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54 relations: Abersychan and Talywain railway station, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Beeching cuts, Big Pit Halt railway station, Blaenavon, Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, Blaenavon Ironworks, Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway, Carbon monoxide, Coal mining, Coal preparation plant, Contraband (coal mine), Conveyor system, Drift mining, European Route of Industrial Heritage, Great Western Railway, Gwyn A. Williams, Health and Safety Executive, Heritage Lottery Fund, Heritage railway, Industrial heritage, Industrial Revolution, London and North Western Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Manic Street Preachers, Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway, Mining accident, Mining in Wales, Museum, Museum of the Year, National Coal Board, National Coal Mining Museum for England, National Treasures – The Complete Singles, Newport Docks, Newport, Wales, Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, Pontypool Crane Street railway station, Questia Online Library, Rebreather, Rhondda Heritage Park, Rhymney, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, South Wales, South Wales Argus, South Wales Coalfield, South Wales Coalfield Collection, Torfaen, Torfaen County Borough Council, UK miners' strike (1984–85), Waenavon railway station, ..., Wales, World Heritage site, World War II, 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Expand index (4 more) »
Abersychan and Talywain railway station
Abersychan and Talywain railway station served the west of Abersychan village in the Welsh county of Monmouthshire.
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Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, formerly the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, is a Welsh Government sponsored body that comprises seven museums in Wales.
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Beeching cuts
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.
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Big Pit Halt railway station
Big Pit Halt railway station is a railway station on the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway heritage line, adjacent to Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon, Wales.
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Blaenavon
Blaenavon (Blaenafon) is a town in south eastern Wales, lying at the source of the Afon Lwyd north of Pontypool, within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent.
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Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, in and around Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, was inscribed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000.
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Blaenavon Ironworks
Blaenavon Ironworks is a former industrial site which is now a museum in Blaenavon in Wales.
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Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway
The Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway was a railway line in South Wales, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, originally built in 1866 and immediately leased to the London and North Western Railway to transport coal to the Midlands via the Heads of the Valleys line.
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Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is slightly less dense than air.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Coal preparation plant
A coal "washer" in Eastern Kentucky A modern coal breaker in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania combines washing, crushing, grading, sorting, stockpiling, and shipping in one facility built into a stockpile of anthracite coal below a mountain top strip mine A coal preparation plant (CPP; also known as a coal handling and preparation plant (CHPP), coal handling plant, prep plant, tipple or wash plant) is a facility that washes coal of soil and rock, crushes it into graded sized chunks (sorting), stockpiles grades preparing it for transport to market, and more often than not, also loads coal into rail cars, barges, or ships.
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Contraband (coal mine)
Contraband in coal mines means items which not allowed to be taken underground in a coal mine because if there is firedamp about they may start a fire or explosion.
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Conveyor system
A conveyor system is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another.
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Drift mining
Drift mining is either the mining of an ore deposit by underground methods, or the working of coal seams accessed by adits driven into the surface outcrop of the coal bed.
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European Route of Industrial Heritage
The European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) is a network (theme route) of the most important industrial heritage sites in Europe.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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Gwyn A. Williams
Gwyn Alfred "Alf" Williams (30 September 1925 – 16 November 1995) was a Welsh historian particularly known for his work on Antonio Gramsci and Francisco Goya as well as on Welsh history.
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Health and Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare, and for research into occupational risks in Great Britain.
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Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.
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Heritage railway
A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.
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Industrial heritage
Industrial heritage refers to the physical remains of the history of technology and industry, such as manufacturing and mining sites, as well as power and transportation infrastructure.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.
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London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)It has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR.
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Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh rock band, formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Caerphilly and consisting of James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals, lead guitar), Nicky Wire (bass guitar, lyrics) and Sean Moore (drums, percussion, soundscapes).
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Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
The Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway, also known as the Heads of the Valleys line, was a railway line which operated between 1860 and 1958 between the Monmouthshire town of Abergavenny and the Glamorgan town of Merthyr Tydfil in South East Wales.
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Mining accident
A mining accident is an accident that occurs during the process of mining minerals.
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Mining in Wales
Mining in Wales provided a significant source of income to the economy of Wales throughout the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
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Museum
A museum (plural musea or museums) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.
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Museum of the Year
The Museum of the Year Award, formerly known as the Gulbenkian Prize and the Art Fund Prize, is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the United Kingdom for a "track record of imagination, innovation and excellence".
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National Coal Board
The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom.
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National Coal Mining Museum for England
The National Coal Mining Museum for England is based at the site of Caphouse Colliery in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
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National Treasures – The Complete Singles
National Treasures – The Complete Singles is a compilation album by the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 31 October 2011.
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Newport Docks
Newport Docks is the collective name for a group of docks in the city of Newport, south-east Wales.
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Newport, Wales
Newport (Casnewydd) is a cathedral and university city and unitary authority area in south east Wales.
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Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway
The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway (Rheilffordd Pont-y-pŵl a Blaenafon) is a volunteer-run heritage railway in South Wales, running trains between a halt platform opposite the Whistle Inn public house (famed for its collection of miners' lamps) southwards to the town of Blaenavon via a two-platform station at the site of former colliery furnace of the Big Pit National Coal Museum.
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Pontypool Crane Street railway station
Pontypool Crane Street railway station served Pontypool in the Welsh county of Monmouthshire.
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Questia Online Library
Questia is an online commercial digital library of books and articles that has an academic orientation, with a particular emphasis on books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences.
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Rebreather
A rebreather is a breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide of a user's exhaled breath to permit the rebreathing (recycling) of the substantially unused oxygen content, and unused inert content when present, of each breath.
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Rhondda Heritage Park
Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Rhondda, South Wales is a tourist attraction which offers an insight into the life of the coal mining community that existed in the area until the 1980s.
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Rhymney
Rhymney (Rhymni) is a town and a community located in the county borough of Caerphilly in South Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW; Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru), established in 1908, is a Welsh Government sponsored body concerned with the archaeological, architectural and historic environment of Wales.
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South Wales
South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.
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South Wales Argus
The South Wales Argus is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Newport, South Wales.
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South Wales Coalfield
The South Wales Coalfield (Welsh: Maes glo De Cymru) is a large region of south Wales that is rich in coal deposits, especially the South Wales Valleys.
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South Wales Coalfield Collection
The South Wales Coalfield Collection (SWCC), established in 1969 was an attempt to preserve the documentary records of the mining community in South Wales at that time when over one hundred coal mines had been closed since nationalisation and such records were in danger of being destroyed.
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Torfaen
Torfaen (Tor-faen) is a county borough in Wales within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.
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Torfaen County Borough Council
Torfaen County Borough Council is the governing body for Torfaen, one of the Principal Areas of Wales.
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UK miners' strike (1984–85)
The miners' strike of 1984–85 was a major industrial action to shut down the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures.
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Waenavon railway station
Waenavon railway station, also known as Waen Avon, was a station on the Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway in South East Wales.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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1926 United Kingdom general strike
The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted 9 days, from 3 May 1926 to 12 May 1926.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pit_National_Coal_Museum
