Return to Big K - Headstock Tour - January 2016
Introduction:
For Part 1 Click Here
In part one of my Kellingley Report we took a look around the Bath House and Lamp Room, before moving on to a quick teaser showing the bottom of No.1 Tower. In this report we'll be taking a detailed look at the inner workings of No.1 & No.2 towers.
Re-visited again with @Raz & @ACID- REFLUX
Pictures:
It's straight into the action with this one as the detailed introduction and history in available in part one, please use the link provided at the top of the introduction section to navigate to part one.
No.1 Tower:
No.1 Tower was in control of the movement of men and equipment from surface level to the shaft bottom. It's this tower that we can access and begin our tour from. The above picture taken from the connecting corridor between No.1 Tower and the Lamp Room.
Bottom of the lift in No.1 shaft located at the bottom of No.1 Headstock.
Relay Stations can be seen at either sides of the lifts in the above photo (Blue Huts) in the below picture we take a look inside them. These huts would relay information to the men manning the East and West Winders up the top of the Headstock.
And a closer look at their control Panels...
In explore refreshments...
Shovels...
A quick look at the Battery Locomotive and Stock before we move up the headstock...
Underground operations haven't quite seized yet, the recovery of cabling and other valuables is clearly still on going as can be seen in the truck on the right.
Let's head upstairs then...
No.1 Tower Winding House:
British Thompson Houston Equipment can be found throughout the winding house...
For Part 1 Click Here
In part one of my Kellingley Report we took a look around the Bath House and Lamp Room, before moving on to a quick teaser showing the bottom of No.1 Tower. In this report we'll be taking a detailed look at the inner workings of No.1 & No.2 towers.
Re-visited again with @Raz & @ACID- REFLUX
Pictures:
It's straight into the action with this one as the detailed introduction and history in available in part one, please use the link provided at the top of the introduction section to navigate to part one.
No.1 Tower:
No.1 Tower was in control of the movement of men and equipment from surface level to the shaft bottom. It's this tower that we can access and begin our tour from. The above picture taken from the connecting corridor between No.1 Tower and the Lamp Room.
Bottom of the lift in No.1 shaft located at the bottom of No.1 Headstock.
Relay Stations can be seen at either sides of the lifts in the above photo (Blue Huts) in the below picture we take a look inside them. These huts would relay information to the men manning the East and West Winders up the top of the Headstock.
And a closer look at their control Panels...
In explore refreshments...
Shovels...
A quick look at the Battery Locomotive and Stock before we move up the headstock...
Underground operations haven't quite seized yet, the recovery of cabling and other valuables is clearly still on going as can be seen in the truck on the right.
Let's head upstairs then...
No.1 Tower Winding House:
British Thompson Houston Equipment can be found throughout the winding house...
Winding gauge...
One of the main internal winding wheels...
Electrical Diagrams...
A few messages from the ex-workers...
Winding Motors...
No.2 Tower:
Before we head off a couple of pics from the bottom of No.2 Tower showing the conveyors where the coal would have risen to the surface...
And a couple from coal prep that where taken as we made our way out...
And that's all for this one, I may return with this one been on my door step but this will be the last report I'd imagine.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the pics!
TAW
And a couple from coal prep that where taken as we made our way out...
And that's all for this one, I may return with this one been on my door step but this will be the last report I'd imagine.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the pics!
TAW
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