Colliery and wagonway, Northumberland and Durham coalfield, c 1845.

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Oil on canvas painting by W Wheldon, showing a cable wagonway returning empty wagons to the mine on the Northumberland and Durham coalfield. In the foreground, two miners are walki ng home after a shift at the coalface, and in the background are the pithead and coking ovens. The collieries of Northumberland and Durham produced a vital contribution to the energy supplies necessary for the trade expansion of the 1840s and 1850s. Show more