Ginny Road, Rowley Colliery

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313936

Reference identifier

EBU-U01-M111-140-1

Title

Ginny Road, Rowley Colliery

Place

Burnley

General notes

The image is of an engraving which forms the frontpiece of a report, is taken from a photograph, of the endless chain surface road at Rowley. Taken from a mining engineering book, dated 1868. No title information is given.

From the book;
The Surface Ginny Road from Rowley Colliery to Burnley 1868.
This ginny road takes coals from Rowley Colliery, 1,980 yards in a straight line, to a coal depot and the canal in town of Burnley. The line is laid, with the exception of two lengths of timber gearing, one over a river, with the other to raise the line to the level of the canal, on the open field, and is the best specimen of undulating ginny road in the district.
The "weight" here, as at Hapton Valley, goes downhill, at an average gradient of 1 in 68, the difference of level between the highest and the lowest point of the line being 145 feet.
It was chosen to experiment upon, to show how little power was required to drive a ginny road, under the circumstances mentioned above. It properly exhibits the minimum costs where power is required at which coals can be lead in this district. The tubs used hold 6cwt. and are generally placed 25 yards apart, but this distance is not regularly attended to.
The engine for driving this ginny is at the Rowley end of the line and the "Onsetter" or "Ginny Tenter" who has the handle of the engine close to him, regulates the speed of the engine according to the quantity of coals coming to hand from the pit.
The general speed of the tubs is about 3.1 miles per hour, and rather more than 400 tons a day are led.
The engine driving the ginny is similar to that at Hapton Valley, and to that used for winding and hauling at Rowley. It also worked a small ginny for taking props etc. onto the heapstead, also one screen and a dredger for lifting the single screened small coals. It was not performing one half of the work it was capable of doing.

The engravings (here 1 0f 2) which form the frontpieces of this report, are taken from photographs of the endless chain surface road at Rowley Colliery. One is a view of the chain road form Rowley Colliery showing the appearance of the tubs and chain on the hillside, the other shows the driving pulley, together with the shafting and mitre gear at the Rowley end of the ginny road.

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Medium

Engraving

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Year of image

1868

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Subjects

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