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The Lane End Colliery opened at the end of the 18th century and operated until 1893. There were four shafts and one was used for pumping water using submerged electric pumps until relatively recently. Today the remains of the Cornish type enginehouse and chimney base can still be found amidst the ever increasing woodland. This view is towards the bob wall across the shaft capping.

The Lane End Colliery opened at the end of the 18th century and operated until 1893. There were four shafts and one was used for pumping water using submerged electric pumps until relatively recently. Today the remains of the Cornish type enginehouse and chimney base can still be found amidst the ever increasing woodland.

A remarkable survival is this twenty arch viaduct that once carried the wooden waggonway from Lane End Colliery to the Calder at Horbury Bridge. The actual date of construction is uncertain but the evidence suggests that this section was constructed in 1790-93. It was later converted to an edge railway of gauge 3ft 9ins and was presumably abandoned when Lane End Colliery closed in 1893.