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4 unusual facts about Hatfield Colliery


Hatfield and Stainforth railway station

From February 2013, services from the station were suspended due to serious trackbed damage caused by a landslip at the nearby Hatfield Colliery.

Hatfield Colliery

In October 2001, Richard Budge, former owner of RJB Mining, took control of the pit, under ownership of his company Coalpower.

It would use Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, by pumping the carbon dioxide gas into depleted North Sea hydrocarbon fields.

The colliery played a starring role in the moving bitter-sweet 1996 film comedy Brassed Off based on the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, filmed in 1995.



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