tarboat's photos with the keyword: wakefield

The mineral railway between Hope and Caphouse Pits of Denby Grange Collieries and the staithe at Calder Grove on the Calder and Hebble Navigation, and the Wakefield and Barnsley Railway, was completed in 1854. The upper sections included four inclines with two steam hauling engines. The No.1 enginehouse held a 36" vertical cylinder steam engine that hauled loaded wagons, two at a time from the Hope Pit. The line then descended towards Denby Grange Pit and the loaded wagons went down under gravity. Today the line of the railway is a road and only the foundations of the enginehouse and the brick chimney remain.

1918 advert for Wakefield based wire rope manufacturers and engineers George Cradock & Co Ltd. They did not manufacture aerial ropeways, but would supply and erect examples from specialist manufcaturers along with their own ropes.

I think that the view of Caphouse Colliery from the roadside has plenty of atmosphere, particularly when it is wet and gloomy like here.

Headgear at Caphouse Colliery.

In the baths building at Caphouse Colliery.

Passageway alongside the lamp room at Caphouse Colliery. The timbers are part of the support for the heapstead.

Erected in 1938, and seemingly unaltered since then, the pithead baths at Caphouse Colliery are now one of the excellent features of the English National Coal Mining Museum.

Headgear from near the baths at Caphouse Colliery.