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2 unusual facts about Peelwood Colliery


Peelwood Colliery

The colliery was linked to the company's other pits, Combermere and Cleworth Hall by a mineral railway which had exchange sidings with the Tyldesley Loopline.

After 1888 an exchange siding was constructed next to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's line from Manchester to Wigan, providing access for the company's coal traffic.



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