DougCornwall
15 years ago
Noticed a tipping mine truck on ebay if anyone looking for one to put their flowers in.
Just search for hudson tipping tub. 99p and no bids when I looked but has an unknown reserve.
Its over the border in England somewhere, Warwickshire wherever that is. Probably very nice area.
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Moorebooks
15 years ago

There were some small private drift mines in Warwickshire no all gone

Mike
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15 years ago
Looks very similar to the one that is gradually disintegrating in Wheal Jane.

Not sure where Warwickshire is, bit further up than Bodmin, I reckon 😉
Ty Gwyn
15 years ago
The first dram on the e-bay list,that came from Pantygasseg smallmine,this mine was located up on the mountain above Llanhilleth,Abertillery direction.
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15 years ago
Warwickshire right hand down a bit from Birmingham. Had a reasonable coal mining background, and I worked in a couple of local pits in the 70s. Daw Mill is still going I believe.

There's actually a tipping dram sitting in an old quarry (in 2 bits as body is separate) just off Clements End in the Forest of Dean.
Doesn't seem to belong to anyone, but the wife's threatened me with divorce if I bring it home. Might just be worth it!
Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground.
That's where I'm heading for that's where I'm bound
So follow me down Cousin Jack
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Graigfawr
15 years ago
Collecting full-sized mining equipment when living in suburbia is surely the swift route to divorce. Or in my case when I was a teenager, a swift route to parental discord. For some reason I could not understand, my parents did not like ten yards of 50 inch gauge tramroad (stone sleepers and tramplates) on the back lawn. I always regretted not finding wheelsets to enable me to build a tram as well. Ah! Youthful enthusiasms and follies!

(Collection all dispersed to museums long ago)
james cartwright
15 years ago
I have wanted one of thows for ages shame its so far away otherwise i would go for it.never mined back to bilding my replica Rhymney ironstone tram
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Moorebooks
15 years ago

I am hoping the Shropshire Mines Trust will try an obtain - let us know if you are planning a bid

mike
Morlock
15 years ago
Not a tipping version but there were at least two at Tower, not sure what's still there. 🙂

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Graigfawr
15 years ago
@James: there are published scale drawings of the Rhymney Ironstone Tram in D.M.Rees "Mines, Mills and Furnaces", London: HMSO, 1969, plate opposite p.65.

Oops - just realised from your post on another thread that you already have this drawing.
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