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Original Text (Annotation: EPW035952 / 1145589)
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The lower terminus of the tramway which connected the Hayes with Oldnall Pit and Beech Tree colliery. The tramway was 2 tracks, one for loaded tubs descending, one for empties returning to the Colliery. The tubs were cable hauled. I do not know if the system was gravity operated or if there was a winding house at the Colliery. In the late 1940s Beech Tree Colliery was operated by the National Coal Board and at this time coal was loaded into standard gauge railway wagon at the Hayes and then despatched via sidings to Stourbridge Junction. In 1931 it may be that the whole of the mined coal was consumed in the brick kilns near to the Hayes. There was a third coal mine in the system, the Hayes Colliery which had a tramway descending to the Hayes. Adjacent to Park Lane there were additional railway sidings. '