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Encyclopedia > Astley Green Colliery Museum

The Astley Green Colliery Museum is a museum in Lancashire, United Kingdom. It operates a standard gauge railway line for demonstration purposes.


External link

  • The Museum website (http://www.agcm.org.uk/index.shtml)





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Astley Green Colliery Museum (380 words)
In the heart of the village stands Astley Green Colliery Museum which, but for the foresight of Lancashire County Council and several leading figures within the community, would have suffered the same fate as the other collieries in the area, total demolition.
Apart from the steam winding engine and headgear the museum houses many exhibits, not least of which is the collection of 28 colliery locomotives, the largest collection of its type in the United Kingdom.
The coal seams at Astley Green are very deep and overlain by 100 feet of wet and unstable ground.
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