The Plan For Coal ... North Selby Mine. Episode One.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- Today we take a look at a former coal mine which was part of the Selby coalfield.
Selby coalfield (also known as the Selby complex, or Selby 'superpit') was a large-scale deep underground mine complex based around Selby, North Yorkshire, England, with pitheads at Wistow Mine, Stillingfleet Mine, Riccall Mine, North Selby Mine, Whitemoor Mine and at Gascoigne Wood Mine; all coal was brought to the surface and treated at Gascoigne Wood, being distributed onwards by rail. The primary purpose of the pit was to supply coal for electrical power generation; much of it was used in the nearby Aire valley power stations.
Mining peaked in 1993-4 at 12 million tonnes a year. The mines were acquired by RJB Mining in 1997 after the privatisation of the coal industry; loss of financial subsidy, geological problems, and low UK coal prices made the pits unprofitable by the 21st century. Closure was announced in 2002, and mining completely ceased by 2004.
Planning permission was granted for two 7.315 metre (24 feet) diameter shafts to be sunk at North Selby Mine in 1977, and Cementation Mining Ltd began sinking in 1978. In order to get them through the water-logged Bunter Sandstone and into the Upper Permian Marl, the shaft were frozen from the surface to a depth of around 280 metres. It took until 1986 to complete the shafts to a depth of 1043 metres with an inset to the Barnsley seam at 991 metres. Mining began in January 1991.
Because of its depth, North Selby was prone to extreme floor heave in the roadways serving faces etc. This and other geological problems led to the mine being closed and its take merged with Stillingfleet Mine in July 1997.
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In 1992 I entered 2 shafts of the Selby Coal as a visitor. We were also allowed to visit the Förderberg with the 2 conveyor belts. It's sad to see what's left of the mining! What remains are the memories and the pride of having been a miner! ⚒️
Worked there in 1989/90 it seemed to take ages coming up that shaft at knock off time good depth them shafts Cementation were said to have sunk the sumps deeper at own cost to break a world record, seems like yesterday it was all brand new when I was there.
I worked for a company that had previously carried out all the landscaping when this pit was built...I remember they had some photographs around the office of the pit when it was nearing completion of construction works, & it was a beautiful piece of modern industrial development, the extensive use of brickwork to all buildings really paid off & I think North Selby won some building & architectural awards...& rightly so. 👌
Thanks for sharing this, I have lived in the area forever and when the Selby pits were operating they did look quite discreet and modern....
By that brought some memories back.Stockyard there still.Spiral area and pit shafts.I was studying this lastnight.I can see people walking about it was a good place to work.
The Mine completely transformed the area , for good or ill . Changed from a quiet backwater into an industrial one . Huge influx of miners from South Yorks . and elsewhere . Explosion of housebuilding .
It's disgusting the price we are now paying for electricity in the UK when we still have more coal below ground that we could be using for at least the next 50 years
Apparently using imported coal creates less co2. Everyone’s got smart meters, if it doesn’t become too expensive to use electricity I reckon we’ll get rationing
@benchippy brits gonna be shafted that’s for damn sure - co2 nonsense.
I went down North Selby on many occasions. I worked for a company that supplied quite a bit of equipment to the Selby Complex. North Selby was the deepest of the Selby mines; it was very warm. It never really hit its production targets due to geological problems. The interesting thing about the Selby complex was that each of the shaft mines was designed to be almost identical at the surface. If I remember correctly, the shaft access was attached to the main buildings, so it would have been very close to where the Canteen was in your video. Very nostalgic.
Quite a narrow guage track there, looks like a model railway with the loop. Massive water tank there. Great to know fishees have moved in
Yes, all the Selby mines had this rail setup , shame they didn't leave any rolling stock !
The irony is that if the coal was being produced now it would sell abroad at huge prices.
The tanks were still standing in 2014/15 when i first visited the site, not sure why they cut them down
Deffo do some more mine vidz but, stay SAFE-C
Worked here in 1990/1. Installing a steel cord conveyer belt and dinting . I heard that the people of Escrick didn't want to call it Escrick mine, so they called it North Selby instead.It was an ok place towork at.
I often pop in there if I'm out that way on the Mt Bike. I'll take some fish food next time!!!
We went there the other year, it's not changed much but more overgrown even this time of year. It was being cleared at the time to be made into a caravan park.....apparently. roads upto it are not clear as they were when we went.
I was last there in 2013 , I put a couple of photos in the video, the main entrance building still standing and the site having security!
10m tonnes a year......🤔
Miners strike for 2 years..
And Australia is following suit.. stupidity closing these mines ..
German symbol lol should be rusian..
First coal came off from H801s in 1990 I started at North Selby January 1991
I worked there to develop it a white elephant