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  1. BOWHILL ON TOP

    Date released
    Apr 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345825
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Bowhill Colliery’s reorganistion station. Continues the story of Bowhill Colliery, Fife, modernisation (as featured in Mining Review 7th Year No 3). Looks at the changes on the surface...

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  2. Yorkshire: SAFETY FAST

    Date released
    May 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345827
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the Seckar man-riding invention at Haig Drift mine, Yorkshire. Show the man-riding in operation which saves miners a 50 minute walk. NCB Commentary - Under this pleasant Yorkshire countryside...

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  3. LEDSTONE LUCK

    Date released
    Jun 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345830
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: re-organized haulage at Ledstone Luck colliery, Yorkshire. NCB Commentary - Ledston Luck is a pit that’s been reborn. Closed down during the war, to-day it has been successfully reorganised...

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  4. NEW LINE

    Date released
    Dec 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345854
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Electrification of the Wath-Manchester railway line NCB Commentary - Near Doncaster the railway sidings at Wath serve over 50 collieries in the area. Here is the starting point of a newly...

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  5. ENTENTE CORDIALE

    Date released
    Jun 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345874
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: visit of French Coal Board delegation to Britain NCB Commentary - At Victoria Station, London, the night ferry train pulls in with a deputation of distinguished French Coal Board Officials. The...

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  6. UNDERGROUND

    Date released
    Aug 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345884
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI Summary - underground signalling for controlling coal trains at Betteshanger. NCB synopsis: At Betteshanger Colliery a new signalling system is in operation for controlling coal trains. NCB Commentary -...

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  7. LINK-UP

    Date released
    Jul 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345921
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: new level tunnels under the mountains at Hafodyrynys colliery NCB Commentary - In the narrow valley between Crumlin and Pontypool stands Hafodyrynys mine. Here big plans are taking shape. Rail...

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  8. SMALL COAL

    Date released
    Sep 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346058
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the unique small gauge Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, a user of local Kent coal, is seen going through its paces NCB Commentary - In recent months Mining Review has brought you stories of...

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  9. NEW SLANT

    Date released
    Nov 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346065
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a diesel railway solves the problem of getting coal from a new Welsh mine set in a valley too narrow to hold its surface installations NCB Commentary - In the narrow and beautiful Vale of Neath...

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  10. FIREDAMP

    Date released
    Mar 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346164
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: methane, the fire-damp feared as a cause of underground explosions, being drained by pipes and put to good use, including the first railway locomotive to be driven on methane

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