Pit. They were always some distance from the main colliery for obvious safety reasons
Thanks i didn't visit the one at middle pit, but I found the one at Camerton on the hill.
Hello! Thank you for showing me a nice video! It's great shots! Very nice nature view! It's great! I like it! Very interesting! Thank you for sharing! Have a nice Sunday!
thank you
Thanks for documenting all this stuff. Fascinating, but also inducing a certain melancholy.
Great video mate.
Very interesting, I love this part of the country, looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Thanks for sharing.
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In regards to the bunker structure could it be a dynamite store maybe
Concrete bunker possibly a place to store explosives for the mine?
Related to Riddle, Hobbs, Ashman, Horler, Parfitt, Moore plus many others - Job Riddle a casualty in 1888 I think.
I think the rounded bunker type building would have been for storing ammunicion for the Pill Boxes at Lower Witherington. It is just too well built to for general storage.
Thanks that an interesting idea
Yes, definitely a magazine for the pill boxes. It's not a mine explosives store.
Explosives shed. Safe storage before taking underground for blasting.
I tried to walk the track bed to Foxcote colliery yesterday but must have got diverted on the way. I didn't get onto the track bed where you did but continued on and came to the track bed futher onI came to a sharp turn that I took as the sharp curve and walked up what appeared to be an incline but I came to a quarry area and couldn't find my way on from there so turned back. I have been checking your video again to see where I went wrong. There is one point where I can't work out exactly what you did (At 19:10) to get up to the incline so would probably get stuck there once again. However, I hope to have another go, if not this year the in the Spring.
What I can gather it looks as if the coal trains shuttled between Writhlington to the base of the incline then returned. Not going up the incline. They will have ha another loco at the top that would have taken trains on to the Coal depot. The the shed and inspection pit would have been for the locomotives being serviced before returning to Writhlington and/or as booked for servicing. I enjoyed the day, starting from visiting the Braysdown colliery site and following the incline to Writhlington and another good look around the colliery site. Also checked out where the road bridge between Shoscombe and Writhlington was. Sadly you can just make it out through the dense overgrowth. This would have made the track bed walk more interesting if it had been kept as the official walking path but expect it was diverted because the land owners up at Shoscombe (Barn area) didn't want people, bikes and Horses so close to their properties. To see this bridge it is just a short walk from the Writhling Colliery site. There is a wooden gated entrance to a footpath on the north side ad yu can just make out the wooden fence on the opposite side that blanks off the opening onto the bridge. Through the branches you can make out the path on the top of the bridge. Just a few feet towards Writhlington you can just make out the arch and depth of the bridge but probably a better chance during the Winter months. I completed my day with a visit to the Radstock Museum which was very interesting. It was nice to see the model of Writhlington Colliery and railway area. There is a very good video of it on You Tube but it is now on display at te museum ad well worth a visit.
To get to the area of the colliery i diverted of what i believe to be the incline and scrambled up the spoill heap to the left, yes i walked all the way following the incline and came to a kind of cliff face so yes i agree locos only worked the flat portion.
Its amazing that so little is left of lower writhlington as being one of the last to close.
Im so glad you had a great day out it is certainly a interesting subject the old industries of the area, i look forward to visiting the Radstock museum. I hope to get out again soon after my 14 days isolation.
@@Towpathtraveller1693 Sorry to hear of your isolation. I look forward to your next video. The Braysdown incline was interesting. It appears to have left the mine as a double track, down to where it goes under the country road then became a single track half way down and then went to double track again to the sidings. It would be interesting see more details as to how this incline was worked. Likewise what was at the bottom of the incline where the wagons got onto the mainline sidings. Is it possible that the wagons came down singly but side-ways so they dropped onto the sidings ready for shunting! If not there would have had top be a way of turning the wagons at the bottom.
Any record pf motive power on the tramway, or was it all Horse Traffic.
Steam locos were used in the later days, I will check my books and get back to you
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